Talent & Operations

Squad•New York City, NY

2d•$110,000 - $150,000•Onsite

About The Position

Squad is using AI to accelerate how the world's best talent finds the right problems to solve. The bottleneck in recruiting isn't sourcing. It's data. Candidate data is poor and getting noisier (self-reported, outdated, now AI-inflated). But recruiters hold high-quality, real-time signal because they talk to candidates every day. That's why companies spend >$800B/year on recruiting. The problem is this signal is fragmented and unusable at scale. Squad's first product aggregates signals from hundreds of recruiters and uses AI to instantly match their candidates to roles, giving companies unprecedented reach without the usual pain of managing external partners. We give recruiters a business-in-a-box that lets them earn more while doing what they do best: building relationships and knowing their candidates deeply. In return, we get proprietary data. Our AI structures signal from real recruiter-candidate context that doesn't exist on LinkedIn or resumes. Every submission, rejection, every hire feeds a self-improving AI matchmaking engine. We believe the future of recruiting is human authenticity paired with AI efficiency. Great recruiters have a critical role to play, and Squad is built to empower them. Long-term, Squad becomes the infrastructure layer for how talent meets opportunity. The biggest bottleneck to innovation is getting the right people working on the right problems. Hiring is still slow, manual, and full of noise — and we’re building the infrastructure to fix that. Squad is a generational opportunity to rethink how recruiting works. We have: Exponential growth: Squad supports hundreds of candidates, recruiters, and employers every day, and we’ve grown rapidly with a very small team. An AI-first business model: Our approach is enabled by AI and becomes more durable as foundation models improve, with network effects compounding over time. Top-tier backing: We’ve raised significant funding from leading investors to build an exceptional team of operators, recruiters, and product builders. Our number-one priority is scaling to meet demand while keeping quality high. This role sits at the heart of that: you’ll shape how recruiting is actually run on Squad — both in the product and in our day-to-day operations.

Requirements

3–7+ years of full‑cycle recruiting or embedded talent experience in high‑growth environments (startup, RPO, or agency partnering closely with fast‑moving teams).
Proven track record turning ambiguous or “hard‑to‑fill” roles into successful hires and rescuing underperforming pipelines.
Strong sourcing and screening chops, plus a sharp eye for candidate quality and fit across multiple signals (experience, skills, stage, context).
Experience partnering directly with founders or senior hiring managers, pushing back when needed and guiding them toward realistic, high‑signal processes.
Excellent written and verbal communication; you’re clear, candid, and can synthesize feedback from candidates, clients, and recruiters into crisp insights.
High bias toward action: you move quickly, experiment, and are willing to get into the weeds of candidate review and process details.

Responsibilities

Own the review of candidates for roles on Squad, increasing the matchmaking quality
Catch strong profiles that may have been misclassified by the system
Diagnose “weak” pipelines: analyze where drop-offs happen and identify issues in role definition, messaging, process, or comp.
Run intake and calibration conversations with hiring managers (internal and selected clients) to clarify must-haves and tradeoffs.
Capture clear, structured feedback from candidates and clients so we can continuously tighten shortlisting criteria and processes.
Turn your daily recruiting workflows into concrete product feedback on search, matching, workflows, and automation opportunities.
Partner with Product and Engineering to test new features, pressure-test matching logic, and surface real-world edge cases.
Help design and refine tagging, candidate review flows, and internal dashboards so the team can make better decisions, faster.
Develop and maintain internal playbooks for candidate review, pipeline rescue, and client launch so others can replicate what works.
Share best practices with our external recruiter network, helping them get more value from Squad and improving their submissions over time.