Lead Technical Recruiter - USA

About Inworld

Inworld is a research lab of top researchers and engineers, building the world’s top-ranked realtime voice models. Today our models are the #1 ranked realtime voice models globally, powering the largest consumer-facing AI applications across health, fitness, learning, therapy, companions, customer experience, and media—representing hundreds of millions of end users. Our work spans research and development of state-of-the-art models, optimizing realtime inference, and creating best-in-class APIs and products for developers.

We’ve raised over $125M from investors including Lightspeed, Section 32, Kleiner Perkins, Microsoft’s M12 venture fund, Founders Fund, Meta, and Stanford. Our technology powers experiences for companies like NVIDIA, Microsoft Xbox, Niantic, Logitech Streamlabs, Wishroll, Little Umbrella, and Bible Chat. We’ve been recognized by CB Insights as one of the 100 most promising AI companies globally and named one of LinkedIn’s Top 10 Startups in the USA.

Responsibilities

• Own our most critical and senior searches end-to-end, acting as an executive search partner to our founders—from talent strategy and market mapping through offer and close.
• Act as a strategic advisor to hiring managers and leadership: shape role definitions, calibrate expectations, design search strategies, and execute them.
• Build deep pipelines of exceptional AI, engineering, research, and business talent through creative sourcing and long-term relationship building with passive candidates.
• Use data to drive decisions, track funnel health, diagnose bottlenecks, and report on hiring progress with rigor.
• Apply AI to recruiting: leverage assistants like Claude and AI-native sourcing/automation tools to streamline workflows while maintaining a personal, high-touch candidate experience.
• Elevate our recruiting practice: improve processes, sharpen interviewer quality, ensure an exceptional candidate experience, and mentor others on the team.
• Represent Inworld in the market as a compelling, credible ambassador for our mission and culture.

Requirements

• 8+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, including several years supporting senior and hard-to-fill technical roles.
• Deep understanding of technical roles, with experience hiring in AI/ML, infrastructure, or research environments strongly preferred.
• Versatility to run GTM, marketing, or business searches alongside your core technical focus.
• A track record of closing exceptional senior talent in highly competitive markets.
• Fluency with recruiting data; you use metrics to drive strategy, influence stakeholders, and hold searches accountable.
• A builder’s mindset: you love creating tools, automation, and processes, prototype fast, and iterate to improve.
• Hands-on fluency with AI assistants; you already use them daily and find new ways to work smarter while keeping a human-centered approach.
• Proficiency with a modern AI-native recruiting stack.
• Experience partnering directly with executives and hiring managers as a trusted advisor.
• Experience in retained executive search or as a strategic search partner to founders/executives is a strong plus.

Qualities We Value

• You operate with high ownership—you don’t wait for direction, you set it.
• You thrive in a fast-moving startup environment and stay effective amid ambiguity and shifting priorities.
• You love optimizing workflows and constantly look for ways to improve how the team works.
• You hold a high bar—for candidates, process quality, and yourself.
• You’re organized, prioritize ruthlessly, and communicate clearly with stakeholders at every level.

Pay

The base salary range for this full-time position is $160,000 - $260,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location, level, and additional factors, including competencies, experience, and business needs.