Manager, Technical Talent Acquisition

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential AI-native technology company that is building the next generation of intelligent applications. Our client is focused on bringing AI capabilities to everyday productivity tools used by billions of people worldwide, with an emphasis on real-world task completion and reliable, long-running workflows.

As Manager of Technical Talent Acquisition, you will own the global technical recruiting function and be accountable for building the engineering and AI teams required to scale this rapidly growing organization. This is a hands-on leadership role based in the United Kingdom, requiring someone who can both build strategy and personally close critical senior hires.

Responsibilities

• Own technical hiring across AI/ML, backend, infrastructure, web, mobile, and engineering leadership functions globally
• Build and execute the technical recruiting strategy, team structure, hiring priorities, and operating cadence required to meet aggressive company hiring goals
• Personally lead searches for critical and senior hires, from market mapping and headhunting through assessment, offer negotiation, and closing
• Set the standard for candidate quality, ensuring evaluation focuses on actual technical contribution, complexity, and relevance rather than superficial credentials
• Partner directly with engineering and company leadership to define hiring bars, target profiles, interview processes, and final hiring decisions
• Build and coach a high-performing technical recruiting team, reviewing pipelines and continuously raising the quality of sourcing, assessment, and candidate management
• Use recruiting data and market intelligence to identify bottlenecks, challenge ineffective searches, and continuously improve hiring quality, speed, and conversion
• Build scalable recruiting processes and talent networks across the US, Europe, and Asia while maintaining execution excellence

What We're Looking For

Required qualifications:

• 10+ years of recruiting experience with deep expertise hiring software engineering, AI/ML, or other highly technical talent
• Proven track record building and leading technical recruiting for a high-growth technology company while remaining hands-on with critical searches
• Strong understanding of engineering and AI talent markets, with the ability to assess the substance and relevance of highly technical profiles
• Demonstrated success hiring senior engineers, technical leaders, and other scarce talent through proactive headhunting
• Experience building, managing, and raising the performance of technical recruiting teams
• Ability to work directly with founders and engineering leaders, challenge assumptions, and translate company priorities into executable hiring plans
• Strong judgement on talent, high execution speed, and clear accountability for hiring outcomes

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience leading technical recruiting at an AI company, AI-native startup, or high-growth technology company
• Direct experience recruiting AI researchers, ML engineers, applied AI engineers, and senior engineering leaders
• Strong existing networks across global AI and engineering communities
• Experience building technical teams across multiple markets, particularly the US, Europe, and Asia

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our talent team will review your profile and conduct an initial screening to understand your background and recruiting philosophy. If there's a strong match, we'll submit your profile to our client for consideration. Please apply exclusively through our platform—direct contact with the client is not part of this process.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process based on experience and market rates for this leadership role.

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