Forward Deployed Recruiter - SWE
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A forward-deployed recruiter embedded in high-stakes hiring environments to find, engage, and hire world-class talent. They build lightweight hiring foundations, use AI tools, and operate with high agency in fast-moving, ambiguous settings.
About this role
About Sxaler
Sxaler operates at the frontier of technology, combining intelligent systems with exceptional human judgement to identify, assess and acquire expert talent.
Our Forward Deployed Recruiters are high-agency problem solvers, with scaling scars earned across thousands of hiring cycles in the most competitive markets on Earth. We equip them with proprietary AI to make them fast and precise, leaving more room for their most valuable inputs.
We are incubating the revolution of recruitment as a profession, and looking for AI-pilled people to build the most effective talent proposition anywhere.
The Mission
You will be embedded directly inside the highest-stakes hiring environments on Earth; we call them missions. AI labs, frontier teams, companies building the infrastructure of the next decade. You'll operate as an extension of their brand and ours, hiring world-class talent whilst building effective hiring foundations which perfectly complement the humans-in-the-loop.
You will
Find and engage exceptional talent. Headhunt the best and engage them with compelling human outreach.
Apply sound judgement. Make frequent 'good calls' that lead to correct hiring decisions for world-class talent end to end.
Build talent foundations. Introduce 'just enough' process, systems and workflows to succeed at pace. You'll build the rhythm and infrastructure others inherit.
Influence people. Build trust through wisdom and relationship. People want you in the room and AI can't replace you.
Resolve complexity. Work in nascent environments for ambitious Founders with unreasonable expectations. You'll Solve problems rapidly with minimal structure, resources and patience.
Deploy technology. Embrace and stand-up agentic technology to become faster and more precise. Generate hiring-health data to paint compelling insights into progress.
We Hire People Who
Have spent time in the trenches as an operator, ideally in early/growth stage companies, as a critical part of the hiring process.
Are the person in the room with correct knowledge/instinct, and convincing enough for the authority to act on it.
Have built things using AI to make yourself more effective.
Treat chaos as opportunity and constraints as creative framework.
Thrives in ambiguity, bringing order where it's needed.
Communicates with patience supported by logic, data and experience.
Exercises infinite curiosity, exploring and tinkering with unfamiliar concepts to develop universal professional fluency.
Are high on emotional quotient and agency.
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