Associate Manager, Talent Acquisition (Tier 1 Package)

📋 Description

• • Join A1, a pioneering company dedicated to distributing intelligence globally through a proactive AI smart assistant. Our mission is to empower everyday users by integrating intelligence into their conversations, errands, daily organization, and workflows. We are building a sophisticated system designed for high reliability in long-running tasks, maintaining persistent context, and achieving real-world task completion. This advanced system is engineered to handle complex multi-step reasoning, seamlessly interact with a variety of external tools, and maintain operational stability despite the inherent non-deterministic nature of AI models.
• • As an Associate Manager, Talent Acquisition, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our engineering talent landscape. You will be responsible for leading the end-to-end hiring process for critical software engineering functions, encompassing backend, mobile, desktop, infrastructure, and product engineering domains. Your primary focus will be on partnering closely with our founding teams, senior leadership, and engineering leaders to meticulously identify, attract, and secure high-caliber technical talent from around the world. This role demands exceptional judgment, a commitment to speed and efficiency, advanced sourcing capabilities, and a profound understanding of what constitutes engineering talent quality, extending far beyond the superficial review of resumes and brand recognition.
• • Your day-to-day responsibilities will include owning the complete hiring lifecycle for your assigned roles, from the initial intake meeting with hiring managers to the final candidate close. You will be instrumental in building robust talent pipelines from the ground up, employing a multi-faceted approach that includes direct sourcing, leveraging employee referrals, and executing targeted outreach campaigns to passive candidates. A key aspect of your role will be to drive hiring decisions based on clear, quantifiable signals rather than solely relying on subjective interview feedback, ensuring a data-informed and objective selection process. You will proactively manage the recruitment process, ensuring momentum is maintained by removing bottlenecks, diligently chasing feedback from interviewers, and expertly closing selected candidates.
• • Furthermore, you will be empowered to redesign and refine our interview questions, scorecards, and assessment methodologies to systematically elevate our hiring bar and ensure we are attracting the most qualified individuals. You will continuously analyze and improve our recruitment processes, focusing on enhancing speed, quality, and consistency across all hiring initiatives. A significant part of your contribution will involve building and enhancing our employer brand presence through compelling content creation, strategic messaging, and delivering an exceptional candidate experience at every touchpoint. You will also be responsible for managing multiple requisitions simultaneously, demonstrating speed, accuracy, and consistency in your execution.
• • About the Team and Company: A1 operates on the principle that the world's best products are crafted by small, exceptionally capable teams. We foster an environment characterized by high talent density, rapid execution speed, and a strong sense of ownership among our team members. Our core values revolve around a deep commitment to product quality, fostering clear and logical thinking, and prioritizing practical, effective execution. This is a hands-on, dynamic workplace where every individual is expected to contribute directly, operate with a high degree of autonomy, and make sound decisions even when faced with ambiguity. We believe in empowering our team to achieve ambitious goals.
• • In this role, you will have the unique opportunity to significantly impact the growth and success of A1 by building out our core engineering teams. You will gain invaluable experience in technical recruiting at a fast-paced AI startup, developing sophisticated sourcing strategies, and honing your ability to assess engineering talent at a deep level. You will learn to influence hiring managers, optimize recruitment processes for speed and quality, and contribute to building a world-class employer brand. This position offers a direct path to developing expertise in talent acquisition within the cutting-edge field of artificial intelligence, with the potential to grow into a leadership role within the talent function as the company scales.
• • Competitive salary and benefits package
• • Opportunity to work with a talented and passionate team in the AI space
• • Be part of a fast-growing startup with a mission to change the world