Founding Recruiter - APAC

About the role

HappyRobot builds infrastructure for enterprises to build and orchestrate autonomous AI workforces, backed by investors including a16z, Y Combinator, Base10, Prysm Capital and Eurazeo. As Founding Recruiter for APAC, you will partner directly with Sales leaders and hiring managers to build the Go-to-Market organization in the region, focusing on Account Executives and roles across Sales Development, Customer Success, Partnerships, Sales Engineering and Revenue Operations.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with Sales leadership to build and scale the regional GTM organization
• Own full-cycle recruiting for commercial roles, especially Account Executives
• Build pipelines across Sales, SDR/BDR, Customer Success, Partnerships, Sales Engineering and Revenue Operations
• Understand the GTM motion, ideal candidate profiles and talent needs at each stage of regional growth
• Advise Sales leaders on talent availability, candidate profiles, compensation and market dynamics
• Sourcing and engaging high-performing commercial talent, including passive candidates
• Own the candidate journey from first outreach through interviews, offer and close
• Build talent networks across the regional startup, SaaS and technology ecosystem
• Improve sourcing strategies, recruiting processes, interview frameworks and reporting
• Support additional generalist and business-critical hiring as needed

Required profile

• 5+ years of recruiting experience, with significant experience hiring commercial and GTM talent
• Track record recruiting Account Executives and other Sales roles, ideally in SaaS, technology or high-growth companies
• Experience partnering with Sales leaders to turn growth plans into hiring strategies
• Strong knowledge of the regional commercial talent market and its companies and talent pools
• Ability to own searches end-to-end with significant autonomy
• Comfortable in an early-stage environment with fast-moving priorities
• Deep interest in AI, technology and building a category-defining company

Required skills

• Excellent sourcing skills and ability to engage passive candidates
• Stakeholder management, communication, judgment and candidate closing

What we offer

• Competitive salary plus equity in a high-growth startup
• Healthcare, dental and vision coverage
• Ownership and autonomy of projects