Talent AI Operator

About the Role

A fast-growing, pre-seed AI-powered recruiting platform is looking for a Talent AI Operator to join their San Francisco team. This company has built autonomous AI agents that handle end-to-end recruiting — sourcing, outreach, candidate qualification, and interview scheduling — at marketplace scale. They're now looking for a sharp operator to supervise those agents, handle high-judgment moments, and help define what AI-native recruiting operations looks like as they scale.

This is a genuinely new kind of role. You're not a recruiter in the traditional sense — think air traffic controller, not pilot. The AI handles volume; you handle edge cases, senior candidates, tricky negotiations, and the feedback loop that makes the system smarter.

What You'll Do

• Supervise AI agent pipelines: Monitor live candidate conversations, flag errors, and step in when human judgment is needed
• Handle high-stakes moments: Senior candidates, complex objections, compensation negotiations — conversations where humans still win
• Train the agents: Review agent outputs, label good/bad responses, and write examples that improve AI performance
• Quality control at scale: Audit candidate matches, outreach quality, and conversion rates across thousands of weekly touchpoints
• Close placements: Guide candidates through final stages, manage offers, and ensure successful hires
• Build the playbook: Document what works, create SOPs, and help define how humans and AI agents collaborate effectively

What We're Looking For

Required:

• 2+ years of talent operations or recruitment experience at early-stage tech startups (pre-seed/seed)
• Strong communication and collaboration skills; comfortable working cross-functionally with product, engineering, design, and leadership
• Experience using data to inform recruitment decisions — KPIs, dashboards, A/B tests, experiments
• Proven ability to design and optimize end-to-end recruitment processes: sourcing, screening, interview coordination, offer management, and candidate experience
• Ability to work on-site in San Francisco as needed

Nice to Have:

• Experience with AI/ML-oriented startups and understanding of AI-focused hiring needs
• Familiarity with modern tech stacks (TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL) to communicate effectively with engineers

Growth Path

This role is a proving ground. Strong performers can grow into:

• Account Lead: Own client relationships and agent performance for key accounts
• Agent Training Lead: Own the feedback loop that makes the AI better
• Operations Lead: Build and manage the broader ops function

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Uncapped performance-based compensation tied to placements — top performers earn significantly more
• Performance-based equity grants available after a successful 90-day window, with potential for meaningful ownership as scope expands
• Health insurance
• Visa sponsorship available
• Optional: live/work at a San Francisco hacker house

Location

Based in San Francisco, CA. On-site presence required as needed. Remote flexibility available for the right candidate.