Lead Technical Recruiter - USA

Inworld is a research lab of top researchers and engineers, building the world’s top-ranked realtime voice models.

Today our models are the #1 ranked realtime voice models in the world.

They are used to power the largest consumer-facing AI applications available, across categories like health, fitness, learning, therapy, companions, customer experience and media; representing 100s of millions of end users.

Our work spans areas like research and development of state-of-the-art models, optimizing realtime inference, and creating best-in-class APIs and products that allow developers to engage their users.

We’ve raised more than $125M from Lightspeed, Section 32, Kleiner Perkins, Microsoft’s M12 venture fund, Founders Fund, Meta and Stanford, among others.

Our technology has powered experiences from companies such as NVIDIA, Microsoft Xbox, Niantic, Logitech Streamlabs, Wishroll, Little Umbrella and Bible Chat.

We’ve also been recognized by CB Insights as one of the 100 most promising AI companies globally and have been named one of LinkedIn’s Top 10 Startups in the USA.

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.

What you'll be doing

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