Founding Talent Acquisition Specialist
Bengaluru
Zingle AI Research Lab is a San Francisco based deep-tech startup building an AI-native platform for analytics teams. Backed by Accel and Nexus. Our team is AI PhDs, researchers, senior technologists, and people who've started companies before.
We're hiring our first recruiter. Right now the founders do all the hiring, and it's the thing slowing us down.
The job is sourcing and closing. You'll spend most of your week writing outreach to people who aren't looking, and the rest of it on the phone convincing someone to leave a stable job. Scheduling is the smallest part of this.
What you'll actually own:
Hiring across engineering, AI/research, product and GTM
Outbound sourcing from zero. LinkedIn, GitHub, Slack communities, referrals, cold email. No inbound pipeline exists yet
JDs and outreach copy, and iterating on them when reply rates are bad
Interview loops and scorecards. Right now different interviewers ask different things and grade differently
Comp conversations and competing offers
The ATS, and the numbers that come out of it
Careers page, and showing up wherever our candidates are
Hiring plan and headcount conversations with the founders
We work 6 days a week for the next 4 months. You'll be explaining that to candidates, so you should be okay with it.
What we need:
3+ years recruiting, ideally tech roles at a startup
You've sourced passive candidates. If your last job was screening inbound applications this will be a rough transition
Enough technical judgment to read a resume and tell a real backend engineer from someone who closed a lot of tickets
You can pitch a company nobody has heard of against a FAANG offer and win some of the time
You write well. Most first contact is text and generic outreach gets ignored
You're fast
Useful but not required: hiring for AI/ML or data infra, hiring across both India and US, or having built a referral channel that actually produced hires.
Location: Bengaluru. In-person, not hybrid, not remote.