Head of Talent

About AI Fund

AI Fund is an early-stage venture studio founded by Andrew Ng. We build and grow AI companies from zero to one by originating ideas, then recruiting and partnering with founders to turn those ideas into businesses. AI Fund moves fast. In a matter of weeks, we turn ideas into funded, operating companies. Talent is the lever that makes this possible.

About the Role

You will lead AI Fund’s talent function, with overall responsibility for strategy, execution and people leadership of this function. We think this is the best place to rethink what recruiting in the era of AI will look like, you will further lead reinventing how we identify, engage, and hire talent in the AI era, particularly technical talent. This role reports directly to Andrew, and you will be responsible for recruiting for AI Fund’s internal team and will work closely with the AI Fund leadership team, to hire founders to build companies with us.

Additionally, you will work directly with CEOs to build their founding teams. You will manage a team of recruiters, and set the standard for how modern, AI-enabled recruiting should work. We are extremely excited about recruiting in 2026 and beyond, which we expect to be drastically better than the world of 2022 before modern AI came on the scene. We are looking for a GenAI-forward operator who is already actively using AI, and is excited to level up their efforts significantly.

We envision not just transforming individual tasks in recruiting such as sourcing, research, outreach, screening, calibration, and decision-making, but rethinking how startup and VC functions should work in the AI era. With AI, we’d like to see 5x improvements, not incremental 5% gains. As part of this role, you will also collaborate closely with our ecosystem teams, some of which are developing new AI tools that will support your work.

• Serve as Head of Talent for AI Fund, owning recruiting at AI Fund and supporting our portfolio companies’ recruiting.
• Lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing team of recruiters; set clear standards for quality, velocity, and candidate experience.
• Partner directly with AI Fund leadership and portfolio CEOs to rapidly hire great talent into our teams.
• Bring structure, clarity, and rigor to an environment that moves fast and operates with high ambiguity.

• Own end-to-end recruiting for AI Fund’s internal team and startup leadership roles, including specifically hiring the technical co-founder/CEO to lead our startups.
• After a startup is formed, further assist it directly with building up the first few members of their team.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to founders on org design, compensation philosophy, leveraging AI Fund and our ecosystem resources when appropriate.

• Rethink how recruiting should work in the AI era, for example by deploying AI-powered workflows across the full cycle of recruiting.
• Partner with AI Fund and ecosystem engineers to improve our AI-enabled recruiting tools.
• Go beyond point solutions that eke out incremental efficiency gains. Instead, take bold steps to redesigning the entire recruiting workflow, taking advantage of AI technology and our ecosystem capabilities.
• Nurture the software development and invention capabilities of our recruiting team. Everyone at AI Fund, including all of our recruiters, know how to code (with AI assistance) and is involved in building custom recruiting software. This puts us well ahead of most other recruiting teams. You will extend this lead and use these capabilities to invent new ways to approach talent.

• Ensure and scale a transparent, respectful, and high-touch candidate experience, even at high volume.
• Design processes to make sure AI Fund and its portfolio are showing up credibly, warmly and authentically to candidates.

• Define, track, and analyze recruiting funnel metrics, including time-to-fill, conversion rates, source quality, and quality-of-hire signals.
• Establish scalable workflows, scorecards, and interview frameworks that maintain quality even as AI Fund scales.