Associate Manager, Talent Acquisition

About A1 Our mission is to help in distributing intelligence to the world. A1 is building a proactive AI smart assistant for everyday users to bring intelligence to conversations, errands, organising and workflows. Our product focuses on achieving high reliability for long-running workflows, persistent context, and real-world task completion. The system must handle multi-step reasoning, interact with external tools, and remain reliable despite non-deterministic model behavior. About the Role You will lead hiring across software engineering functions including backend, mobile, desktop, infrastructure, and product engineering. You will partner closely with founding teams, leadership and engineering leaders to identify and attract high-caliber talent globally. This role requires strong judgment, speed, sourcing ability, and deep understanding of engineering talent quality beyond resumes and brand names. What You'll Be Doing - Own end-to-end hiring across assigned roles - from intake to close - Build pipelines from scratch using direct sourcing, referrals, and targeted outreach - Drive hiring decisions with clear signals, not just interview feedback - Keep processes moving - remove delays, chase feedback, close candidates - Redesign interview questions, scorecards, and assessments to raise hiring bar - Recruitment processes - improve speed, quality, and consistency across hiring - Build employer presence through content, messaging, and candidate experience What You'll Need - Proven experience in recruiting / talent acquisition (in-house or agency) - Proven track record of closing roles in a fast-paced environment - Strong sourcing ability - able to generate pipelines without relying on inbound - Good judgment - able to identify strong candidates beyond resumes - Ability to manage multiple roles with speed and consistency - Willingness to challenge and improve existing processes - Clear, direct communication with hiring managers and candidates - Comfortable operating with ambiguity and high expectations How We Work The best products in the world are built by small, highly capable teams. We operate with high talent density, fast execution speed, and strong ownership. We care deeply about product quality, clear thinking, and practical execution. This is a hands-on environment. Everyone is expected to contribute directly, operate independently, and make good decisions under ambiguity. Interview Process If there appears to be a fit, we will schedule up to 3 interviews. Applications are reviewed by members of our hiring teams. Interviews may be conducted virtually or onsite. We value speed, transparency and decisiveness throughout the process.