LlamaIndex
Founding Talent Lead
San Francisco · Senior
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About the role
- We're past the earliest stage as a company, but still early in how we operate talent: the systems, standards, rituals, tools, and hiring muscle are still being built.
- Your primary focus will be technical hiring across AI/ML, infrastructure, full-stack engineering, and developer tools, with company-wide coverage across GTM, marketing, and operations.
- This is not a purely strategic or management-track role.
Responsibilities
- You'll set the strategy, build the infrastructure, and personally run searches for our most critical and hardest-to-fill roles.
- Build-vs-buy decisions on agencies and external partners, including when to scale support up or down, how to manage budgets, and how to hold partners accountable.
Requirements
- 7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally as an early or founding recruiter at a high-growth startup.
- A strong track record hiring niche technical talent across AI/ML, infrastructure, platform engineering, or developer tools.
- Comfort operating across functions, from technical hiring to GTM, marketing, and operations roles.
Nice to have
- familiarity with AI/ML, open-source developer communities, developer tools, or agency/vendor management.
- This role is in-person at our downtown San Francisco office.
- Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
- LlamaIndex does not accept unsolicited agency resumes.
- LlamaIndex is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
- Nice to have: familiarity with AI/ML, open-source developer communities, developer tools, or agency/vendor management.
Company info
- An employer brand and candidate experience that reflect who we are and help us convert exceptional passive talent.
- Company-wide hiring strategy and capacity planning in partnership with founders and leadership, translating roadmap and headcount needs into an executable hiring plan.
- Hiring quality and consistency across the company. You'll be the steward of the bar and the person who helps teams make better hiring decisions.
- LlamaIndex is building the document infrastructure layer for AI agents- from industry-leading document OCR with LlamaParse to workflow products that help enterprises automate knowledge work over documents.
- We're looking for someone who can help us build a high-quality, high-velocity hiring engine from the ground up.
- We're looking for a senior Talent Leader to build our recruiting function from 0 to 1.
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