Lead Technical Recruiter, Inworld AI
USA
$160-260k
Plus bonus + equity
Office located in Mountain View, CA
AI-powered characters for virtual environments
Be an early applicant
AI-powered characters for virtual environments
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$160-260k
Plus bonus + equity
Office located in Mountain View, CA
21-100 employees
Company mission
To transform static software into living AI systems that autonomously evolve to better serve their users.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, including several years supporting senior and hard-to-fill technical roles
- Deep understanding of technical roles, experience hiring in AI/ML, infrastructure, or research environments strongly preferred
- Versatility to run GTM, marketing, or business searches alongside your core technical focus
- A track record of closing exceptional senior talent in highly competitive markets
- Fluency with recruiting data, you use metrics to drive strategy, influence stakeholders, and hold searches accountable
- A builder's mindset, you love creating tools, automation, and processes, you prototype fast and improve as you go
- Hands-on fluency with AI assistants, you already use them daily, and you're always finding new ways to work smarter while maintaining a human-centered approach
- Proficiency with a modern AI-native recruiting stack
- Experience partnering directly with executives and hiring managers as a trusted advisor
- Experience in retained executive search, or as a strategic search partner to founders and executives, is a strong plus
- You operate with high ownership, you don't wait for direction, you set it
- You thrive in a fast-moving startup environment and stay effective amid ambiguity and shifting priorities
- You love optimizing workflows and constantly look for ways to improve how the team works
- You hold a high bar, for candidates, for process quality, and for yourself
- You're organized, prioritize ruthlessly, and communicate clearly with stakeholders at every level
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Recruiting Lead to fuel our growth with extraordinary talent
- This is a senior, high-ownership role: you'll act as a true talent partner to our founders and leadership across engineering, research, and business hiring as we scale
- You'll own searches end to end, raise the bar on how we hire, and help shape the recruiting function itself
- Own our most critical and senior searches end to end, operating as an executive search partner to our founders, from talent strategy and market mapping through offer and close
- Act as a strategic advisor to hiring managers and leadership: shape role definitions, calibrate expectations, and design search strategies and execute them
- Build deep pipelines of exceptional AI, engineering, research, and business talent through creative sourcing and long-term relationship building with passive candidates
- Use data to drive decisions, track funnel health, diagnose bottlenecks, and report on hiring progress with rigor
- Apply AI to recruiting: use assistants like Claude and AI-native sourcing and automation tools to automate workflows and build tooling that makes the whole team faster, while keeping candidate touchpoint personal and high-touch
- Elevate our recruiting practice: improve processes, sharpen interviewer quality, ensure an exceptional candidate experience, and mentor others on the team
- Represent Inworld in the market as a compelling, credible ambassador for our mission and culture
Our take
Dialogue writing for video games has traditionally been a matter of branching conversations based on player input, but this is a time-consuming and complicated process. In modern virtual environments which can contain thousands of characters, the need to save on costs means that conversations with many characters can be shallow and repetitive. Inworld AI's solution allows for the creation of unique and flexible interactions for even the most minor characters, based on just a few descriptive sentences.
Since launching, Inworld has quickly grown from an AI-character startup into one of the key players powering consumer AI. Its early work with companies like Xbox, Disney, and NBCUniversal helped provide the value of real-time AI experiences, and now a wide range of media companies, game studios, and fast-growing startups are building on its platform.
Now, with the recent release of Inworld Runtime, the company is taking an even bigger step. By opening up the internal system they originally built to handle huge, real-time consumer workloads, Inworld is positioning Runtime as the go-to backend for any team looking to scale from an idea to millions of users. Its adaptive graphs, automated MLOps, and one-click experiments remove most of the painful engineering work that usually slows teams now. And for Inworld, this turns Runtime into more than just a product; it becomes the core of the company's future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Aug 2023
$50m
SERIES A
Aug 2022
$50m
SERIES A
Total funding: $117m
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Ilya Gelfenbeyn
(Co-Founder & Executive Chairman)Previously co-founded API.AI (now known as Google Dialogflow), a developer platform for building conversational experiences, and served as its CEO before Google acquired the company in 2016. The company also built Assistant.ai, the highest-rated independent voice assistant in the world with 40M+ users. Ilya was also the Founding Head of the Google Assistant Investments program at Google.
Michael Ermolenko
(Co-Founder & CTO)Michael has extensive experience in leading AI teams and led Machine Learning Development at API.ai and the Dialogflow NLU/AI team at Google.
Kylan Gibbs
(Co-Founder & CEO)Kylan has a background in turning advanced AI into products that naturally interact with humans. They came from DeepMind, where they led products for Conversational AI and Generative Models. Prior, Kylan worked on enterprise Machine Learning projects at Bain & Company.
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