UniversalAGI

UniversalAGI

Founding GTM and Business Recruiter

San Francisco

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 82 days ago
DatabricksBrand StrategyBusiness DevelopmentProcess ImprovementRecruitingANSYSCFDCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

  • This is strategic talent acquisition at the highest level-finding needles in haystacks, searching for people, like yourself, who want to have an outsized impact.

Responsibilities

  • Own hiring across our business roles, which includes Account Executives, Business Development, HR, Finance, Marketing, and beyond.
  • You will partner directly with both functional leaders and our growing recruiting team to define hiring priorities, pressure test profiles, and close high impact talent in competitive markets.
  • Build and execute creative sourcing strategies to identify talent in specialized niches like automotive/aerospace/maritime, computational physicists, applied mathematicians, and systems engineers
  • Own the entire candidate pipeline from initial identification through offer acceptance, managing 50+ active candidates simultaneously while maintaining exceptional candidate experience
  • Build and maintain a robust talent pipeline that stays weeks ahead of hiring needs, ensuring we never slow down due to lack of qualified candidates
  • Design and optimize recruiting workflows, tools, and processes that scale with our hypergrowth while maintaining quality-you'll build the playbook that future recruiters will follow
  • Track, analyze, and optimize key recruiting metrics: pipeline conversion rates, time-to-hire, source effectiveness, offer acceptance rates, and candidate quality scores
  • Represent UniversalAGI at conferences, and meetups, and relevant communities, building our employer brand and talent network in AI and deep tech circles
  • This is a role for someone who's ready to solve some of humanity's hardest recruiting challenges, build a world-class talent engine from scratch, and define what exceptional recruiting looks like in the age of AI.
  • UniversalAGI is building OpenAI for Physics.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of high-volume full cycle business and sales recruiting with a proven track record of sourcing and closing outstanding talent quickly.
  • Managing candidate experience with a high bar for clarity, speed, and conviction
  • Ability to earn respect through deep technical curiosity and genuine understanding of what makes engineers tick
  • 5+ years of high-volume full cycle business and sales recruiting with a proven track record of sourcing and closing outstanding talent quickly. You've can source and close top talent and demonstrate rapid pipeline-to-offer conversion.
  • Expert in sourcing strategies and tools (LinkedIn Recruiter, JuiceBox, Boolean search, AI sourcing tools, conference attendee lists, etc.).
  • Demonstrated success recruiting for specialized business roles. You should enjoy hunting and finding needles in haystacks
  • Ability to quickly learn complex technical domains to have credible conversations with candidates about what we're building.
  • Deeply care about candidate experience. Managing candidate experience with a high bar for clarity, speed, and conviction
  • Outstanding execution velocity and delivery. You move fast, manage multiple pipelines simultaneously, and consistently hit aggressive hiring targets.
  • Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills. Capable of engaging passive candidates and building long-term talent networks.
  • Data-driven mindset with strong analytical skills to optimize recruiting funnels and improve conversion rates.
  • Comfortable working in high-intensity, fast-paced startup environments with evolving priorities, ambitious hiring goals, and tight deadlines.
  • Experience building recruiting processes and infrastructure from scratch at early-stage startups.

Nice to have

  • Prior experience recruiting for AI startups (Seed to Series C) during hypergrowth phases (0-150+ employees).
  • Experience with employer branding initiatives and representing companies at conferences.
  • Technical Respect: Ability to earn respect through deep technical curiosity and genuine understanding of what makes engineers tick
  • Intensity: Thrives in our unusually intense culture - willing to grind when needed to close critical hires
  • Mission Obsession: Passionate about finding the absolute best talent to solve real problems, not just filling seats
  • Deep Work: Values long, uninterrupted periods of focused sourcing and candidate engagement over meetings
  • High Availability: Ready to be deeply involved whenever critical candidates are in play-evenings, weekends when needed
  • Communication: Can translate complex requirements into compelling narratives that attract top talent

Compensation

  • Competitive Salary + Equity

Benefits

  • We provide great benefits, including:
  • Competitive compensation and equity.
  • Competitive health, dental, vision benefits paid by the company.
  • Flexible vacation.
  • AI tools stipend.
  • Monthly commute stipend.
  • Monthly wellness/fitness stipend.
  • Competitive compensation with significant equity upside.

Company info

  • AI startup based in San Francisco and backed by Elad Gil (#1 Solo VC), Eric Schmidt (former Google CEO), Prith Banerjee (ANSYS CTO), Ion Stoica (Databricks Founder), Jared Kushner (former Senior Advisor to the President), David Patterson (Turing Award Winner), and Luis Videgaray (former Foreign and Finance Minister of Mexico).
  • At our core, we believe in being "in the arena." We are builders, problem solvers, and risk-takers who show up every day ready to put in the work: to sweat, to struggle, and to push past our limits.
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