Founding Recruiter
TLDR: We're looking for a Founding Recruiter to join our early team. You’ll be instrumental in finding, evaluating, and hiring top talent for White Circle - ranging from AI engineers to GTM to Product.
This isn't a coordination role. Nor is this a quick path to management. This is a role where you’ll be deep in the weeds of sourcing and recruiting. You’ll be entrusted with more autonomy than you’re likely comfortable with. And you’ll be integral to scaling our most precious asset: our team.
About us
White Circle is an AI Safety company building the safety, reliability, and optimization layer for AI systems. At the core of our platform are policies – simple natural-language rules that define what an AI model should and shouldn’t do. We automatically test, enforce, and continuously improve these policies at scale.
We’ve raised $11M from top funds, founders, and senior leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, HuggingFace, Mistral, DeepMind, Datadog, Sentry, and others
We process over one hundred million API calls every month
We fine-tune and train our own LLMs so they run faster and cheaper than any open or proprietary model
We’re a small, highly focused team. If you want to work deeply on hard problems, see your work ship to production quickly, and influence how AI safety is actually built – you’re the one we need.
What you'll do
Own end-to-end recruiting for roles across all functions - sourcing, screening, coordinating, closing - with a heavy emphasis on identifying, connecting with, and hiring top technical talent internationally
Go out of your way to identify top talent at a global scale
Think several steps ahead when it comes to building our team; what we’ll need as we hit growth milestones, and how to best prepare ourselves for when we get there
Build and manage our talent infrastructure: including our ATS, sourcing tools, interview frameworks, etc
Partner directly with our founder and team leads to deeply understand hiring needs and translate them into effective searches
Get creative with where we seek and how we connect with top talent
Drive a candidate experience that reflects who we are
Track and report on recruiting metrics to improve speed and quality over time
Help us think about employer brand and how we show up to the talent market
What we’re looking for
We aren’t looking at tenure as a sign of your success - we are looking at your impact, results, and growth delta. As such: if you are early in your career but are a top performer and hungry to take on more responsibility, we’d love to hear from you.
Proven experience sourcing and hiring top tier technical talent in/for a startup environment, ideally in an international setting
Exposure to hiring for AI, ML, or AI safety roles is a strong plus
Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building process where none exists
Strong sourcing instincts; you are a hunter, and the thrill of the hunt motivates you
Innate intensity and ambition to do great things, and
Clear communicator who earns trust quickly with candidates and hiring managers alike
Perks + Benefits
Salary: 60k-90k EUR + equity
20 days paid vacation
Hybrid: Paris or London
All subscriptions provided
Team off-sites twice a year (recently: Alps and Saint-Tropez)
Please submit your application in English - it’s our official company language.