Head of Talent
Head of Talent at LMArena
Location: SF Bay Area
Type: Full-Time
About the Role:
As our founding Senior Recruiter/Head of Talent, you will play a pivotal role in building and scaling our teams during a period of rapid growth. You’ll take ownership of our hiring strategy, processes, and candidate experience, working directly with the Co-founders. This is an opportunity for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, early-stage environment and is eager to shape the future of our company.
Responsibilities:
Partner closely with company leadership and hiring managers to define hiring needs and priorities.
Lead the full-cycle recruiting process: sourcing, interviewing, and closing exceptional talent across all teams.
Develop and implement recruiting best practices, tools, and processes to ensure a seamless candidate experience.
Prepare candidates for interviews and guide them through each stage of the process.
Contribute to building a strong employer brand and help create a diverse, high-performing team.
Bring a hands-on, proactive approach and a passion for finding and attracting top talent.
Requirements
You have 7+ years of full cycle recruiting experience for different functions within a growing organization
You have startup experience at an early stage and/or hyper growth company
You have worked at an AI native company and/or recruited for ML/AI researchers and Applied ML roles.
You are a confident writer and verbal communicator who loves to connect with new people and can persuade, influence, and build trust at all levels.
You have experience with recruiting metrics and using data to guide decisions and strategy.
You have knowledge of different sourcing tools and methodologies, as well as experience with Ashby, Lever or Greenhouse ATS.
Who is LMArena?
Created by researchers from UC Berkeley’s SkyLab, LMArena is an open platform where everyone can easily access, explore and interact with the world’s leading AI models. By comparing them side by side and casting votes for the better response, the community helps shape a public leaderboard, making AI progress more transparent, and grounded in real-world usage.
Why Join Us?
Trusted by organizations like Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI, and more, LMArena is rapidly becoming essential infrastructure for transparent, human-centered AI evaluation at scale. With over one million monthly users and growing developer adoption, our impact is helping guide the next generation of safe, aligned AI systems—grounded in open access and collective feedback.
Our work is regularly referenced by industry leaders pushing the frontier of safe and reliable AI. Sundar Pichai, Jeff Dean, Elon Musk, and Sam Altman.
High Impact: Your work will be used daily by the world’s most advanced AI labs.
Global Reach: Develop data infrastructure powering millions of real-world evaluations, influencing AI reliability across industries at the top-tier
Exceptional Team: We are a small team of top talent from Google, DeepMind, Discord, Vercel, UC Berkeley, and Stanford.
What we offer:
The cash compensation for this position has not yet been finalized. Actual compensation will depend on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and candidate location.
Competitive salary and meaningful equity
Comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, vision)
The opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI with a small, mission-driven team
A culture that values transparency, trust, and community impact
Come help build the space where anyone can explore and help shape the future of AI.
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