Talent Acquisition Manager

DeepRec.ai; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Dinner covered every night in office

Job summary

DeepRec.ai is building its first dedicated recruiter and seeking a founding recruiter to own the talent function from day one. You will design the recruiting motion, build the tracker, and partner directly with the founders to shape hiring across engineering, AI, GTM, CS, and infrastructure.

You will craft interview processes, manage agencies, and close candidates by tailoring narratives to motivations. This is a high-ownership, on-site NYC role with rapid hiring cadence and significant impact.

Qualifications

• 2+ years recruiting or sourcing experience, in-house or agency.
• Fast, hours not days. No chasing required.
• High ownership; you fix or flag problems.
• Strong outbound instincts, comfortable approaching senior people.
• Comfortable building from ambiguity with no playbook.

Responsibilities

• Own recruiting across engineering, AI, GTM, CS, infrastructure, and domain-expert roles
• Source directly, run the full funnel, manage the tracker and weekly reporting to founders
• Design the interview process: scorecards, loops, feedback discipline
• Manage external agencies and hold them to velocity and quality
• Close candidates yourself by tailoring the narrative to what motivates them

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Sourcing

Interview design

Agency/vendor management

Stakeholder management

Job description

DeepRec.ai is retained to support an AI-Native Series A startup looking for a Founding Recruiter.

They're hiring their first dedicated recruiter - no process to inherit. You build the tracker, the cadence, the sourcing motion, and the candidate experience from zero, and you own it. Direct line to the founders from day one.

What you'll do

• Own recruiting across engineering, AI, GTM, CS, infrastructure, and domain-expert roles
• Source directly, run the full funnel, manage the tracker and weekly reporting to founders
• Design the interview process: scorecards, loops, feedback discipline
• Manage external agencies and hold them to velocity and quality
• Close candidates yourself by tailoring the narrative to what motivates them

Who you are

• 2+ years recruiting or sourcing experience, in-house or agency
• Fast. Hours not days. No chasing required
• High ownership. You fix or flag, you don't route around problems
• Strong outbound instincts, comfortable cold-reaching senior people
• Comfortable building from ambiguity with no playbook

How they work

• Fully onsite, five days a week, NYC.
• High intensity, some evenings.
• Minimal layers between you and a decision.
• Real ownership and real accountability from day one.
• Unlimited PTO
• Dinner covered every night in office
• Clear path to leading the talent function as the company scales