EQL Tech

Global AI startup recruitment partner

Senior Talent Acquisition Manager

Technical RecruitingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeSan Francisco, CA, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

At least 4 years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including at least 2 years in-house.
Experience hiring for technical, customer-facing roles such as forward-deployed, solutions, or sales engineering.
Ability to identify passive candidates and explain where strong candidates for a role come from.
Ability to distinguish a strong forward-deployed engineer from a backend engineer, and a strategist from a consultant.
Comfort working in an early-stage environment with shifting priorities and without an established playbook, including handling unglamorous tasks.
Ability to triage high volumes of applicants using artificial intelligence tools without overlooking strong candidates.

Responsibilities

Fill open roles according to plan with candidate screens trusted by the hiring team.
Build candidate pipelines through outbound outreach, not inbound sourcing alone.
Agree on a scorecard with each hiring manager and run a structured interview loop for every role.
Update every candidate within two business days after each stage and ensure follow-through.
Run offers, onboarding, and immigration basics reliably without requiring founder follow-up.

Desired Qualifications

Experience at Series B or earlier, ideally as the first or only recruiter.
Experience hiring forward-deployed engineers, AI strategists, or deployment consultants.
Experience managing agency or marketplace recruiters.
Familiarity with common immigration processes.
Experience leading or mentoring other recruiters.

Senior Talent Acquisition Manager

EQL Tech · San Francisco, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-16

Salary: USD 140,000–190,000

Workplace: on_site

Department: Leadership

Description

Partnership: EQL Tech is recruiting this role for an early-stage AI-native finance operations company. The company runs finance workflows end to end for enterprise clients, using AI systems that do real operational work rather than assisting with it.

About the company: The business is growing quickly and already runs production systems for customers. It is hiring across forward-deployed engineering and AI strategy, and this hire will be the first person most future candidates meet.

The role: You will own hiring for every open role, from agreeing what great looks like with the hiring manager to putting strong candidates in front of them. Roughly 90% of the job is recruiting and 10% is people operations. You’ll report to the Head of Strategy and Operations.

You will:

Fill open roles on plan, with screens the hiring team trusts.
Build pipeline through outbound outreach, not inbound alone.
Agree a scorecard with each hiring manager and run a structured interview loop for every role.
Keep every candidate updated within two business days of each stage, and make sure no one drops the ball.
Run offers, onboarding and immigration basics reliably, without founder follow-up.

Requirements

Your profile:

4+ years of full-cycle recruiting, at least two of them in-house.
Experience hiring into technical, customer-facing roles such as forward-deployed, solutions or sales engineering.
Strong at finding people who aren’t actively looking, and able to say where great candidates for a role come from.
Able to tell a strong forward-deployed engineer from a backend engineer, and a strategist from a consultant.
Comfortable with early-stage work: no playbook, shifting priorities, and happy with the unglamorous tasks.
Able to triage high volumes of applicants using AI tools without good people slipping through.

Nice to have:

Series B or earlier experience, ideally as the first or only recruiter.
Experience hiring FDEs, AI strategists or deployment consultants.
Experience managing agency or marketplace recruiters.
Familiarity with common immigration processes.
Experience leading or mentoring other recruiters.

Benefits

Benefits and compensation: Salary is $140,000–$190,000 base plus equity, depending on experience (USD).

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About the Company

EQL Tech

Global AI startup recruitment partner

Eql Tech connects AI-native startups and high-growth tech scale-ups with top talent in engineering, sales, and GTM roles across the US and UK, acting as a strategic talent partner. It offers retained executive search, contingent hiring, and embedded talent solutions, plus interim leadership, talent advisory, and managed services to run a company’s recruitment function. The firm differentiates itself through sector specialization, a multi-service approach, and a leadership team with crosses between finance, education, and AI. Its goal is to help growing tech companies scale by aligning talent strategy with business objectives.

Company size: Not listed
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: Austin, TX
Founded: 2023

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