Assistant Recruitment Manager

About the role

The Assistant Recruitment Manager will own the global technical recruiting function at ActAI, responsible for scaling the engineering and AI teams. This role involves developing hiring strategies, leading critical searches, and partnering with leadership to define hiring standards and processes.

Responsibilities

• Own technical hiring across AI/ML, backend, infrastructure, web, mobile and engineering leadership.
• Build the technical recruiting strategy, team structure, hiring priorities and operating cadence.
• Personally lead searches for critical and senior hires from market mapping through closing.
• Set the standard for candidate quality by evaluating actual technical contribution and relevance.
• Partner with engineering and company leadership to define hiring bars and interview processes.
• Build and coach a high-performing technical recruiting team.
• Use recruiting data to identify bottlenecks and improve hiring quality, speed and conversion.
• Build scalable recruiting processes and talent networks across the US, Europe and Asia.

Required skills

• Technical recruiting
• Software engineering hiring
• AI/ML hiring
• Headhunting
• Team management
• Market mapping
• Candidate assessment

Nice to have

• AI company experience
• AI researcher recruiting
• ML engineer recruiting
• Global talent networks

Qualifications

• 10+ years of recruiting experience with deep experience hiring software engineering, AI/ML or other highly technical talent

About the Company

ActAI aims to build proactive, AI-native applications for users, focusing on high reliability for long-running workflows and real-world task completion. The company seeks to reduce hallucinations and organize life workflows to allow users to focus on meaningful tasks.