Technical Recruiter

At Krea, we are building next-generation AI creative tools, empowering human creativity. We're a small team (~20 people) backed by $83M from top investors, working full-time in San Francisco. We are seeking a technical recruiter with an engineering background to help us hire exceptional infra, backend, AI research, and product talent. You will work directly with founders to develop a hiring plan, build pipelines, conduct technical evaluations, and manage the full recruiting process end-to-end.

Must Have

• Develop and execute a plan for sourcing infra, backend, ML, and product candidates
• Build and maintain candidate pipelines through various channels
• Conduct technical evaluations of candidates, reviewing repos, research, and past work
• Manage the full recruiting process: screening, conversations, scheduling, offers, and closing
• Monitor the talent landscape and share insights on market shifts and candidate preferences
• Contribute to employer branding through job descriptions and candidate experience
• Build lightweight processes for smoother hiring as the company grows
• Possess a software engineering background to evaluate technical work directly
• Experience in hiring or closing strong technical talent
• Strong network in engineering, ML, or AI, or ability to build one quickly
• Organized, reliable, and strong in execution
• Clear and direct communication skills

Good to Have

• Founder experience
• Early-stage hiring experience

Perks & Benefits

• Visa support (STEM OPT, OPT, H-1B, O-1, E-3)
• Opportunity to work closely with a world-class engineering and research team
• Real ownership over hiring and growth strategies
• Competitive compensation (75th percentile of market) with meaningful equity

Technical Recruiter

Location

San Francisco

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

On-site

Department

Operations

About Krea

At Krea, we are building next-generation AI creative tools. We’re dedicated to making AI intuitive and controllable for creatives - our mission is to build tools that empower human creativity, not replace it. We believe AI is a new medium that allows us to express ourselves through various formats - text, images, video, sound, and even 3D. We're building better, smarter, and more controllable tools to harness this medium.

We’ve raised over $83M and are backed by world-class Silicon Valley investors such as Andreesen Horowitz and Bain Capital. We work full-time and in-person at our waterfront office in San Francisco. We care about creativity: our team includes musicians, designers, visual artists, and engineers.

This job:

We’re looking for a technical recruiter with an engineering background to help us grow our team. We’re still small (~20 people) and want to hire exceptional infra, backend, AI research, and product talent. You’ll work directly with the founders building a clear plan for where to find the right people and running a fast, thoughtful hiring process end to end.

What you’ll do:

• Develop a plan for finding strong infra, backend, ML and product candidates across industry, academia, and the less obvious channels of the internet.
• Build and maintain pipelines through direct outreach, communities, events, projects, and referrals.
• Talk to candidates with real technical depth: look at repos, research, past work and understand how they think.
• Run the full recruiting process - screening, conversations, scheduling, offers, and closing - with steady follow-trough.
• Keep an eye on the broader talent landscape and share what you’re seeing: where strong people come from, how the market is shifting, and what candidates care about.
• Help make sure the outside world has a clear picture of who we are through job descriptions, candidate experience and events.
• Build lightweight processes and habits that make hiring smoother as we grow.

Example experiences and skills we’re looking for:

• You’ve been a software engineer and can evaluate technical work directly - repos, research papers, experiments, architecture decisions.
• You’ve hired or closed strong technical people before - whether as a recruiter, an engineer, a founder, or someone who has built teams in another way.
• You have a strong network in engineering / ML / AI or know how to build one quickly.
• You’re organized and reliable on execution: clean pipelines, fast loops and thoughtful follow-through.
• You communicate clearly and directly, both with candidates and with the team.
• Founder experience or early-stage hiring experience is helpful but not required.

What we offer:

• Visa support (STEM OPT, OPT, H-1B, O-1, E-3).
• A chance to work closely with a world-class engineering and research team.
• Real ownership over how we hire and how we grow.
• Competitive compensation (75th percentile of market) with meaningful equity.