Overview Inworld seeks a Recruiting Lead to partner with founders and leadership to scale talent across engineering, research, and business domains. You will own senior searches end to end, shape role definitions, and build pipelines with passive candidates. You'll leverage data and AI tools to optimize hiring, elevate processes, and mentor the recruiting team. This role combines strategic recruiting with hands-on execution in a fast-moving AI startup. Your impact spans hiring quality, speed, and candidate experience to fuel growth.
Compensation / Benefits- bonus
- equity
- benefits
- hybrid work
- base salary range $160,000 - $260,000 (plus)
Responsibilities- Own critical senior searches end to end as executive partner to founders
- Design search strategies with hiring managers and leadership
- Build deep pipelines for AI, engineering, research, and business talent
- Use data to monitor funnel health and hiring progress
- Apply AI tools to automate workflows while keeping personalization
- Improve recruiting processes, interviewing quality, and candidate experience
- Represent Inworld as a credible ambassador for mission and culture
Key requirements- 8+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience
- Experience hiring in AI/ML, infrastructure, or research environments preferred
- Track record of closing senior talent in competitive markets
- Fluency with recruiting data and metrics-driven strategy
- Hands-on fluency with AI assistants and AI-native recruiting stack
- Experience partnering with executives and hiring managers
- Experience in retained executive search or as strategic partner is a plus
- Ability to operate with ownership in a fast-paced startup
- ownership and initiative
- stakeholder management
- clear communication
- AI/ML recruiting experience
- AI-native sourcing and automation tools
- data-driven hiring analytics
