Head of Talent Acquisition

About the Role

LILT is hiring a Head of Talent Acquisition & Recruiting to own full-cycle recruiting across the company. This is a builder-coach role, not a traditionally managerial seat. It is an AI-native position, meaning you will personally run searches for our highest-priority roles while coaching a small team of recruiters. You will architect an AI-agent-driven talent engine that sources and screens candidates, reserving human interview time for candidates who have already cleared a rigorous, AI-run bar. You'll report to the VP of People and partner closely with hiring managers across Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and Operations.

Responsibilities

• Builder-Coach Recruiting
  • Personally own full-cycle recruiting — sourcing, screening, interview loop design, and closing — for LILT's highest-priority roles across EPRD and GTM.
  • Build a team of AI agents, and coach and manage a small team of recruiters and sourcers for direct sourcing, candidate assessment, and closing technique.
  • Lead by example: every recruiter on the team should see how you personally run a search and hold themselves to that bar.
• Build and Run the AI-Native Talent Engine
  • Deploy and manage AI agents as LILT's first-line sourcers and screeners — identifying candidates, conducting structured initial screens, and scoring them against role-specific scorecards before any human engagement.
  • Continuously tune the AI screening bar using outcome data to reduce false positives and false negatives over time.
  • Redesign the human interview loop to focus on fewer, higher-signal conversations with candidates pre-validated by the AI layer, with special focus on the software engineering interview cycle.
  • Build on existing recruiting tools (Ashby + Noon AI).
• Process, Metrics, and Rigor
  • Own recruiting metrics end-to-end: time-to-fill, pipeline conversion by stage (including AI-screen pass-through rate), quality-of-hire, and hiring-manager and candidate satisfaction.
  • Apply the same rigor to recruiting operations that LILT brings to its AI products — instrument the funnel, identify bottlenecks, and fix them quickly.
• Partnership and Employer Brand
  • Partner directly with hiring managers and the VP of People to translate headcount plans into targeted sourcing strategies and realistic SLAs.
  • Coach hiring managers on interviewing and candidate evaluation, especially on maximizing finalist conversations surfaced by the AI layer.
  • Build LILT's employer brand as proof that AI amplifies great recruiters rather than replacing them.

Requirements

• 4+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally spanning both technical and go-to-market hiring in a high-growth or AI-centric company.
• Direct, hands-on experience with AI-powered sourcing or screening tools, or a demonstrated ability to design and operate agentic recruiting workflows from scratch.
• Experience coaching, mentoring, or informally leading other recruiters — a title isn't required, but you should have already made someone else better at this job.
• A track record of personally closing hard-to-fill roles, not just managing others who do.
• (Highly preferred) Experience with integrating small teams/acquihires.

Skills

• Structured, rigorous evaluator of talent — you can build a scorecard, run a calibrated interview, and distinguish between a good story and a good hire.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and building process from scratch — there is no existing AI-recruiting playbook to follow; you'll write it.
• Data-fluent: you can build and interpret your own funnel metrics without waiting on an analyst.
• Clear, direct communicator with hiring managers and candidates alike.

Qualities

• Find a way or make one: You own outcomes and don’t wait for someone else to hand you a hiring plan or playbook.
• Quicker than they expect: You have a bias for action and treat candidate and hiring-manager experience with urgency.
• Quality is Job 1: You’d rather make one great hire slowly than three mediocre hires quickly.
• Work together, win together: You build trust with hiring managers, candidates, and your own recruiting team, optimizing for the team’s impact — not just your own req list.

Nice-to-Have

• Hands-on experience with Ashby ATS or a comparable modern recruiting platform.
• Prior recruiting experience in AI, machine learning, or localization/translation technology.
• Experience building or piloting AI agents or automation for any part of a business workflow, recruiting or otherwise.

About LILT

LILT is changing how the world communicates. We’re on a mission to make the world’s information accessible to everyone, regardless of the language they speak. Using cutting-edge AI, machine translation, and human-in-the-loop expertise, we translate content faster, more accurately, and more cost-effectively without compromising on brand, voice, or quality. We empower our teammates with leading tools, global collaboration, and growth opportunities to do their best work. Our company virtues guide everything we do:

• Work together, win together
• Find a way or make one
• Quicker than they expect
• Quality is Job 1

We are trusted by Intel Corporation, Canva, the United States Department of Defense, the United States Air Force, ASICS, and hundreds of global enterprises. Backed by Sequoia, Intel Capital, and Redpoint, we’re building a category-defining company in a $50B+ global translation market being redefined by AI.

Our Story

Our founders, Spence and John, met at Google working on Google Translate. As researchers at Stanford and Berkeley, they worked on language technology to make information accessible to everyone. While at Google, they discovered that Google Translate wasn’t used for enterprise products and services inside the company due to quality limitations. So they set out to build something better. LILT was born in 2015 as a machine learning company focused on closing the quality gap in enterprise translations. We’ve prioritized investments in Large Language Models, human-in-the-loop systems, and now agentic AI. With AI innovation accelerating and enterprise demand growing, the next phase of LILT’s journey is just beginning.

Our Tech

What sets our platform apart:

• Brand-aware AI that learns your voice, tone, and terminology to ensure every translation is accurate and consistent.
• Agentic AI workflows that automate the entire translation process from content ingestion to quality review to publishing.
• 100+ native integrations with systems like Adobe Experience Manager, Webflow, Salesforce, GitHub, and Google Drive to simplify content translation.
• Human-in-the-loop reviews via our global network of professional linguists for high-impact content that requires expert review.

LILT in the News

• Featured in The Software Report’s Top 100 Software Companies.
• LILT makes it onto the Inc. 5000 List.
• LILT continues to be an intellectual powerhouse, holding numerous patents that power the most efficient and sophisticated AI and language models in the industry.

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