Manager, Recruiting

About the role

As our Manager of Recruiting, you'll own one of the most critical functions at UniversalAGI: finding, closing, and nurturing the people who build our foundation models. This is a high-ownership, player-coach role. You'll lead and grow a team of technical and non-technical recruiters, sourcing and coordination, while carrying your own req load and working full-cycle across the hardest searches yourself.

You’ll partner directly with the CEO, Hiring Managers, and founding team to translate our headcount plans into a world-class talent engine. This is a rare chance to help build a recruiting team from the ground up at a company moving relentlessly fast.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of technical and non-technical recruiters, sourcers, and recruiting coordinators
• Carry your own full-cycle requisition load across technical (AI/ML, research, CFD/physics simulation, engineering) and non-technical (GTM, sales, operations) searches
• Own recruiting OKRs and capacity planning: translate hiring plans into team capacity, requisition allocation, and be able to reallocate fast as priorities shift.
• Partner with CEO, founding team, and hiring managers to shape role definitions, ideal candidate profiles, and hiring strategy for every open requisition.
• Build and protect talent pipelines in the hardest-to-fill niches while staying weeks ahead of demand.
• Own the recruiting metrics that matter: pipeline conversion, time-to-hire, sourcing effectiveness, offer acceptance.
• Set the standard for candidate experience across every discipline, from first outreach through offer and close
• Build UniversalAGI's reputation as the destination for top talent across AI/ML, research, CFD/physics simulation, engineering, GTM, sales, and operations.
• Coach your team and hiring managers alike on sourcing strategy, technical/business fluency, and closing

Requirements

• 5+ years of full-cycle