Talent Acquisition Partner

Latent Labs

Talent Acquisition Partner to build Latent Labs' San Francisco AI and biology team. Engaging with technical and scientific candidates while partnering with hiring managers.

Posted 5/28/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Partner with hiring managers in San Francisco to understand team priorities and role requirements
Own full-cycle hiring across various technical, scientific, and business roles
Build and manage high-quality candidate pipelines through sourcing, referrals and networks
Engage exceptional passive candidates and communicate Latent Labs’ mission clearly
Run structured, candidate-friendly hiring processes from kickoff to offer
Advise hiring managers on market mapping and closing strategy
Help create repeatable hiring systems including interview plans and scorecards
Work with the London Talent team for a consistent global hiring approach
Represent Latent Labs as a thoughtful, credible, and mission-driven talent partner

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience hiring for highly technical, scientific or deep-tech teams
Confident sourcing and engaging passive candidates
Partner closely with hiring managers, understand technical requirements and help calibrate what great looks like
Clear communication skills to represent complex scientific mission
Organised, proactive and comfortable managing multiple hiring processes
Care deeply about candidate experience and know how to run structured and efficient processes
Enjoy early-stage environments bringing judgement, pace and ownership.
Experience hiring in San Francisco or Bay Area talent market
Experience hiring for AI labs, biotech companies, frontier research teams
Familiarity with academic sourcing, research communities, conferences, labs or university networks
Experience hiring in fields like machine learning, computational biology, protein design, wet lab biology, software engineering
Experience with recruiting tools such as Ashby, LinkedIn Recruiter, Gem, Greenhouse

Benefits

Comp & perks

Private health insurance
Pension/401(k) contributions
Generous leave policies including gender neutral parental leave
Hybrid working
Travel opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

hiringsourcingcandidate engagementmarket mappinginterview planningscorecard creationstructured hiring processescandidate experience managementtechnical hiringdeep-tech hiring

Soft Skills

clear communicationorganizational skillsproactivejudgmentownershipability to manage multiple processescandidate advocacycollaborationadaptabilitythought leadership