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Founding AI Recruiter — Prism

We're building Prism: an AI-native recruitment agency. Not "an agency that uses AI" — an agency where the day-to-day workflow is human + AI by default, and the AI does the parts that used to require a team of ten. We're a YC-backed London startup.

We're looking for our founding recruiter. Someone who wants to compete head-to-head with the best agencies on earth and win — because they have leverage no one else has.

What you'll actually do

Run end-to-end searches with AI as your co-pilot. Take a brief, calibrate the spec, source globally, write outreach, manage replies, shortlist, submit, close. Prism's tooling does the heavy lifting on sourcing and screening; you bring the judgement, the relationships, and the close.
Win on contested roles. A lot of our work comes through marketplaces and contingent briefs where multiple agencies are racing for the same placement. You need to be faster, sharper, and have a higher hit rate than the field.
Own clients. Build the relationship, take the brief well, push back when the spec is wrong, deliver candidates the client actually wants to interview.
Help shape the product. You'll be the most demanding user of Prism. When the AI is wrong, you tell us. When a workflow sucks, we fix it. Founding-team-level input on what we build next.

Who we're looking for

Proven recruiter — 3+ years. You've placed people, repeatedly. Ideally agency / contingent / search-firm side, where the win matters. Tech, product, engineering, GTM, finance — any function, as long as you've been good at it. Track record beats years.
Startup mindset. You've worked at a startup, ideally an early one. You like ambiguity, ship fast, and don't need a corporate process to function. Bonus if it was YC or YC-adjacent.
AI-fluent or AI-curious-and-fast. You don't need to know LLMs deeply. You do need to be the kind of person who, given a new tool, gets ridiculously good at it in a week.
Hungry. You want to be measured on placements and you want the upside that comes with that.
Written communication. Most candidate touchpoints are written. You write well — clear, human, not "synergy-leveraging."
Honest. You push back on bad briefs. You tell candidates the truth. We don't run on bullshit.

Where you work

London preferred. We're a London-based team and there's a real benefit to being in the room with us, especially early.
Office is available, not mandatory. Hybrid is fine. Fully remote is fine if you're exceptional and your hours overlap UK working hours meaningfully.
Open globally for the right person. If you're the best AI-native recruiter on the planet and you live in São Paulo or Singapore, we want to talk.

Compensation

Fair base. It is not "fintech-in-2021 incredible" — we're early. It is honest and competitive for an early-stage London team.
Meaningful equity. Founding-team-level. Real upside if Prism becomes what we think it can become.
Commission on every placement. This is a real lever. Top performers should make more from commission than base.

How to apply

Send a short note: who you are, the most impressive placement you've ever made (and why it was hard), and one sentence on why an AI-native agency interests you. No CV needed in the first message.

We respond to everyone who applies.