Manager, Recruiting

UniversalAGI

2d•Onsite

About The Position

As our Manager of Recruiting, you'll own one of the most critical functions at UniversalAGI: finding, closing, and nurturing the people who build our foundation models. This is a high-ownership, player-coach role. You'll lead and grow a team of technical and non-technical recruiters, sourcing and coordination, while carrying your own req load and working full-cycle across the hardest searches yourself. You’ll partner directly with the CEO, Hiring Managers, and founding team to translate our headcount plans into a world-class talent engine. This is a rare chance to help build a recruiting team from the ground up at a company moving relentlessly fast.

Requirements

5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with 2+ years directly managing a team of recruiters, sourcers and coordinators.
A track record that spans both technical (engineering, AI/ML, research, or similarly specialized deep-tech roles) and non-technical (GTM, sales, operations, or business) hiring
Experience building or scaling a recruiting function inside a fast-growing startup
Expert-level sourcing chops (LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean/X-ray search, AI sourcing tools, Ashby) and a track record of closing top talent with multiple offers
High agency and ownership - you operate with extreme urgency and bias to action - you don't wait for a playbook, you build one
Strong data fluency: you build and utilize recruiting dashboards to guide team and process decisions, not just track them.
Execution velocity that holds up under pressure - comfortable running multiple open requisitions and a team's pipeline against aggressive targets
Executive-level communication and judgment - you're someone the CEO, founding team, and hiring managers trust with hard calls
Comfortable operating in a high-intensity, in-person, fast-paced startup environment where priorities shift fast

Nice To Haves

Prior experience recruiting for highly technical startups (Seed to Series C) through a hypergrowth phase (0-500+ employees)
Experience recruiting for deeply technical or specialized roles
Have built recruiting infrastructure: ATS setup, interview process design, scorecards, comp bands and beyond from a blank page
An existing network across AI research, deep tech, recruiting, and GTM/sales talent communities you can activate on day one

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and grow a team of technical and non-technical recruiters, sourcers, and recruiting coordinators
Carry your own full-cycle requisition load across technical (AI/ML, research, CFD/physics simulation, engineering) and non-technical (GTM, sales, operations) searches
Own recruiting OKRs and capacity planning: translate hiring plans into team capacity, requisition allocation, and be able to reallocate fast as priorities shift.
Partner with CEO, founding team, and hiring managers to shape role definitions, ideal candidate profiles, and hiring strategy for every open requisition.
Build and protect talent pipelines in the hardest-to-fill niches while staying weeks ahead of demand.
Own the recruiting metrics that matter: pipeline conversion, time-to-hire, sourcing effectiveness, offer acceptance.
Set the standard for candidate experience across every discipline, from first outreach through offer and close
Build UniversalAGI's reputation as the destination for top talent across AI/ML, research, CFD/physics simulation, engineering, GTM, sales, and operations.
Coach your team and hiring managers alike on sourcing strategy, technical/business fluency, and closing