AfterQuery
AI
BusinessTalentAcquisitionLead
“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
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