Business Talent Acquisition Lead

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end recruiting for business and operations roles — sourcing, screening, interviewing, and closing top-tier candidates across Strategic Projects, Operations, GTM, and other key business functions.
• Build deep, proactive talent pipelines from elite finance, consulting, PE, and tech firms.
• Partner directly with the executive and founding team to define hiring profiles, prioritize searches, and design rigorous interview processes.
• Drive recruiting infrastructure across the company — scorecards, interview rubrics, sourcing tooling, candidate experience, and offer-and-close motion.
• Close candidates and represent AfterQuery's mission compellingly to the highest-bar talent in the market.
• Treat recruiting as a measurable function — instrument the funnel, model conversion at every stage, and iterate.

Requirements

• 5-10+ years of experience across agency and in-house recruiting, with a track record of identifying, attracting, and closing elite talent.
• Intense work ethic, agency, and drive; comfortable thriving in ambiguity as a builder.
• Strong leadership and communication skills; able to hold own opposite founders, traders, or GTM leaders.
• Genuine interest in AI and AfterQuery's thesis around human data.
• High agency, low ego, speedy but thoughtful; comfortable in a 5-day in-office SF environment.

Nice-to-haves

• Ex-recruiting at a top executive search firm (Spencer Stuart, Heidrick, Egon Zehnder, Russell Reynolds, True Search, Daversa).
• Proven track record scaling recruiting operations through rapid headcount growth.
• Prior experience hiring for finance, consulting, PE, or operationally rigorous business roles, with a personal network in those pools.
• Experience making a pivot into AI from finance, consulting, search, or operating roles.