Talent Lead, Technical + AI

Crux

2d • $175,000 - $200,000 • Remote

About The Position

We’re looking for a Talent Lead, Technical + AI to help scale our team by leading high-impact hiring across engineering and other critical functions.
This person will play a central role in shaping how we attract and evaluate exceptional technical talent, while also contributing to broader hiring across the company as needs evolve. This role is ideal for someone who combines deep technical recruiting expertise with curiosity about how AI is beginning to reshape recruiting, work, and organizations.
You’ll help us continue building a recruiting function grounded in strong judgment, high talent density, and thoughtful use of modern recruiting tools. Recruiting is a critical function at our company — we view exceptional talent as our biggest advantage. You’ll work closely with leadership to help maintain and evolve our hiring bar as the company grows.

Requirements

• Significant and recent in-market experience recruiting for technical roles (5+ years) , especially engineering, AI engineering, product, design, and other specialized skill areas.
• Experience (2+ years) working in-house within a high-growth technology startup environment.
• Demonstrated experience partnering closely with hiring managers to shape role definitions, candidate profiles, and interview processes — not just executing against existing job descriptions.
• Ability and willingness to flex into cross-functional hiring when company priorities require it.
• Demonstrated curiosity and experimentation with the latest AI tools and recruiting technology, particularly how it can improve recruiting workflows or change how teams work, as well as awareness of risks including bias and how we handle sensitive and private information
• A thoughtful perspective on how AI may influence the skills companies need and how they hire for new roles, both in technical roles and across organizations.
• Strong judgment, communication skills, and the ability to partner closely with leaders and hiring managers.
• A belief that great companies are built by small teams of exceptional people, and a commitment to maintaining a high bar in hiring.
• Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment where ambiguity and roles and priorities evolve, with a willingness to manage full-cycle recruiting for your roles.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical hiring and contribute to hiring across the company (~60% of your time)
• Own full-cycle recruiting for engineering and other technical roles, from role definition through closing.
• Partner closely with hiring managers and company leadership to define role scopes, candidate profiles, and interview processes that identify exceptional talent.
• Build proactive pipelines for high-impact technical roles, including AI/ML, data, and other emerging skill areas.
• Support and partner with recruiting colleagues across additional functions as company needs evolve.
• Help maintain a high bar for talent while ensuring candidates have a thoughtful and professional experience throughout the process.
• Ensure every candidate has a thoughtful, respectful, and well-run experience with our team.
• Shape our approach to how we think about hiring for AI skills across the company/roles (~20% of your time)
• Bring a point of view on how to evaluate and hire for AI-related capabilities, both within technical teams and increasingly across non-technical roles.
• Partner with the People + Talent team and leadership stakeholders to research, identify, and recommend strategies for hiring AI talent across functions.
• Contribute to how we define the skills and profiles that will help the company adapt as AI tools become more embedded in day-to-day work.
• Help evolve our recruiting systems and practices (≈20% of your time)
• Explore and implement tools or workflows that improve sourcing, screening, candidate experience, and recruiting efficiency, leverage AI tooling.
• Research and experiment with emerging AI-enabled recruiting tools and help the team evaluate where they meaningfully improve our process.
• Show measurable results from experiments and tools you build to increase efficiency and reduce toil for the recruiting team.

Benefits

• Healthcare: We cover 100% of premiums for employees with a variety of plans on Aetna (nationwide) and Kaiser (WA and California) and subsidize 70% for dependents (total as a group), if relevant.
• Dental & vision: We cover 100% of premiums for employees and 50% for dependents (each), if relevant.
• Holidays: 10 company holidays per year.
• Paid time off: 20 days per year.
• 401k: We support a 401k account but don't have a matching program set up at this time (typical for an early-stage startup).
• Parental leave: 16 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.
• AI Learning Stipend: Up to $5,000 to learn and build AI skills to help you be effective in your role.
• Work from home allowance: $400 stipend for your home office setup.
• Stock options in a rapidly growing company.

What This Job Offers

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