Lead Recruiter (GenAI-Forward)

Lead Recruiter (GenAI-Forward)

Mountain View, CA

DeepLearning.AI Operation / Full time / On-site

About the Role

DeepLearning.AI is seeking a GenAI-forward Lead Recruiter to help shape the future of AI talent acquisition. You'll partner closely with Andrew Ng to identify, engage, and hire exceptional talent, with an emphasis on technical roles. Additionally, you will work with our engineering team, which will build custom AI tools to support this work.

This is not a traditional recruiting role. We're looking for someone who uses (or is excited to learn how to use) Generative AI tools to supercharge sourcing, outreach, screening, and candidate experience.

You should thrive in an experimental, fast-moving environment where we iterate weekly and rapidly improve our recruiting processes. We also expect you to be hardworking, and eager to do the considerable amount of work ahead to innovate on AI-enabled recruiting.

Join us to build the next generation of recruiting, which will be highly AI-enabled!

What You'll Do

Strategic Recruiting

Partner directly with Andrew Ng and cross-functional leaders to define hiring priorities and build pipelines primarily for technology roles, including both senior technology leadership roles and more junior engineering roles.

Lead full-cycle recruitingfrom sourcing and outreach to offer closefor high-impact roles across DeepLearning.AI our ecosystem of companies.

Bring structure, clarity, and rigor to a fast-scaling environment while keeping the human touch at the center of the process.

GenAI-Driven Recruiting Workflows

Experiment with AI-powered tools to increase top-of-funnel efficiency (LLM-based candidate research, automated outreach, intelligent screening, etc.)

Partner with our engineering team to guide what AI-enabled recruiting tools they build to support your recruiting workflow. This is a chance for you to have innovative ideas on AI-enabled recruiting, and see your ideas turn into reality!

Build and refine playbooks for how AI can augment recruiter productivity. We are not interested in a 10% improvement. We want to rethink the playbook to give us a 10x improvement.

Candidate Experience & Brand

Represent DeepLearning.AI 's brand and culture authentically to senior and junior candidates.

Ensure a top-notch candidate journey that reflects honesty and respect.

Partner with communications and leadership teams to refine messaging that resonates with the AI community.

Data & Process Excellence

Track and analyze recruiting metrics to inform decision-making and continuous improvement.

Establish scalable workflows that maintain quality as we grow.

What We're Looking For

Experience

Recruiting experience, ideally including senior or executive-level hiring.

Demonstrated success recruiting top talent in AI, engineering, or tech.

Ability to thrive in a startup or high-growth, fast moving environment.

Mindset

GenAI-Forward : You actively use (and are eager to experiment with) AI tools to improve your work.

Gravitas : You can confidently represent the company and engage senior leaders.

Ownership and work ethic : You have a strong sense of ownership and will do what it takes to move the project forward.

Bonus Points

Basic coding ability (including using AI to write code for you).

Experience building or leading recruiting operations.

Familiarity with AI or technical talent markets.

$120,000 - $220,000 a year

Why DeepLearning.AI

Founded by Andrew Ng, DeepLearning.AI is working to empower everyone to build with AI. Our community includes millions of learners, engineers, and innovators shaping the future of the field, and we work closely with AI Fund, AI Aspire, and our broader ecosystem of companies (including 40+ AI Fund portfolio companies) on recruiting.

This is an opportunity to work directly with one of AI's most respected pioneers and help build a talent engine that drives impact across education, research, and industry.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.