Talent AI Operator

About The Role This is a brand-new kind of role at a fast-growing, pre-seed AI-native recruiting platform operating at marketplace scale — with tens of thousands of candidates and hundreds of startup customers already on the platform. The company builds autonomous AI agents that handle end-to-end recruiting: sourcing, personalized outreach, candidate conversations, qualification, and interview scheduling. As a Talent AI Operator, you are not a traditional recruiter. You are the human layer that makes autonomous recruiting actually work. Think air traffic controller, not pilot. The AI handles volume; you provide judgment, oversight, and precision at the moments that matter most. You'll help define what AI-native recruiting operations looks like as this team scales. What You'll Do • Supervise AI agent pipelines: Monitor live candidate conversations, flag errors, and intervene when the agent requires human judgment. • Handle high-stakes moments: Senior candidates, tricky objections, compensation negotiations — conversations where human touch still wins. • Train the agents: Review agent outputs, label good/bad responses, and write examples that make the AI smarter over time. • 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 offer conversations, and ensure successful hires. • Build the playbook: Document what works, create SOPs, and define how humans and AI agents collaborate effectively. What We're Looking For Required: • 2+ years of talent operations, recruitment, or sourcing experience at early-stage tech startups (pre-seed/seed stage) • Extensive hands-on experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT, or similar) to evaluate output quality, identify errors, and understand AI capabilities and limitations • Proven ability to design and optimize end-to-end recruitment processes: sourcing, screening, interview coordination, offer management, and candidate experience • Experience monitoring and quality-assuring high-volume candidate pipelines (hundreds to thousands of weekly touchpoints) • Experience closing placements and managing final-stage candidate conversations including offer negotiation and objection handling • Experience training, labeling outputs, or providing structured feedback to improve AI/ML systems or agent performance • Data-informed mindset: comfortable working with KPIs, dashboards, A/B tests, and conversion rate analysis • Strong communication and collaboration skills; proven ability to work cross-functionally with product, engineering, design, and leadership • Ability to work on-site in San Francisco as needed (hackerhouse option available) Nice to Have: • Experience at AI/ML-focused startups or with AI-native hiring processes • Familiarity with modern tech stacks (TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL) to communicate effectively with engineers • Experience documenting processes, creating SOPs, or building operational playbooks 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 continuously improves the AI • Operations Lead: Build and manage the broader ops team as the company scales Compensation & Benefits • Competitive base salary • Uncapped performance-based compensation tied to successful placements — top performers earn significantly more • Performance-based equity: Equity grants available to top performers after a successful 90-day window, with potential for meaningful ownership as scope expands • Health insurance • Visa sponsorship available • Optional: live and work from the company's San Francisco hackerhouse Location Primary location: Los Angeles, CA or San Francisco, CA. Hybrid work arrangement with on-site availability expected. Visa sponsorship is available.