GTM and Business Recruiter
San FranciscoFull-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
GTM and Business Recruiter role in a fast-moving foundational AI company, building the talent engine from scratch and hiring across Go to Market and business functions while collaborating directly with the CEO and founding team in San Francisco.
Responsibilities
- Source, engage, and close individual contributors and leaders for a broad range of roles at UniversalAGI
- Build and execute creative sourcing strategies to identify talent in specialized niches like automotive/aerospace/maritime, computational physicists, applied mathematicians, and systems engineers
- Own the entire candidate pipeline from initial identification through offer acceptance, managing 50+ active candidates simultaneously while maintaining exceptional candidate experience
- Partner directly with the CEO & Hiring Managers to understand role requirements, ideal candidate profiles, and competitive landscape- then execute with relentless urgency
- Build and maintain a robust talent pipeline that stays weeks ahead of hiring needs, ensuring we never slow down due to lack of qualified candidates
- Design and optimize recruiting workflows, tools, and processes that scale with our hypergrowth while maintaining quality
- Track, analyze, and optimize key recruiting metrics: pipeline conversion rates, time-to-hire, source effectiveness, offer acceptance rates, and candidate quality scores
- Represent UniversalAGI at conferences, meetups, and relevant communities, building employer brand in AI and deep tech circles
Qualifications
- 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with a strong track record of sourcing and closing exceptional GTM and business talent in high-growth or highly competitive environments
- Demonstrated success recruiting senior individual contributors and leaders across enterprise sales, business development, strategic partnerships, customer success, revenue operations, and other business teams
- Strong commercial judgment, assessing candidates based on experience, customers, buyers, deal complexity, technical depth, and ownership
- Ability to quickly learn new industries and technical domains, build credible talent maps, and adapt search strategies across sectors such as aerospace and defense, automotive, energy, maritime
- Exceptional partnership and communication skills, including working with founders and functional leaders to define profiles and close top candidates
- Deep commitment to candidate experience with clarity, speed, and conviction
- Outstanding execution velocity and delivery, managing multiple pipelines and hitting aggressive hiring targets
- Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills, engaging passive candidates and building long-term talent networks
- Data-driven mindset with analytical skills to optimize recruiting funnels and improve conversion rates
- Comfortable working in high-intensity startup environments with evolving priorities and tight deadlines
Benefits
- Competitive compensation with equity upside
- Competitive health, dental, vision benefits paid by the company
- 401(k) plan
- Flexible vacation
- Team building & fun activities
- Great scope, ownership and impact
- AI tools stipend
- Monthly commute stipend
- Monthly wellness/fitness stipend
- Daily office lunch & dinner covered by the company
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About UniversalAGI
Foundation models for automating physical systems engineering
The platform for engineering teams building and operating Physics AI at scale. Predict aerodynamic performance, structural loads, and thermal behavior in seconds.
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