Senior Technical Talent Acquisition Partner

About the role

ActAI builds proactive applications for people who are not used to complex prompting, aiming to bring intelligence to conversations, errands, organisation and workflows with minimal to no prompting. As a Senior Technical Recruiter, you will independently own difficult technical searches and hire exceptional engineering and AI talent for ActAI globally.

Key responsibilities

• Own technical searches end-to-end across AI/ML, backend, frontend, mobile, infrastructure and engineering leadership.
• Build talent maps and sourcing strategies for difficult searches across AI startups, technology companies, research organisations and technical communities.
• Headhunt high-quality passive candidates personally, rather than relying on inbound applications.
• Assess technical profiles deeply, understanding what candidates have built and their individual contribution.
• Partner with engineering leaders to calibrate hiring bars, refine target profiles and improve interview processes.
• Manage and close senior candidates through compensation discussions, competing offers and other complex situations.
• Use recruiting data and market feedback to identify pipeline problems and continuously improve search strategy and conversion.

Required profile

• 5+ years of recruiting experience, with substantial experience hiring software engineers and other technical talent.
• Strong track record of independently delivering difficult technical hires through proactive headhunting.
• Good understanding of software engineering disciplines and the ability to evaluate technical profiles beyond company, title and keywords.
• Ability to advise hiring managers using evidence from the talent market rather than simply executing requests.
• High ownership, judgement and execution speed.

Nice to have

• Experience recruiting AI/ML engineers, researchers, distributed systems engineers or senior technical leaders.
• Experience hiring internationally across multiple technical talent markets.
• Experience recruiting for an early-stage AI or technology company.