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Talent Acquisition Partner

Generalist AI· People
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San Francisco Bay Area (San Mateo) or Boston (Somerville)Full-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Talent Acquisition Partner at Generalist, focused on building thoughtful talent strategies, mapping candidate ecosystems, and partnering with senior technical leaders to design and scale the hiring engine across San Francisco Bay Area or Boston.

Responsibilities

  • End-to-end search ownership. Manage intake, strategy, sourcing, screening, loop design, closing, and seamless handoffs to onboarding across key critical searches.
  • Proactive talent mapping. Map target domains early to identify prospective candidates thoughtfully, especially in areas where our network is still expanding.
  • Targeted sourcing. Explore publications, conferences, repositories, and referral networks to craft meaningful, highly personalized candidate outreach.
  • Modern tooling & AI integration. Leverage AI tools for research, enrichment, and workflow enhancement while maintaining high accuracy and sound quality standards.
  • Data-informed insights. Track pipeline conversion, channel effectiveness, and feedback loops to guide team decisions and optimize our overall strategy.
  • Hiring manager partnership. Collaborate closely on role scoping, calibration, interview loops, interviewer preparation, and debrief facilitation.
  • Candidate engagement & closing. Articulate our mission, technical scope, and team density to effectively invite candidates to join our growth journey.
  • Structured operations. Maintain clean data, reliable scheduling, and structured interviewing practices within Ashby to ensure an efficient experience for everyone.
  • External partnerships. Collaborate with and manage external agencies effectively to supplement internal sourcing capabilities as needed.
  • Multi-site collaboration. Support in-person hiring efforts across our San Francisco and Boston locations, including occasional site visits and key industry events.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years full-cycle technical recruiting
  • A track record of closing senior technical hires who had competing offers — with specifics you can walk us through
  • Real passive-sourcing depth. You have built named-target searches from a blank page in a domain you did not previously know, and hired from them
  • Data fluency. You can build a funnel, find the leak, and use the result to change a hiring manager's mind. Comfort with ATS reporting and with a spreadsheet you built yourself
  • Working, current use of AI tooling in your own workflow, with judgment about where it helps and where it fabricates
  • Exceptional written communication. Outreach, briefs, and internal recommendations that get read and acted on
  • Genuine technical curiosity. You do not need to have trained a model, but you should want to know why one architecture beat another, and you should be able to read an abstract and work out whether the author is relevant to us
  • Strong relationship management under pressure — candidates, hiring managers, and agencies — while holding a bar
  • Based in San Francisco or Boston, in person.

Skills

Required:End-to-end recruiting processPassive candidate sourcingData-driven recruitmentAI tooling in recruitingStakeholder managementCommunication
Last updated Sep 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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