Technical Recruiter

Percepta’s mission is to transform critical institutions with applied AI. We care that industries that power the world (e.g. healthcare, manufacturing, energy) benefit from frontier technology.

To make that happen, we embed with industry-leading customers to drive AI transformation. We bring together:

• Forward-deployed expertise in engineering, product, and research

• Mosaic, our in-house toolkit for rapidly deploying agentic workflows

• Strategic partnerships with Anthropic, McKinsey, AWS, companies within the General Catalyst portfolio, and more

Our team is a quickly growing group of Applied AI Engineers, Embedded Product Managers and Researchers motivated by diffusing the promise of AI into improvements we can feel in our day to day lives.

Percepta is a direct partnership with General Catalyst, a global transformation and investment company.

Percepta is seeking a Technical Recruiter to help us build our foundational team. This is a unique opportunity to be an early team member in which you will have a seat at the table and play a critical role in driving our sourcing and programmatic efforts. Recruiting is a key piece of our acceleration, and you are ready to run to meet the moment with our business and team. You will work collaboratively with our Head of Recruiting, Jackie Goldstein, as well as with our founding team, building pipelines and processes to grow our teams by serving as a subject matter expert and trusted business partner.

The ideal person for this role has strong sourcing skills and a track record of maintaining a healthy pipeline of technical candidates, all while staying current on micro and macro market shifts. You also have a programmatic side and are eager to shape events and initiatives that attract world-class talent. In a perfect world, you are interested in the early-talent space and eager to build deep partnerships with universities and other institutions. You are also someone who loves to think bigger, and always has a vision for how things could be improved, iterated upon to create a lasting positive impressions on candidates and the business at large. Lastly, you are a strong collaborator who enjoys the autonomy to build what is needed to attract and close the best talent in a competitive market while also collaborating and brainstorming closely with the team.

What you will do

• Lead and drive a full-cycle recruitment process from sourcing to closing, ensuring an unquestionably outstanding candidate experience that reflects Percepta’s values and culture.

• Proactively and creatively identify, attract, and source exceptional future Perceptrons via innovative sourcing strategies and programmatic initiatives.

• Continuously iterate on ways to raise the bar and encourage thoughtful dialogue and criticality around each role and hire.

• Build deep trust + partnership with candidates and stakeholders alike.

• Communicate regularly + clearly with candidates, HMs, and other internal stakeholders.

• Use a data driven approach by maintaining, collecting, and analyzing data to provide credible and research backed updates, recommendations, and ideas while also considering edge cases.

• Guide and coach candidates and interviewers alike throughout the hiring process, providing timely updates, feedback, and any other relevant information.

• Identify gaps or areas for improvement within current recruiting processes and offer solutions and recommendations to help positively improve the recruiting team.

About You

• 5+ years of experience in a full-cycle technical recruiting capacity.

• At least 3 years of experience as an in house technical recruiter strongly preferred, ideally at high-growth tech startups.

• Ability to "tastemake" and come with opinions on candidates as well as best practices.

• Genuine interest and enthusiasm of the recruiting process and the relationships you build.

• Deep empathy and desire to provide the highest level of experience possible in service to our candidates.

• Ability and desire to be in person in our office in SoHo, NYC.

• Demonstrated track record of identifying and hiring exceptional candidates in high-growth environments.

• Proven negotiation and closing skills.

• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.

Dream bigger: We have the unique privilege of taking on the most ambitious problems and we should chase them with optimism, responsibility, and genuine belief that we can make it happen. We have to embrace the hard things when no one else will.
Heart in the game: What we're doing matters and we have to give a shit. Internally, that means fixing badness when you find it. Externally, it means honoring the trust our customers place in us with their most important problems. This isn’t a 9-5, nor is it a job we’re ever going to monitor your hours. We promise to put work in front of you that matters and in return, we ask you to promise to care.
Win for the customer: Everyone is an engineer and the job of an engineer is to deliver outcomes, not outputs. Everything we do—the products we build, the partnerships we launch, the strategy we set—exists to make our customers successful. Delivery is the strategy.
Make the call: Organizations are only as strong as the pace at which they make decisions. Everyone at Percepta should feel empowered to commit and shape the ambiguity in front of them. But "make the call" cuts both ways: make the decision and make the phone call. High-agency decision-making only works with high-bandwidth communication and we commit to never operate in silos.
Intensity with kindness: We believe in excellence in execution, candor in feedback, ruthlessness in prioritization, and survivalist urgency. We also believe you don't need to be an asshole to deliver on any of this. The trust built through shared kindness and vulnerability is what makes the intensity sustainable.

We’re working against an incredibly ambitious mission. It won’t be easy, but it will likely be the most fulfilling work of your career. If this excites you, let's chat, even if you don't meet all of the qualifications above.

Dream bigger: We have the unique privilege of taking on the most ambitious problems and we should chase them with optimism, responsibility, and genuine belief that we can make it happen. We have to embrace the hard things when no one else will.
Heart in the game: What we're doing matters and we have to give a shit. Internally, that means fixing badness when you find it. Externally, it means honoring the trust our customers place in us with their most important problems. This isn’t a 9-5, nor is it a job we’re ever going to monitor your hours. We promise to put work in front of you that matters and in return, we ask you to promise to care.
Win for the customer: Everyone is an engineer and the job of an engineer is to deliver outcomes, not outputs. Everything we do—the products we build, the partnerships we launch, the strategy we set—exists to make our customers successful. Delivery is the strategy.
Make the call: Organizations are only as strong as the pace at which they make decisions. Everyone at Percepta should feel empowered to commit and shape the ambiguity in front of them. But "make the call" cuts both ways: make the decision and make the phone call. High-agency decision-making only works with high-bandwidth communication and we commit to never operate in silos.
Intensity with kindness: We believe in excellence in execution, candor in feedback, ruthlessness in prioritization, and survivalist urgency. We also believe you don't need to be an asshole to deliver on any of this. The trust built through shared kindness and vulnerability is what makes the intensity sustainable.