Head of Talent
AIFund
Full-time
On-site
Mountain View, California, United States
HR Leader
About AI Fund
AI Fund is an early-stage venture studio founded by Andrew Ng. We build and grow AI companies from zero to one by originating ideas, then recruiting and partnering with founders to turn those ideas into businesses. AI Fund moves fast. In a matter of weeks, we turn ideas into funded, operating companies. Talent is the lever that makes this possible.
About the Role
You will lead AI Fund’s talent function, with overall responsibility for strategy, execution and people leadership of this function. We think this is the best place to rethink what recruiting in the era of AI will look like, you will further lead reinventing how we identify, engage, and hire talent in the AI era, particularly technical talent. This role reports directly to Andrew, and you will be responsible for recruiting for AI Fund’s internal team and will work closely with the AI Fund leadership team, to hire founders to build companies with us. Additionally, you will work directly with CEOs to build their founding teams. You will manage a team of recruiters, and set the standard for how modern, AI-enabled recruiting should work. We are extremely excited about recruiting in 2026 and beyond, which we expect to be drastically better than the world of 2022 before modern AI came on the scene. We are looking for a GenAI-forward operator who is already actively using AI, and is excited to level up their efforts significantly. We envision not just transforming individual tasks in recruiting such as sourcing, research, outreach, screening, calibration, and decision-making, but rethinking how startup and VC functions should work in the AI era. With AI, we’d like to see 5x improvements, not incremental 5% gains. As part of this role, you will also collaborate closely with our ecosystem teams, some of which are developing new AI tools that will support your work.
Talent Strategy & Leadership
- Serve as Head of Talent for AI Fund, owning recruiting at AI Fund and supporting our portfolio companies’ recruiting.
- Lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing team of recruiters; set clear standards for quality, velocity, and candidate experience.
- Partner directly with AI Fund leadership and portfolio CEOs to rapidly hire great talent into our teams.
- Bring structure, clarity, and rigor to an environment that moves fast and operates with high ambiguity.
Executive & Technical Hiring
- Own end-to-end recruiting for AI Fund’s internal team and startup leadership roles, including specifically hiring the technical co-founder/CEO to lead our startups.
- After a startup is formed, further assist it directly with building up the first few members of their team.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to founders on org design, compensation philosophy, leveraging AI Fund and our ecosystem resources when appropriate.
GenAI-Enabled Recruiting Systems
- Rethink how recruiting should work in the AI era, for example by deploying AI-powered workflows across the full cycle of recruiting.
- Partner with AI Fund and ecosystem engineers to improve our AI-enabled recruiting tools.
- Go beyond point solutions that eke out incremental efficiency gains. Instead, take bold steps to redesigning the entire recruiting workflow, taking advantage of AI technology and our ecosystem capabilities.
- Nurture the software development and invention capabilities of our recruiting team. Everyone at AI Fund, including all of our recruiters, know how to code (with AI assistance) and is involved in building custom recruiting software. This puts us well ahead of most other recruiting teams. You will extend this lead and use these capabilities to invent new ways to approach talent.
Candidate Experience & Employer Brand
- Ensure and scale a transparent, respectful, and high-touch candidate experience, even at high volume.
- Design processes to make sure AI Fund and its portfolio are showing up credibly, warmly and authentically to candidates.
Data, Process & Scale
- Define, track, and analyze recruiting funnel metrics, including time-to-fill, conversion rates, source quality, and quality-of-hire signals.
- Establish scalable workflows, scorecards, and interview frameworks that maintain quality even as AI Fund scales.
What we are looking for
- 5+ years of hands on full-cycle recruiting experience, including at least 3+ in senior technical leadership or executive recruiting.
- Experience managing a team of recruiters, ideally technical recruiters Proven success hiring AI, engineering, or deeply technical talent in early stage environments (where compensation is heavily weighted toward equity or other long term incentives rather than cash)
- Basic coding ability (using AI to code for you is fine), and/or a strong desire and aptitude to learn. Ideally also experience using generative AI to design, build, and iterate on recruiting workflows
- Must have GenAI-forward mindset & traits: You actively use AI tools in your daily work and are eager to work hard, keep experimenting, and personally stay at the forefront of this field.
- Leadership & gravitas: You can confidently partner with founders, CEOs, and senior executives.
- Ownership: You operate urgently and with accountability and are willing to do the hard work required to build something exceptional.
- Systems thinker: You think in workflows, leverage data, and care deeply about repeatability and scale.
Bonus Points
- Experience building recruiting functions, playbooks, or operations from zero to one.
- Experience with HR functions (such as performance management, compensation and benefits, training and development, HR-related compliance, employee relations)
- Familiarity with venture studios or venture capital firms, startups, or founder-led organizations.
- Experience devising and executing against successful event strategies that can drive candidate flow and engagement with the firm at scale.
Why AI Fund
- You’ll work directly with one of AI’s most respected pioneers and build the talent engine for a portfolio of companies shaping the future of AI.
- Through access to our ecosystem of companies, you will be uniquely positioned to see where AI is actually going, and will have the resources and network needed to shape how talent works.
- You’ll have a front-row seat to AI Fund's unique venture studio model, where ideas transform into funded, launched companies in 10 weeks
- Competitive compensation including equity participation in AI Fund's success.
At AI Fund, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. AI Fund believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
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.