Talent Acquisition Lead

About Elicit

Elicit is an AI research assistant that uses language models to help researchers figure out what’s true and make better decisions. Our mission is to radically increase good reasoning. Elicit helps expert researchers push the frontier of what's possible in fields like biomedicine, health economics, and computer science.

Visit our Twitter to learn more about how Elicit is helping researchers and making progress on our mission.

Why we’re hiring for this role

Our plans are ambitious. We've raised a $22M Series A round in order to expand beyond academic research. We'll apply the transparency and systematicity we applied to automate literature reviews and broadly become the gold standard for evidence-based AI-native decision-making across many industries.

To enable this, we're bringing in talent that demonstrates excellence and mastery across the team. We need your help connecting with mission-aligned people who are inspired by our goals, so we can match them with the most impactful and fulfilling roles at Elicit that fit their areas of excellence!

What you'll do

• End-to-end recruiting

  • This is a hands-on role! You'll personally manage full cycle recruiting for critical roles across the team, ensuring pipelines are healthy and we're making timely hires. To get a sense of volume, we expect to have at least 2-3 successful hires every quarter.

  • Source and nurture top candidates using a wide variety of channels, ranging from the expected (direct email, industry networks, online communities) to the innovative (throwing events, in-person visits, you tell us what's working well within the technical niches we're tapping into!).

  • Conduct intro calls and initial screening interviews to ensure we're setting candidates and interviewers up for a successful, mutually beneficial process.

  • Collaborate with hiring managers to provide structured updates to the team, align on role requirements and interview criteria, and support the interview process..

• Day-to-day operational excellence

  • You'll own our ATS (we use Ashby!) to streamline all processes, including sourcing, interviewing, feedback, reporting, and compliance.

  • You'll build and maintain reports in Ashby and develop a cadence for sharing them with hiring managers and leads, so that we are making focused, data-backed decisions and improvements.

• Contribute to our long-term TA strategy

  • You'll develop the strategy and rhythms to ensure we meet our hiring goals on time and on budget

  • You'll work with our Head of Operations and the rest of the leadership team to forecast headcount needs, identify skills gaps on our team, and build the talent pipeline we need to achieve our goals

• Keep Elicit’s bar for quality high

  • You'll keep it real with our hiring managers and leadership team and advise on market realities for critical roles. You'll be the voice of our candidates, ensuring we're presenting the most compelling reasons for the best-fit talent to join Elicit.

  • Protect the candidate experience! Help us stay accountable to our values and commitment to operating a consistent, welcoming, and high-quality evaluation process from start to finish.

What you bring to the role

• Several years of experience in talent acquisition and recruiting, particularly in a startup environment, with many success stories to share about creatively sourcing and placing people into their dream roles. You've been a key early TA hire in a company, and have scaled startup teams through different growth stages.

• Experience recruiting for frontier technical skillsets, where talent is scarce and hiring bars are very high.

• Experience setting up effective metrics dashboards and reports to share with hiring managers and guide your focus.

• Operational excellence, with high attention to detail and care for the candidate experience.

• A sense of joy in what you do! One thing we love about our team at Elicit is that everybody’s a craftsperson who cares deeply about their field. For this role, we are looking for who truly loves and wants to stay in TA long term.

Note: we're flexible with work location, but for this role we're optimizing for more time spent working and meeting with candidates in our Oakland office. Candidates local to the Bay Area will be prioritized!

Where you'll get to grow in your role

• In partnership with company leadership and the Head of Ops, you'll help isolate and communicate Elicit's key EVPs and leverage our unique team and culture to help overcome hiring challenges. You'll support innovating on our employer branding strategies and campaigns to establish Elicit as an employer of choice.

• Help build, lead, and mentor a small but mighty recruiting team that is hyper-focused on the sourcing strategies and market nuances our best-fit talent cares about most.

• Taking your experience with competency-focused, structured interviewing, you'll help the Elicit team of interviewers drive for better, more effective assessment results.

• Work with the Head of Ops and other department leads to leverage learnings from the assessment process to set new employees up for a successful onboarding and tenure with Elicit. We want the entire employee lifecycle journey to be consistent, engaging, and supportive all the way through.

• Work with the Ops team to create and nurture our talent community with events, meet-ups, resources, and other strategies to expand and enhance our talent pipelines.

Compensation, benefits, and perks

In addition to working on important problems as part of a productive and positive team, we also offer great benefits (with some variation based on location):

• Flexible work environment: work from our office in Oakland or remotely within the US.

  • Note: For this role, we are optimizing for candidates who can spend more time than a normal Elicit employee working and meeting candidates in our Oakland office.

• Fully covered health, dental, vision, and life insurance for you, generous coverage for the rest of your family (FSA/HSA, too)

• Flexible vacation policy, with a minimum recommendation of 20 days / year and plenty of company holidays

• 401K with a 6% employer match

• $2,000 device budget to start, with more accumulating for each month of work

• $500 / year personal development budget

• A team administrative assistant who can help you with personal and work tasks

• You can find more reasons to work with us in this thread!

For all roles at Elicit, we use a data-backed compensation framework to keep salaries market-competitive, equitable, and simple to understand.

• This role starts between $170-210K + equity, for a Sr. Manager/Director-level hire or above.