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Founding Recruiting Lead

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In-Office
San Francisco, CA, USA
Senior level
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San Francisco, CA, USA
Senior level
Lead recruitment efforts at Wispr, scaling engineering and machine learning teams, defining talent brand, managing candidate relationships, and building the recruiting team.
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About Wispr

Wispr Flow is making it as effortless to interact with your devices as talking to a close friend.

Today, Wispr Flow is the first voice dictation platform people use more than their keyboards — because it understands you perfectly on the first try. It’s context-aware, personalized, and works anywhere you can type, on desktop or phone.

In 2026, in addition to dictation, we're focused on building native actions — an agentic framework that understands you, and works reliably.

We’re a team of AI researchers, designers, growth experts, and engineers rethinking human-computer interaction from the ground up. We value high-agency teammates who communicate openly, obsess over users, and sweat the details. We thrive on spirited debate, truth-seeking, and real-world impact.

We're grown our revenue +150% every quarter for the last 4 quarters, and have raised $81M from Tier 1 VC firms and other well-known angels.

Job Responsibilities

You'll be the first recruiter and lead of our talent team at Wispr.

  • Scale the engineering and ML teams from 15 to 50 over the course of 2026 while maintaining or increasing the talent bar

  • Defining the talent brand for Wispr Flow

  • Hosting events, meetups, and lunches to cultivate relationships

  • Managing the full relationship with candidates and becoming their trusted resource -- from the first touchpoint to closing them

  • Provide regular feedback and hiring data to teams

  • Building out the recruiting team

Must-Have Shortlist
  • 7+ years of prior full life-cycle recruitment experience; preferably in a start-up environment

  • Track record of hiring and assessing top talent across all levels and functions, particularly in product design and engineering, and have an eye for assessing their portfolios and capabilities

  • Proactive, ambitious, and results-oriented approach to achieving targets

  • Highly organized and can manage competing priorities in a fast paced environment

  • Strong client relationships management skills

Who you are
  • Closer: Converts candidates choosing between Wispr and OpenAI / Anthropic / xAI

  • Operator: Designs scalable funnels, pipelines, sourcing systems from scratch

  • Storyteller: Converts product and technical vision into a narrative candidates emotionally buy into

  • Autonomy and Ownership: Makes decisions without supervision and treats hiring as existential

  • Team player: Deep desire to help the team and company win

We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.

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Wispr South San Francisco, California, USA Office

400 Oyster Point Blvd, South San Francisco, CA, United States, 94080

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