Founding Talent Partner

StellarSearch is an AI-native recruiting partner helping some of the fastest-growing AI startups across New York, San Francisco, and London hire world-class engineers, researchers, and product talent.

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We work with ambitious founders building genuinely category-defining companies — from profitable bootstrapped AI startups to VC-backed rocketships scaling from 0→1.

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This is not a normal recruiting job.

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You’ll work directly with AI founders, elite engineers, and extremely high-agency people building the future of AI. If you’re good, the upside here is massive — financially, professionally, and in terms of the network you build.

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Who we’re looking for

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* 2-3+ years experience in sales, recruiting, BD, or another highly client-facing environment (BDR, AE, recruiter, closer, SDR, etc)
* Entrepreneurial, competitive, and naturally high-agency
* Wants to become elite at recruiting
* Comfortable operating in fast-moving startup environments
* Emotionally resilient — recruiting is very high highs + brutal lows
* Great with people and naturally good at building relationships
* Learns fast, moves fast, and operates with urgency
* Wants real leverage/upside, not a comfortable internal recruiting role processing inbound applicants
* Excited by startups, technology, AI, and ambitious people
* Willing to learn how to source world-class engineers, close difficult candidates, and operate like a founder

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Strong background signals

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* Startup experience
* Agency recruiting
* Strong sales instinct
* Founder/operator mentality
* Terminally online internet curiosity
* Naturally obsessed with markets, people, startups, or technology

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Bonus points

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* You train seriously outside work (running, lifting, martial arts, swimming, etc)
* You spend too much time on Twitter, Hacker News, GitHub, podcasts, AI demos, or startup rabbit holes
* You understand recruiting at the highest level is a mix of sales, psychology, market intelligence, and speed
* You hate losing and want to be on a winning team

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What the role looks like

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* Fully remote — work from the Dolomites, Tokyo, Mexico City, wherever, as long as the work gets done
* Occasional travel to SF, NYC, and London
* Extremely high ownership from day one
* Direct exposure to some of the fastest-growing AI companies in the world

Note: currently only open to candidates based in the United States or United Kingdom.

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Our Values

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Think bigger

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We work with founders building category-defining AI companies, so small thinking compounds badly. We optimize for ambition, speed, and long-term leverage. The problems worth solving are usually the uncomfortable ones everyone else avoids.

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Care deeply

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Recruiting at the highest level only works if you genuinely give a shit — about the founders, the candidates, and the outcome. We care about quality, reputation, speed, and doing right by people. This is high ownership work, not clock-in-clock-out work.

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Win for the founder

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Everything we do exists to help our clients build exceptional companies faster. We are not here to generate activity or spam candidates — we are here to deliver outcomes. Great recruiting is part sales, part psychology, part market intelligence, and part execution.

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High agency wins

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The best people here operate like founders. If something is broken, fix it. If there’s ambiguity, shape it. If there’s an opportunity, take it. We value people who move quickly, communicate clearly, and don’t wait around for permission.

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Intensity without ego

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We care about excellence, urgency, honesty, and high standards. We give direct feedback, move quickly, and expect a lot from each other — but without politics or arrogance. The best teams are low-ego, highly competitive, and genuinely enjoy winning together.

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Become undeniable

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We want people obsessed with becoming elite at what they do. The goal is not to be “good at recruiting.” The goal is to become world-class at understanding people, startups, markets, and talent before everyone else does.

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