Recruiter, Expert Workforce

Surge AI

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About The Position

Surge is hiring a recruiter to source and recruit experts for its global, distributed workforce—not for corporate roles. These experts contribute to projects that shape how frontier AI models think, and many may not work in AI or be actively looking for this type of work. The recruiter will find and engage these experts, maintain their interest through assessment and onboarding, and focus on bringing in people who complete the process, pass, and perform well.

The recruiter will personally own and execute this work, experiment with sourcing channels, formats, and messaging, and discontinue approaches that do not work. They will communicate honestly with interested experts and skeptics, explain the work and its significance without hype, and answer questions within confidentiality limits. They will identify ways to improve assessment and onboarding completion, make successful searches repeatable through channels, referral loops, and small project teams, and evaluate sources by the quality of work produced rather than sign-ups alone. As the function grows, they will document and teach effective practices and build a recruiting team.

Requirements

• Has repeatedly found candidates in hard-to-reach talent pools using approaches beyond the standard recruiting playbook, and can describe what worked and what failed.
• Changes how work is done as volume grows rather than relying only on adding people.
• Has persuaded people who were not already interested or who were skeptical, while communicating honestly.
• Can speak with domain experts as a peer and explain the relevance of their work to frontier AI without hype.
• Can interpret a recruiting funnel and identify what is working.
• Writes well, with awareness that expert candidates notice the quality of communication.
• Cares about the quality and performance of recruited experts.
• Can challenge an incorrect target profile and support the argument with evidence.

Responsibilities

• Source experts through new channels, formats, and messages beyond standard InMail sequences and job boards.
• Engage experts who may not be interested in AI or who are skeptical, explaining the work and its significance honestly and without hype.
• Speak with domain experts as peers, provide straight answers, and operate within confidentiality limits.
• Keep candidates engaged through assessment and onboarding, and identify what helps them complete those stages and begin work.
• Assess sourcing channels by the quality of work produced, not merely by sign-ups, and prioritize the sources that produce strong experts.
• Turn successful searches into repeatable processes, including channels, referral loops, and small project teams.
• Document effective recruiting practices, teach them, and hire and develop additional recruiters as the function grows.
• Use funnel data to understand what is working and advise when target profiles should change, supporting recommendations with evidence.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed