Talent AI Operator
clera
San Francisco
Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Full-time
- Engineering
Job description
### About the Role Join an early-stage AI recruiting team as the human operator overseeing autonomous talent agents. You will monitor agent work, step in where judgment matters, and help define effective human-AI recruiting operations as the team grows. ### What You'll Do - Monitor candidate conversations and intervene when agents make errors or need human judgment. - Handle senior-candidate conversations, objections, compensation discussions, and other high-stakes moments. - Review agent outputs, label quality, and provide examples and feedback to improve performance. - Audit candidate matches, outreach quality, and recruiting conversion metrics. - Guide candidates through final stages, manage offers, and support successful placements. - Document effective practices, create operating procedures, and build playbooks for human-agent collaboration. ### What We're Looking For - At least 2 years of talent operations, recruiting, or sourcing experience at early-stage technology startups. - Hands-on experience using AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, or similar to evaluate outputs, identify errors, and assess capabilities and limitations. - Experience closing placements and managing final-stage candidate conversations, including offer negotiation and objection handling. - Ability to use recruiting KPIs, dashboards, experiments, or conversion analysis to guide decisions. - Experience labeling outputs or giving feedback to improve AI, machine learning, or agent performance. - Experience collaborating with product, engineering, and leadership teams, and documenting processes or operational playbooks. - Familiarity with TypeScript or JavaScript, Python, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, or Supabase is helpful. ### Compensation & Benefits Competitive base compensation with uncapped, performance-based pay tied to placements. Equity grants may be available based on performance. Health insurance and visa sponsorship are available. ### Location Hybrid role based in San Francisco, California. Remote work is also listed as an eligible arrangement for candidates in the United States.