Who We Are:
AI Fund is an early stage venture firm founded by Dr. Andrew Ng in 2017. Our portfolio companies utilize AI technology and applications to improve processes and efficiency. The AI Fund team combines their experiences as AI pioneers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, investors, and operators. We are backed by a $176 million-dollar fund from top-tier VC firms.Â
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About Talentiz:
Talentiz is a Trusted Partner to the AIF Portfolio Companies to develop and execute a talent strategy that will attract and retain the best talents globally.Â
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What We Seek:
We are seeking an experienced Senior Recruiter who will work with our leadership team and portfolio company hiring managers to identify proven talent to join our ecosystem. Successful candidates will understand the importance of creating a positive candidate experience and be results-oriented while keeping the bar high. You will wear multiple hats including business development (primarily networking with warm leads), account management, quality control when screening candidates entering the recruiting pipeline, facilitating the interview process, and closing offers with reasonable costs and on a quick timeline. This will be a remote role based out of your home office.
Responsibilities For The Role Include:
You will establish and nurture relationships with executives/hiring managers with potential customers and convert them to customers. We have a lot of warm leads that will need to be sold on our value proposition. These leads will be turned into paying customers. You will seek out and establish additional relationships within the company’s to identify and uncover additional hiring needs.You will work with hiring managers to identify recruiting needs. You need to sync with the company’s leadership team and hiring managers regularly to identify hiring needs and prioritize positions based on the portfolio company's goals. You will need to master the recruiting process and advise hiring managers on job market trends and compensation structure. For each portfolio company you support, you must understand their vision and their product inside and out in order to present the data in such a manner that attracts the best talents.You will need to ensure positive candidate experience throughout the entire interview process. This includes things such as timely follow-up, interview scheduling, maintaining open and transparent dialogue with candidates as well as the entire hiring committee and your manager. Source high quality talent for all positions. We typically are requested to find the initial founding team of a brand new startup which means quality and ability to match up skill sets and personalities to optimize team structure is critical. You will be responsible for identifying, reaching out to, and engaging talents for all functions as well as negotiate a compensation package that focuses on long term gain. You will recommend and execute the best recruiting strategy. You need to know what the most effective channels are to hire for different positions. We expect the recruiter to know where the best talents congregate and find every opportunity to network with talents to get referrals and gain their trust.  You will be able to learn and use different HR and recruiting systems to assist with managing the hiring process and recruiting funnel. You will be responsible to use our ATS system and other scheduling and recruiting related systems including Crunchbase, Lever, HackerRank, Linkedin and other systems. You need to assist with our recruiting committee to list any type of job posting (career page job post, Linkedin paid job post, other social media job post) in order to advertise and promote the job. You will utilize different tools and resources to promote the job, and manage the candidates from different channels and migrate any new candidate data into Lever for tracking.  You will be responsible to negotiate offers that focus on long-term incentives within a reasonable timeline. You need to build strong relationships with promising candidates by knowing what truly motivates the candidates. In most cases, candidates who join our ecosystem focus on the opportunities instead of short term financial return. You need to identify candidates’ concerns, present opportunities and involve hiring managers/executives to the closing process in the right timing to close the offer. ,
Requirements For the Role Include:
At least 5 years of hands-on senior level recruiting experience running the recruiting process from beginning to end.Previous experience running a full recruiting desk is highly desirable.Previous experience recruiting for technical and commercial roles required.Experience recruiting for hi-tech startups strongly preferred.Excellent written and verbal English fluency required.Operational excellence. We expect you to be able to manage an efficient recruiting process - from sourcing, scheduling, screening to negotiating and closing offers.Attention to detail and multi-tasking. You’ll be juggling a lot of important projects at once. It will be important both to drive them forward quickly and to pay attention to the details so balls don’t get dropped. Bachelor degree from a top university. Experience with applicant tracking systems required.,
Characteristics That We Value Include:
Accountability: an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one's actions while doing so with the highest regard for integrity.  Leadership: able to influence others to follow you and lead the team to a brighter future. Grit. able to stick with projects and work hard through good and bad times. High pain tolerance and can perform well under stress or pressure.Scrappy: Takes initiative and proactively gets things done with low resources, but doing creative things, begging, borrowing, and whatever is needed in an ambiguous environment or situation.Ownership orientation: Demonstrated orientation of extreme ownership over all aspects of the company and extremely results-driven in nature.At AI Fund, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. AI Fund believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
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