Recruiter, Character.ai
$150-170k
Office located in Redwood City, CA
AI natural language chatbot
Be an early applicant
AI natural language chatbot
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$150-170k
Office located in Redwood City, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone with Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience in a high-growth, fast-paced technology company
- Demonstrated ability to quickly develop fluency in complex technical domains and engage credibly with senior technical candidates
- Strong business judgment and stakeholder management skills, with a track record of influencing hiring decisions and closing high-impact candidates
- High ownership mindset with the ability to operate independently in ambiguous, fast-moving environments while knowing when to collaborate or escalate
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong interpersonal judgment, and the ability to give and receive direct, constructive feedback
- Analytical and data-driven approach to problem-solving, with a focus on continuous improvement
What the job involves
- This role goes beyond execution
- You will influence how we define talent, design rigorous and thoughtful interview processes, and compete for exceptional candidates in one of the most competitive markets in technology
- You’ll bring strong business judgment, technical curiosity, and a data-driven mindset to continuously elevate how we hire—ensuring an outstanding candidate experience alongside operational excellence
- If you thrive in high-growth environments, are motivated by building world-class teams, and want to play a direct role in scaling a frontier AI company, this is an opportunity to have meaningful, company-shaping impact
- Own the full recruiting lifecycle across technical and non-technical roles, including building robust talent pipelines, conducting screens, driving structured interviews and decision-making, advising on compensation, and closing exceptional candidates
- Serve as a strategic recruiting partner to leaders across Engineering (Safety, Product & Technical Foundations), Research Engineering, Product, and G&A
- Continuously improve and scale recruiting processes, designing structured, high-signal interview frameworks that balance candidate experience with interviewer efficiency
- Equip hiring teams with the tools, training, and best practices needed to attract and assess world-class talent
- Maintain rigorous data hygiene in Ashby and provide clear, actionable reporting on recruiting metrics and hiring goals
Our take
Search engines have long been a boon to productivity, but a long period of heavy advertising, content and SEO spam and malicious actors have limited the effectiveness of traditional keyword searching. Recently, conversational AI assistants have arrived, allowing non-specialists to navigate an increasingly difficult sea of data and return with relevant information, presented in a usable and sometimes very entertaining way.
Character.ai is one of the more recent entries in this increasingly crowded field that has only grown more heated since the public release of ChatGPT in late 2022. However, compared to Microsoft and OpenAI's offerings, Character.ai stands out with a more playful personality - its bots can mimic the voices of celebrities, historical persons and popular characters. This has led to users spending vastly more time interacting with Character.ai's bots compared to the competition: nearly three times longer on average than with ChatGPT, for instance.
Following a period of rapid user growth, Character.ai closed a major funding round at a valuation exceeding $1 billion. While it is currently enjoying meteoric success, in the longer term, Character.ai's challenge is to develop a funding model that will give it the staying power it needs to compete against OpenAI and other major firms in the market. A solution it is currently exploring is research-based partnerships with large companies such as Musk's xAI and Meta.
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Mar 2023
$150m
SERIES A
Total funding: $150m
Company benefits
- Top-notch health coverage for you & your family, with majority of the premium covered
- 💰 We invest in your future with a generous 401(K) contribution
- 🍼 New parents, we've got you covered with incredible paid leave -up to 20 weeks
- 🌴 4 weeks of PTO to explore, unwind & come back recharged
- 🍽️ Daily in-office catering plus a monthly Doordash stipend to help keep you fueled no matter where you are
- ✨ Monthly wellness stipend to support you in your health journey
Company HQ
Menlo Park, CA
Leadership
Karandeep Anand
(CEO)Previously Board Advisor at Character and Brex. Also worked as Vice President and Head of Business Products at Facebook and was a Partner Director at Microsoft.
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