Lead Technical Recruiter
Remote · USFull-timePosted 1w agoStill listed 1 day ago
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Job overview
The Lead Technical Recruiter will lead ActAI’s highest-priority technical searches, raise recruiting quality across the team, and build the company’s technical recruiting capability. The role focuses on sourcing and closing senior, difficult-to-hire candidates across AI/ML and engineering, partnering with engineering leaders on hiring strategy, and coaching recruiters as ActAI scales.
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Full job description
About ActAI There are over 5 billion users using basic applications today such email, notes, tasks, calendar and they're not AI-native. Our mission is to build proactive applications for anyone in the world, who are not used to complex prompting. We aim to bring intelligence to conversations, errands, organising and workflows, with minimal to no prompting. Our first application is an agent-first mobile communication app. We believe building applications that users use daily for communication, coordination and collaboration needs will help integrate AI into their lives. The net effect is to eliminate misinformation, achieve low coordination costs, enable high quality tasks and collaboration at scale with minimal or little prompting.
About the Role As Lead Technical Recruiter, you will lead critical technical searches, raise recruiting quality across the team and help build ActAI's technical recruiting capability.
What You Will Be Doing
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Lead ActAI's highest-priority technical searches across AI/ML, engineering leadership, backend, infrastructure, web and mobile.
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Build search strategies and talent maps for scarce technical talent across global AI and engineering markets.
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Personally source, engage, assess and close senior and difficult-to-hire candidates.
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Set a high bar for technical profile assessment, ensuring recruiters understand candidates' actual work, technical depth and relevance before progressing them.
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Partner closely with engineering leadership to define hiring profiles, calibrate interview standards and diagnose gaps in the recruiting funnel.
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Coach technical recruiters on sourcing strategy, profile assessment, candidate engagement and closing.
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Review pipeline quality and recruiting data, identify where searches are failing and change strategy quickly.
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Develop repeatable recruiting practices that improve hiring quality and speed as ActAI scales.
What You Will Need
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7+ years of technical recruiting experience, including significant ownership of senior and difficult engineering searches.
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Strong track record hiring high-quality engineers through direct sourcing and headhunting.
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Deep familiarity with technical talent markets and strong understanding of software engineering and AI/ML profiles.
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Ability to distinguish exceptional technical work from strong branding, titles or CV keywords.
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Experience partnering directly with senior engineering leaders on hiring strategy and calibration.
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Demonstrated ability to coach recruiters and improve the quality of their sourcing and assessment.
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Strong judgement, urgency and willingness to remain deeply hands-on.
Nice to Have
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Experience building or leading technical recruiting at an AI company or high-growth technology startup.
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Existing networks across AI/ML and engineering communities.
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Experience hiring across multiple markets including the US, Europe and Asia.
How this job compares
Set against the 488 open Technical Recruiter jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$120–170K/yr302 salary ranges
- US median$58–70/hr52 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 488 open Technical Recruiter jobs across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
- SpaceX32 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 7 years of experience — more than three in four Technical Recruiter postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 432 postings).
- Education
- 49 of the 488 open Technical Recruiter jobs (10%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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