Senior Talent Acquisition Partner

ABOUT DUST Work is being rewritten, and the people holding the pen are the ones who actually run it. Dust is the multiplayer AI platform for human-agent collaboration. It gives companies a shared workspace where teams can build, deploy, and manage AI agents connected to their company knowledge, tools, and workflows. With enterprise-grade governance, flexible model choice, and a collaborative interface for humans and agents to work together, Dust empowers AI Operators at the world’s fastest-moving companies to rewire how work gets done. With 70%+ weekly active users, people stick with Dust as much as they do with Slack and Notion. We don't get piloted and shelved. We land once, and spread. We're at an exciting stage of our journey, and growing fast. We're serving great customers https://blog.dust.tt/tag/customer-stories/ like Datadog, 1Password, Cursor, Clay, Vanta and Persona, and aim to x5 our growth by the end of 2026. Dust is backed by Sequoia https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/27/dust-grabs-another-16-million-for-its-enterprise-ai-assistants-connected-to-internal-data/ with a determined team of optimists (coming from Stripe, OpenAI, and Stanford) who like to focus on users, ship fast, and don't take themselves too seriously while doing so. The Generalist named us among the Future 50 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dust-tt_were-honored-to-be-recognized-on-the-generalists-activity-7359284343929741313-Rq04. SUMMARY We're scaling from 80 to 150+ people by the end of 2026. This is not a fill-the-funnel recruiting role, it's about maintaining and raising talent density as we scale. You'll be a strategic partner to hiring managers across GTM and/or Engineering, owning full-cycle recruitment with a strong emphasis on sourcing. You'll also help us build the future of AI-powered talent, using Dust and other AI tools to reinvent how recruiting works as well as redefining what roles look like in the world of AI. WHAT YOU'LL DO Own Full-Cycle Recruiting at Scale - Drive hiring across GTM, Engineering and other departments, with a focus on roles talent density - Own proactive sourcing as the primary pipeline driver, not relying solely on inbound - Partner with hiring managers to define role scope, build scorecards, design interview processes, and calibrate on what great looks like Be a Strategic Advisor to Stakeholders - Build deep trust with hiring managers by demonstrating strong judgment, domain expertise, and a clear point of view on what exceptional talent looks like - Challenge briefs, propose alternatives, and help stakeholders raise the bar. Rethink what talent looks like in a world of AI - Provide data-driven insights on hiring metrics, pipeline health, and market intelligence to inform hiring strategy Build for the Future with AI - Use Dust and other AI tools to scale talent operations. Building agents, automating workflows, and creating leverage that makes us more efficient - Rethink recruiting processes and systems with an AI-first mindset - Contribute to building a world-class talent function that serves as a model for how AI can transform recruiting WE'RE SEEKING Every candidate and employee's success is measured against the same 3 dimensions: Aptitude, Attitude, and Agency. Aptitude - Have 7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with a mix of agency and in-house roles at high-growth companies - Have a strong spike in either GTM or Engineering recruiting, with enough generalist flexibility to pick up roles across other functions when needed - Know how to attract the right talent through multiple motions. Sourcing is your priority, but you're also creative and experimental with how you build pipeline and engage candidates - Have a passion for AI's potential to transform how teams work and are actively using it to reinvent recruiting. You've built agents to create leverage. - Possess strong judgment and taste for talent. You can articulate what makes someone exceptional, and you're comfortable saying no when a candidate doe