TMI Jobs in People & Talent
April 25, 2025 - Roles at Paradigm VC, AllTrails, Tavus and more..
Hi all!
Tomorrow we celebrate the king’s birthday, Koningsdag (King’s Day), here in the Netherlands. It’s a weird mix of a country-wide flea market, a carnival, and a frat party in the streets. And it’s always a shitshow. Should be fun! Hope I don’t fall into a canal! 🇳🇱🎉🍻
And now onto the most interesting roles…
The Americas
Technical Recruiter at Paradigm in San Francisco, CA.
One of the OG crypto-focused VCs. Dan, who runs the talent show over there, runs a lean team of stellar tech recruiters who help build 0-1 eng teams for the portfolio companies. Crypto experience isn’t a must, but you’ll definitely need to be excited to dive deep into the space. Apply here.
TMI Factors: VC!, Recruit for Early-Early Stage Companies, Hop On the Crypto Train
(First!) Founding Sr Tech Recruiter at UniversalAGI in San Francisco, CA.
Pre-seed (?) startup building AI agents specifically for enterprise and the government space. There’s not a lot to find about them online, but it sounds like they have solidified some significant government contracts along with some backing from tech and political big-wigs. You’d be joining them as recruiter #1, presumably building out their early team. Apply here.
TMI Factors: First-in!, Early-Early Stage, Highly Secure AI at Scale, Impressive Backers (Elad Gil, Eric Schmidt.. but also Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump 👀)
(First!) Head of Talent at Tavus in SF, NYC, or USA (Remote).
Series A startup building state-of-the-art technology that enables AI human avatars that can see, hear, and communicate with human authenticity. The obvious use-cases for this are customer service, healthcare, etc - but we’re also getting closer to AI friends, girl/boyfriends, and general personal relationships (help combat loneliness? amazing. but conceptually still terrifying to me 😵💫). You’d be joining as talent person #1, building it all out from scratch! Apply here.
TMI Factors: First-in!, Early Stage, Hyper-Realistic AI, Impressive Backers (YC, Sequoia, Lightspeed, Accel)
(First!) Founding Recruiter at Savvy Wealth in New York, NY.
Series A company building a technology-enabled platform to help financial advisors manage their own businesses and provide faster, more precise advice to their clients. Given their stage and what I see on their website, it looks like they are expanding their product to be B2C, acting as a (human + AI) financial advisor to individuals. Interesting! I posted about them last summer when they were hiring their first People person, and it looks like they are now ready to focus on scaling the team. Apply here.
TMI Factors: First-in-Function!, Early Stage, Pivotal Point for Company Growth, Solid Backers (BoxGroup, Thrive, Index)
Senior Recruiter at AllTrails in USA (Remote).
Now-acquired company that built one of the highest ranking Health and Fitness apps in the world, with a focus on helping people find great outdoor trails for hiking, biking, and trail running. Given their stage/the acquisition, this doesn’t fit my normal early-stage taste, but man, did I love this app when I was back in SF. Did I still regularly get lost on a hike? Absolutely. But I loved it. Now I live in a country whose name literally means ‘low lands’ and don’t have as much use for the app, but I was excited to see the name again and have a feeling that someone out there would love love love to work for this company. Apply here.
TMI Factors: Simply put, I love their app and what they do. People need to get into the outdoors more (myself included).
(First?) Recruiting Lead at Tabs in New York, NY.
Series A platform for AI revenue automation (like billing, reporting, etc) for B2B businesses. Not the sexiest of tech, but a big space that could use a little more automation, I’m sure :) You’d be joining as recruiter #1 (as far as I can tell) and even helping out with some People stuff, so lots to build! Apply here.
TMI Factors: First-in!, Early Stage, AI Automation for Super Manual Tasks, Solid Backers (General Catalyst, Primary, Lightspeed)
EMEA/APAC
None this week!
Have a great weekend, everyone!