Proximity Works
Artificial Intelligence • SaaS • Enterprise
Proximity Works is a global tech company specializing in Artificial Intelligence and SaaS solutions. They focus on building high-performance software that leverages cutting-edge AI technologies to enhance productivity and transform business operations. Their services include AI-powered SaaS solutions, UX design, and product engineering to help companies scale effectively. Proximity Works collaborates with industry giants like Nasdaq, Disney, and ESPN, offering expertise in AI strategy, machine learning, and high-caliber product development.
Senior Technical Recruiter, Frontier AI
Job not on LinkedIn
September 14
Proximity Works
Artificial Intelligence • SaaS • Enterprise
Proximity Works is a global tech company specializing in Artificial Intelligence and SaaS solutions. They focus on building high-performance software that leverages cutting-edge AI technologies to enhance productivity and transform business operations. Their services include AI-powered SaaS solutions, UX design, and product engineering to help companies scale effectively. Proximity Works collaborates with industry giants like Nasdaq, Disney, and ESPN, offering expertise in AI strategy, machine learning, and high-caliber product development.
📋 Description
• Own end-to-end closure of senior AI, ML, multimodal, backend, and engineering hires globally. • Identify, engage, and close exceptional global talent for frontier AI roles. • Build adjacency maps of companies, labs, and communities working on relevant frontier problems. • Generate technical screening prompts, knockout questions, and rubrics independently. • Source beyond LinkedIn using GitHub, arXiv, OSS repos, Kaggle, Twitter, Discord, Substack, niche forums, and micro-communities. • Craft and execute compelling outreach campaigns using artifact-first hooks and Proximity’s track record. • Drive urgency by compressing interview loops, managing notice-period negotiations and buyouts, and delivering offers quickly. • Ensure evidence-backed sourcing with GitHub repos, demos, papers, and talks while maintaining a world-class candidate experience. • Meet hiring KPIs and SLAs: deliver 6–8 frontier hires per quarter, 80% evidence-backed candidates, rapid feedback and time-to-offer targets.
🎯 Requirements
• Proven track record as an individual contributor recruiter, not just a TA manager. • Demonstrated success sourcing and closing frontier AI, ML, backend, or engineering talent globally. • Strong technical comprehension; comfortable with transformer fine-tuning, multimodal pipelines involving video, audio, and text, MLOps stacks, scalable backend systems, and related domains. • Evidence of artifact-based sourcing such as GitHub repos, OSS contributions, research papers, or competition wins. • Experience in persuasive multi-touch outreach campaigns and passive talent conversion. • Global exposure and ability to recruit across India, EU, LATAM, or other regions with cost-sensitive hiring strategies. • Nice to have: Experience hiring for early-stage or hypergrowth AI and ML product teams. • Nice to have: Success recruiting engineers in video generation, lip-sync, diffusion, audio processing, or real-time streaming. • Nice to have: Familiarity with ad-tech hiring at scale (RTB, personalization, streaming infrastructure). • Nice to have: Portfolio of outreach copy or campaigns with proven conversion results.
🏖️ Benefits
• Competitive compensation aligned with global markets, with remote-first flexibility • Best-in-class health coverage • Annual global off-sites with Proxonauts from SF, Dubai, India • Help build AI/ML products and engineering teams that power global leaders in sports, streaming, and media. • Work directly with global CTO offices on frontier AI problem statements that shape the future of entertainment and technology. • High autonomy, direct accountability, and global reach.
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