Head of Talent

Skills

About the Role

Own recruiting end-to-end as Prime Intellect scales, personally lead priority searches, build sourcing and closing systems, define interview architecture and compensation frameworks, lead a recruiting team, and manage recruiting operations, candidate experience, and reporting.

Requirements

• 5+ years of technical recruiting experience.
• Experience at a frontier AI lab, top AI startup, or elite technical company.
• Experience recruiting ML researchers, frontier research talent, or systems and distributed engineers.
• Ability to source and close passive candidates against competing offers.
• Experience owning senior and hard-to-fill searches end-to-end.
• Player-coach experience.
• Strong candidate quality and leveling judgment.
• Experience building a recruiting function.

Responsibilities

• Run priority searches across research, infrastructure, and leadership.
• Source candidates through networks, cold outreach, and targeted campaigns.
• Close candidates against competing offers.
• Advise founders and hiring managers on candidate strategy, leveling, and offers.
• Design sourcing for frontier research and systems engineering talent.
• Build closing playbooks and recruiting tooling.
• Establish pipeline visibility and enforce the hiring bar.
• Hire and lead a recruiting team.
• Build interview architecture, rubrics, calibration, and debriefs.
• Own recruiting operations, candidate experience, and reporting.
• Partner with finance and founders on compensation, leveling, and equity strategy.

Benefits

• $250,000-$300,000+ cash compensation.
• Meaningful equity.
• Flexible work environment.
• Visa sponsorship.
• Relocation support.
• Professional development budget.
• Team off-sites.
• Conference attendance.