Founding Recruiter

About Krea

We are building next-generation AI creative tools. We believe AI is a new medium that allows us to express ourselves through various formats - text, images, video, sound, and even 3D. We're building better, smarter, and more controllable tools to harness this medium.

Krea has raised over $83M and is backed by world-class Silicon Valley investors such as Andreesen Horowitz and Bain Capital. We work full-time and in-person at our waterfront office in San Francisco.

What You’ll Do

• Build the function
• Design and own Krea's approach to talent — philosophy, process, tooling, and the lightweight systems that make it scale without adding bureaucracy.
• Create pipelines across every function (engineers, researchers, product, design, GTM, ops, creatives).
• Source across the obvious and non-obvious: industry networks, academia, open source, communities, personal projects, referrals, events.
• Own the process end to end
• Run full-cycle recruiting across all functions: sourcing, screening, scheduling, closing.
• Manage onboarding: make sure every new hire's first weeks are well-structured, welcoming, and set them up for success quickly.
• Handle the operational side of the employee lifecycle - offer letters, employment agreements, and the day-to-day HR processes that a growing team needs.
• Work with leadership on culture as the team scales — what we want to preserve and what needs to evolve.
• Manage immigration end to end. A meaningful portion of our team is international and this isn't a peripheral task — it's core to how we hire.
• Represent Krea externally
• Contribute to employer brand as we grow — what Krea stands for as a place to work and why exceptional people should want to be here.

What We're Looking For

• A builder mentality. You're comfortable starting from zero. You don't need a playbook handed to you. You'd rather design the right process than inherit someone else's.
• Breadth. You're not a specialist. You can hire across product, infra, AI research, GTM, ops, and creative roles — and support the people in those roles once they're here.
• A track record of closing strong people. Whether you came to this as a recruiter, an engineer, a founder, or someone who built teams another way — you've done it before and you can do it again.
• A good judgment about people. Technical screens are part of it, but you also have strong instincts about motivation, culture, and fit.

What We Offer

• Visa support (STEM OPT, OPT, H-1B, O-1, E-3)
• A chance to work closely with a world-class engineering and research team.
• Real ownership over how we hire and how we grow.
• Competitive compensation (75th percentile of market) with meaningful equity.