Senior Technical Recruiter - Frontier AI (Europe)

Join one of the world's most ambitious AI technology companies, shaping the future of Sports, Media, and Entertainment. Proximity Works helps global brands discover high-impact AI use cases, build transformative tech stacks, and scale to hundreds of millions of users. Since 2019, Proximity Works has created and scaled AI-driven products used by 697 million daily users, generating $73.5 billion in enterprise value for our partners. We are a global team headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Los Angeles, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore. We partner with some of the biggest names in sports, media, and entertainment, solving complex problems with cutting-edge AI. Role Summary We are seeking a hands-on Senior Technical Recruiter who will individually own the end-to-end closure of frontier AI, ML, and backend roles. This is not a traditional TA manager role. It is a high-impact recruiting position requiring technical fluency, first principles sourcing, and persuasive outreach. You will identify, engage, and close exceptional global talent who will help Proximity build world-class AI products and engineering platforms. What You'll Do

• Own the end-to-end closure of senior AI, ML, multimodal, backend, and engineering hires globally
• Build adjacency maps of companies, labs, and communities working on relevant frontier problems
• Generate technical screening prompts, knockout questions, and rubrics independently
• Source beyond LinkedIn. Leverage GitHub, arXiv, OSS repos, Kaggle, Twitter, Discord, Substack, niche forums, and micro-communities
• Craft and execute compelling outreach campaigns using artifact-first hooks and Proximity's track record as trusted partners to global sports, media, and entertainment leaders
• Drive urgency by compressing interview loops, managing notice-period negotiations and buyouts, and delivering offers quickly
• Ensure evidence-backed sourcing with GitHub repos, demos, papers, and talks, while maintaining a world-class candidate experience

RequirementsWhat You'll Need

• Proven track record as an individual contributor recruiter, not just a TA manager
• Demonstrated success sourcing and closing frontier AI, ML, backend, or engineering talent globally
• Strong technical comprehension. Comfortable with transformer fine-tuning, multimodal pipelines involving video, audio, and text, MLOps stacks, scalable backend systems, and related domains
• Evidence of artifact-based sourcing such as GitHub repos, OSS contributions, research papers, or competition wins
• Experience in persuasive multi-touch outreach campaigns and passive talent conversion
• Global exposure and ability to recruit across India, EU, LATAM, or other regions with cost-sensitive hiring strategies

Nice to Have

• Experience hiring for early-stage or hypergrowth AI and ML product teams
• Success recruiting engineers in video generation, lip-sync, diffusion, audio processing, or real-time streaming
• Familiarity with ad-tech hiring at scale (RTB, personalization, streaming infrastructure)
• Portfolio of outreach copy or campaigns with proven conversion results

What Success Looks Like

• 6 to 8 successful frontier hires per quarter across India, EU, and LATAM markets
• At least 80 percent of sourced candidates are evidence-backed through OSS, papers, or demos
• At least two positive replies per 10 passive outreach attempts
• SLA adherence: under 8 hours for feedback loops, under 10 days time-to-offer on urgent roles
• Candidate satisfaction NPS of 8 or higher

Success Traits Builder's mindset

• High agency
• Strategic + hands-on balance
• Cultural intelligence
• Analytical clarity
• Trustworthiness
• Growth orientation

BenefitsCompensation, Benefits & Why Join Proximity

• Competitive compensation aligned with global markets, with remote-first flexibility
• Best-in-class health coverage
• Annual global off-sites with Proxonauts from SF, Dubai, India
• Help build AI/ML products and engineering teams that power global leaders in sports, streaming, and media
• Work directly with global CTO offices on frontier AI problem statements that shape the future of entertainment and technology
• High autonomy, direct accountability, and global reach