Lead Technical Recruiter

Title: Lead Technical Recruiter Location: San Francisco Tolan is building personal AI that helps people think, reflect, and take action in their real lives. We're an experienced team that previously founded Even, acquired for $300M in 2022. Tolan is backed by the designers and founders behind Instagram, Retro, Behance, Vimeo, and Notion. THE ROLE We’re hiring a Lead Technical Recruiter to partner with our engineering & product teams, as well as our founders, to source, sell, and close the best engineers and designers in the world. This will be a low-volume, high-craft effort that drives tremendous impact for our organization. The right person for this role cares deeply about the art & science of recruiting and works well in ambiguous, fast-paced startup environments. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Source and hire top-tier engineering and design talent. - Leverage AI as a force multiplier (you will have an unlimited token budget). - Build recruiting ops infrastructure, tooling, and programming in partnership with executives. - Procure and manage third party resources (agencies, embedded firms) to supplement your efforts. WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR - Relevant experience. You have 2+ years of experience hiring technical roles at growth stage startups. - High-stakes operator. The hires you’ve made accelerated the trajectories of companies and created real enterprise value. - Elite stakeholder management. You’ve supported best-in-class founders, executives, and other hiring managers. - AI-curious. You have experience (or a deep interest in) using the latest AI tools to execute recruiting work at scale. - Thrives in ambiguity. You have the “just figure it out” quality that is essential for any recruiter in startups. A NOTE ABOUT THE TOLAN RECRUITING TEAM Together with our Head of Talent this person will form the nucleus of the Tolan Recruiting org. This person will own all of Tech & Design hiring and will have a direct line into our Founders (CEO Quinten and CTO Evan