FoundingTalentLead

Join us and help shape the future of AI by defining the narrative around document understanding. ABOUT LLAMAINDEX 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 growing quickly, and the way we hire over the next few years will shape the company we become. We’re looking for someone who can help us build a high-quality, high-velocity hiring engine from the ground up. ABOUT THE ROLE We’re looking for a senior Talent Leader to build our recruiting function from 0 to 1. 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. This is a hands-on, player-coach role. You’ll set the strategy, build the infrastructure, and personally run searches for our most critical and hardest-to-fill roles. 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. We want someone who is exceptional at the craft of recruiting and excited to architect the engine around it. WHAT YOU’LL BUILD - A repeatable, high-precision hiring engine across technical and non-technical roles, including sourcing playbooks, structured interview processes, scorecards, and calibration standards. - A modern recruiting stack, including configuring, optimizing, and instrumenting Ashby and AI-powered sourcing tools so the funnel is fast, measurable, and high-quality. - Hiring manager enablement across engineering, product, GTM, and leadership, helping teams define roles clearly, calibrate quickly, and run consistent, high-signal interview loops. - An employer brand and candidate experience that reflect who we are and help us convert exceptional passive talent. - A