AfterQuery
AI
BusinessTalentAcquisitionLead
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“Business Talent Acquisition Lead at AfterQuery. Skills: End-to-end recruiting for business and operations roles, Building talent pipelines from elite finance, consulting, PE, and tech firms, Partnering with executive and founding team to define hiring profiles, prioritize searches, and design interview processes, Driving recruiting infrastructure, Closing candidates, Treating recruiting as a measurable function. Own end-to-end recruiting for AfterQuery's business and operations roles — sourcing,”
What You'll Achieve.
Define the business-side hiring engine for one of the most consequential companies in the AI training-data category; Own the hiring trajectory through every business hire made
Industry & Context.
Comfortable in a 5-day in-office SF environment that prizes speed and direct feedback
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5-10+ years of experience across agency and in-house recruiting, A track record of identifying, attracting, and closing elite talent, Intense work ethic, agency, and drive, Competitive nature and demonstrated past success across whatever you've done, leadership and communication skills, A genuine interest in the AfterQuery thesis, High agency, low ego, speedy but thoughtful, Comfortable in a 5-day in-office SF environment that prizes speed and direct feedback
Nice to Have
Ex-recruiting at a top executive search firm (e. g. , Spencer Stuart, Heidrick, Egon Zehnder, Russell Reynolds, True Search, Daversa), a top-tier in-house recruiting team, or a high-growth tech/AI startup, Proven track record of scaling recruiting operations through rapid headcount growth, Prior experience hiring for finance, consulting, PE, or operationally rigorous business roles — and a personal network in those pools, Making a pivot into AI from a track record elsewhere — finance, consulting, search, or operating roles — with demonstrated success
What You'll Do.
Own end-to-end recruiting for AfterQuery's business and operations roles — sourcing
and closing top-tier candidates across Strategic Project Operations
and other key business functions we build out
proactive talent pipelines from elite finance
and tech firms — the same caliber bar as our existing team — and convert them
Partner directly with the executive and founding team to define hiring profiles
and design rigorous interview processes that test for agency
Drive recruiting infrastructure across the company as an early hire — scorecards
the candidate experience
and the offer-and-close motion that turns interest into signed contracts
Close candidates and represent AfterQuery's mission
and opportunity compellingly to the highest-bar talent in the market
Treat recruiting as a measurable function — instrument the funnel
model conversion at every stage
and iterate on what's working
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner directly with the executive and founding team to define hiring profiles, prioritize searches, and design rigorous interview processes
Communication Scope
leadership and communication skills — you can hold your own opposite a founder, a Jane Street trader, or a GTM leader, and you build pipelines that founders trust
Full Job Description
BUSINESS TALENT ACQUISITION LEAD San Francisco, CA · In-office (5 days/week) · Full-time ABOUT AFTERQUERY AfterQuery is a research lab investigating the boundaries and capabilities of artificial intelligence through novel datasets and experimentation. Our customers are the frontier foundation model labs — we serve all of them. We are based in San Francisco and have raised funding from top investors including Y Combinator and BoxGroup, ex-partners from Lightspeed and Index Ventures, and senior leadership at Google DeepMind and Meta GenAI. Our founding team brings backgrounds from Jane Street, Meta, Citadel Securities, Google, Palantir, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Silver Lake. Our edge comes from the caliber of the team we hire — and how rigorously we identify, attract, and close it. We are growing quickly, the work is consequential, and the bar is high. ABOUT THE ROLE This is our first dedicated Business Talent Acquisition hire, working directly with the founding team. You will own end-to-end hiring for our business and operations functions — Strategic Projects, Operations, GTM, and every business-side function we build out. This is not a typical recruiting role: you will operate as a builder, designing the sourcing engine, interview rubrics, and closing motion that bring in elite talent across every business-side hire we make. You should be excited to recruit at the same caliber bar that built the rest of the team — Jane Street, Citadel Securities, Meta, Google, Palantir, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Silver Lake, MBB consulting, top PE, and top hedge funds. The most consequential talent in the market is increasingly choosing AI. We need someone who can identify it, get them in the room, and close. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Own end-to-end recruiting for AfterQuery's business and operations roles — sourcing, screening, interviewing, and closing top-tier candidates across Strategic Project Operations, GTM, and other key business functions we build out. - Build deep, pr
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