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Wispr Flow · 1 month ago

Founding Recruiting Lead

San Francisco

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$130K/yr - $200K/yr

7+ years exp

Wispr Flow is a company focused on revolutionizing human-computer interaction through voice technology. They are seeking a Founding Recruiting Lead to build and scale their talent team, manage candidate relationships, and define the talent brand as they grow significantly in the coming years.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Machine LearningSoftware

Responsibilities

You'll be the first recruiter and lead of our talent team at Wispr

Scale the engineering and ML teams from 15 to 50 over the course of 2026 while maintaining or increasing the talent bar

Defining the talent brand for Wispr Flow

Hosting events, meetups, and lunches to cultivate relationships

Managing the full relationship with candidates and becoming their trusted resource -- from the first touchpoint to closing them

Provide regular feedback and hiring data to teams

Building out the recruiting team

Qualification

Full life-cycle recruitmentHiring top talentBuilding recruiting teamClient relationship managementProactive approachAutonomyDesigning scalable systemsOrganizational skillsTeam playerStorytellingOwnership

Required

7+ years of prior full life-cycle recruitment experience; preferably in a start-up environment

Track record of hiring and assessing top talent across all levels and functions, particularly in product design and engineering, and have an eye for assessing their portfolios and capabilities

Proactive, ambitious, and results-oriented approach to achieving targets

Highly organized and can manage competing priorities in a fast paced environment

Strong client relationships management skills

Closer: Converts candidates choosing between Wispr and OpenAI / Anthropic / xAI

Operator: Designs scalable funnels, pipelines, sourcing systems from scratch

Storyteller: Converts product and technical vision into a narrative candidates emotionally buy into

Autonomy and Ownership: Makes decisions without supervision and treats hiring as existential

Team player: Deep desire to help the team and company win