Senior Recruiter

Handshake was founded on a simple belief that everyone deserves a path to a great career regardless of where they went to school or who they know. Today we power 25 million job seekers 1 million employers and 1600 educational institutions.

In 2025 we started Handshake AI and built the fastest-growing AI data business in history. We work directly with frontier AI lab researchers to create evaluations publish benchmarks and push the boundary of data. Weve grown from $0 to $1B run rate and pay $60M to over 30K individuals every month.

Why join Handshake now:

• Shape how every career evolves in the AI economy at global scale with impact your friends family and peers can see and feel

• Partner hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs Fortune 500 partners and the worlds top educational institutions

• Work together with engineers scientists operators and more from Palantir Meta Scale AI and former YC founders

• Build a massive fast-growing business with billions in revenue

About Handshake AI

Human data is the core infrastructure to AI advancement. Frontier AI labs currently improve model capabilities with various data-intensive post-training techniques. We believe that data spend for AI training will increase by 3-5x in the next few years and continue for much longer as models take on new domains. Handshake AI supports all of the frontier AI labs working on their most complex data at the largest scale.

Handshake is hiring a Senior Recruiter to lead hiring efforts for strategic business and operational roles. Youll partner closely with senior management to shape and scale critical functions that power Handshake AIs next phase of growth.

This role requires a background in hiring strategy and business operations professionals as well as the ability to translate evolving company needs into effective hiring strategies. Youll be a trusted advisor to stakeholders across the business and a key contributor to building high-performing mission-aligned teams.

This role requires working five days in-office at our Seattle office location.

• Strategic Talent Partner: Partner with executives and hiring managers to understand org design needs influence headcount planning and advise on the best hiring strategies for operations and G&A roles.

• Full-Cycle Ownership: Lead the end-to-end recruitment processfrom sourcing and screening through interviews offer negotiation and close.

• Pipeline Development: Build candidate pools for hard-to-fill key roles. Search for possible hires in different locations. Connect with those not currently job hunting and keep in touch with them regularly.

• Market Intelligence: Provide insights on talent trends compensation benchmarks and competitive dynamics to inform hiring decisions and set expectations.

• Operational Excellence: Drive continuous improvement in recruiting processes leveraging data to optimize performance and deliver against key metrics.

• Extraordinary Candidate Experience: Ensure every candidate has a high-quality values-aligned experience that reflects our brand and culture.

• Recruiting Expertise: 5 years of full-cycle recruiting experience with a solid track record hiring for strategic business and operations functions (e.g. BizOps Corporate Strategy Finance Legal Marketing).

• Strategic Acumen: Deep knowledge of business operations and organizational strategy; able to contextualize roles within the broader business and influence how theyre scoped.

• Executive Partnership: Skilled at building trust and credibility with senior leaders; capable of pushing back thoughtfully and guiding decisions with data and insights.

• Sourcing Mastery: Experience sourcing for niche and high-impact roles using tools like LinkedIn Recruiter Boolean search CRM and industry networks.

• Process-Oriented: Comfortable working in structured recruiting environments and optimizing processes in an ATS (e.g. Ashby Greenhouse).

• Analytical Approach: Data-driven mindset with the ability to track report and iterate on recruiting performance and hiring funnel metrics.

• Great Communicator: Robust written and verbal communication skills with the ability to craft compelling outreach and articulate value propositions.

Handshake delivers benefits that help you feel supportedand thrive at work and in life.

The below benefits are for full-time US employees.

Ownership: Equity in a fast-growing company

Financial Wellness: 401(k) match competitive compensation financial coaching

Family Support: Paid parental leave fertility benefits parental coaching

Wellbeing: Medical dental and vision mental health support wellness stipend

Growth: Learning stipend ongoing development

Remote & Office: Internet commuting and free lunch/gym in our SF office

Time Off: Flexible PTO 15 holidays 2 flex days

Connection: Team outings & referral bonuses

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