AI Fund · 4 days ago
Head of Talent
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
5+ years expAI Fund is an early-stage venture studio founded by Andrew Ng, focused on building and growing AI companies. The Head of Talent will lead the talent function, overseeing strategy, execution, and people leadership, while rethinking recruiting processes in the AI era.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Responsibilities
Serve as Head of Talent for AI Fund, owning recruiting at AI Fund and supporting our portfolio companies’ recruiting
Lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing team of recruiters; set clear standards for quality, velocity, and candidate experience
Partner directly with AI Fund leadership and portfolio CEOs to rapidly hire great talent into our teams
Bring structure, clarity, and rigor to an environment that moves fast and operates with high ambiguity
Own end-to-end recruiting for AI Fund’s internal team and startup leadership roles, including specifically hiring the technical co-founder/CEO to lead our startups
After a startup is formed, further assist it directly with building up the first few members of their team
Serve as a trusted advisor to founders on org design, compensation philosophy, leveraging AI Fund and our ecosystem resources when appropriate
Rethink how recruiting should work in the AI era, for example by deploying AI-powered workflows across the full cycle of recruiting
Partner with AI Fund and ecosystem engineers to improve our AI-enabled recruiting tools
Go beyond point solutions that eke out incremental efficiency gains. Instead, take bold steps to redesigning the entire recruiting workflow, taking advantage of AI technology and our ecosystem capabilities
Nurture the software development and invention capabilities of our recruiting team. Everyone at AI Fund, including all of our recruiters, know how to code (with AI assistance) and is involved in building custom recruiting software. This puts us well ahead of most other recruiting teams. You will extend this lead and use these capabilities to invent new ways to approach talent
Ensure and scale a transparent, respectful, and high-touch candidate experience, even at high volume
Design processes to make sure AI Fund and its portfolio are showing up credibly, warmly and authentically to candidates
Define, track, and analyze recruiting funnel metrics, including time-to-fill, conversion rates, source quality, and quality-of-hire signals
Establish scalable workflows, scorecards, and interview frameworks that maintain quality even as AI Fund scales
Qualification
Required
5+ years of hands on full-cycle recruiting experience, including at least 3+ in senior technical leadership or executive recruiting
Experience managing a team of recruiters, ideally technical recruiters
Proven success hiring AI, engineering, or deeply technical talent in early stage environments (where compensation is heavily weighted toward equity or other long term incentives rather than cash)
Basic coding ability (using AI to code for you is fine), and/or a strong desire and aptitude to learn
Ideally also experience using generative AI to design, build, and iterate on recruiting workflows
Must have GenAI-forward mindset & traits: You actively use AI tools in your daily work and are eager to work hard, keep experimenting, and personally stay at the forefront of this field
Leadership & gravitas: You can confidently partner with founders, CEOs, and senior executives
Ownership: You operate urgently and with accountability and are willing to do the hard work required to build something exceptional
Systems thinker: You think in workflows, leverage data, and care deeply about repeatability and scale
Preferred
Experience building recruiting functions, playbooks, or operations from zero to one
Experience with HR functions (such as performance management, compensation and benefits, training and development, HR-related compliance, employee relations)
Familiarity with venture studios or venture capital firms, startups, or founder-led organizations
Experience devising and executing against successful event strategies that can drive candidate flow and engagement with the firm at scale
Benefits
Competitive compensation including equity participation in AI Fund's success.
Company
AI Fund
AI Fund is a VC firm made up of AI pioneers, operators, entrepreneurs, and investors, supported by LPs such as NEA, Sequoia and Greylock.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageLeadership Team
Eva Wang
Partner, COO & GC
Andrew Ng
Managing General Partner
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