Krea AI

Founding Recruiter

San Francisco · Exec · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 247 days ago

ExpressFull-Stack DevelopmentMachine LearningRecruitingResearchLeadership

About the role

We believe AI is a new medium that allows us to express ourselves through various formats - text, images, video, sound, and even 3D.
We've raised over $83M and are 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.

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.
Build pipelines across every function (engineers, researchers, product, design, GTM, ops, creatives). Each discipline has different talent pols and different ways to find the best people.
Build and maintain a strong network in AI/ML and engineering - or know how to build one quickly if you're newer to the space.
Own the process end to end
Own onboarding: make sure every new hire's first weeks are well-structured, welcoming, and set them up for success quickly.
Own 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.
Manage active visa cases (H-1B, O-1, E-3, TN, STEM OPT extensions) in partnership with outside counsel: timelines, filings, status tracking, employee communication.
We're growing fast and need to hire exceptional people across the full stack of the company - engineering, AI research, infrastructure, product, design, GTM, and ops.
And we need someone to own the strategy, the process, the pipelines, the candidate experience, and the employer brand to make it happen.

What matters is that you can do the job.
An engineering background is the most natural path, but what we really care about is whether you can tell a strong engineer from a mediocre one without leaning on someone else.
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.

Be a trusted resource for the team on anything people-related: compensation questions, role clarity, team dynamics, career development.

fast and thoughtful.
Find the right people
Source across the obvious and non-obvious: industry networks, academia, open source, communities, personal projects, referrals, events.
Go deep on candidates. Read the repos. Read the papers. Watch the demos. Understand what someone has actually built before you decide if they're worth pursuing.
Run full-cycle recruiting across all functions: sourcing, screening, scheduling, closing. Move fast and follow through.
Stay informed on how the market is moving - where strong people are coming from, what candidates care about, how the competitive landscape is shifting.
People ops and the full employee experience
Handle the operational side of the employee lifecycle - offer letters, employment agreements, and the day-to-day HR processes that a growing team needs.
Be a trusted resource for the team on anything people-related: compensation questions, role clarity, team dynamics, career development.
Work with leadership on culture as the team scales - what we want to preserve and what needs to evolve.
Immigration and visas

Manage active visa cases (H-1B, O-1, E-3, TN, STEM OPT extensions) in partnership with outside counsel: timelines, filings, status tracking, employee communication.

This listing is sourced directly from Krea AI's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.