Talent & Operations

Squad is using AI to accelerate how the world's best talent finds the right problems to solve.

The bottleneck in recruiting isn't sourcing. It's data. Candidate data is poor and getting noisier (self-reported, outdated, now AI-inflated). But recruiters hold high-quality, real-time signal because they talk to candidates every day. That's why companies spend >$800B/year on recruiting. The problem is this signal is fragmented and unusable at scale.

Squad's first product aggregates signals from hundreds of recruiters and uses AI to instantly match their candidates to roles, giving companies unprecedented reach without the usual pain of managing external partners.

We give recruiters a business-in-a-box that lets them earn more while doing what they do best: building relationships and knowing their candidates deeply. In return, we get proprietary data. Our AI structures signal from real recruiter-candidate context that doesn't exist on Linked In or resumes. Every submission, every rejection, every hire feeds a self-improving AI matchmaking engine.

We believe the future of recruiting is human authenticity paired with AI efficiency. Great recruiters have a critical role to play, and Squad is built to empower them.

Long-term, Squad becomes the infrastructure layer for how talent meets opportunity.
Why you should join us

Squad is a generational opportunity to rethink how recruiting works, and our path to doing so is significantly de-risked. We have:

• Exponential growth: We have product-market fit and are growing rapidly. Squad supports hundreds of candidates, recruiters, and employers every day. We've grown 10x in under a year with a 3-person team.
• AI-first business model. Our approach is distinctly enabled by AI, and our business gets stronger as foundation models improve. We're building durability through cross-sided network effects that compound over time. Every submission, rejection, and hire feeds a self-improving matchmaking engine.
• Real ownership. It's still 'day 0'. You'll shape what Squad looks like and how far we get. Your input will define our vision, product, team, and execution. What you build now becomes the foundation for everything that follows.
• Top tier investors: We've raised over $5M from FJ Labs (Airbnb, Uber, Dropbox), Link Ventures (Mercor, Liquid AI), Golden Ventures (Faire, Boardy), and angels.
• Massive ceiling: The recruiting industry is >$800B and broken. We're building the infrastructure layer for how talent meets opportunity. The scope is as big as you want it to be.

Market demand is pulling us forward. We're looking for people who are excited about high ownership, high velocity, and high impact.

There's an enormous amount to build - and the scope only gets bigger. You will never be bored.

If we succeed, every company finds the right people the moment they need them. Every person finds meaningful work without friction. And the pace of innovation changes forever.

Why you should join us

The biggest bottleneck to innovation is getting the right people working on the right problems. Hiring is still slow, manual, and full of noise - and we're building the infrastructure to fix that.

Squad is a generational opportunity to rethink how recruiting works. We have:

• Exponential growth:
  Squad supports hundreds of candidates, recruiters, and employers every day, and we've grown rapidly with a very small team.
• An AI-first business model:
  Our approach is enabled by AI and becomes more durable as foundation models improve, with network effects compounding over time.
• Top-tier backing:
  We've raised significant funding from leading investors to build an exceptional team of operators, recruiters, and product builders.

Our number-one priority is scaling to meet demand while keeping quality high. This role sits at the heart of that: you'll shape how recruiting is actually run on Squad - both in the product and in our day-to-day operations.

About the role

As Squad's Talent & Ops hire, you will set the gold standard for how we run recruiting processes on our the platform. You'll sit at the intersection of recruiting, operations, and product, owning:

• The last-mile quality bar on candidates and pipelines.
• Feedback loops…