Job Description

Remote | Full-time | B2+ English | Base ($$1000-2000) + Commission
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This is not a classic recruiter role.

As a Talent Partner at A-Players, you act as a business-facing hiring operator. You own client relationships end-to-end and are responsible for delivering high-impact hires that shape companies — not just fill headcount. You work in an AI-native way to analyze roles, markets, and candidates beyond surface signals and make high-quality hiring decisions.

You’ll work directly with founders and C-level leaders, run complex searches across Engineering, Product, Marketing, and Leadership, and represent A-Players as a trusted hiring partner.

What You’ll Own

🔹 Full-cycle client ownership

• Lead client kickoffs and clarify hiring goals, success criteria, and constraints

• Design hiring strategies, timelines, and scorecards

• Run weekly syncs with founders and hiring managers

• Own offer strategy, negotiation, and closing

🔹 High-impact searches

• Work on 3–4 active roles at a time, prioritizing quality over volume

• Hire across Engineering, Product, Marketing, and Leadership

• Typical roles include:

  • Founding / Senior Engineers (US/EU)

  • Heads of Marketing, Growth, Product (US/EU)

  • Senior CSMs, Designers, VC Analysts, CEOs (US/EU)

🔹 Candidate experience & judgment

• Conduct deep, structured interviews focused on skills, mindset, and A-Player traits

• Assess beyond job titles — motivation, decision-making, ownership, growth trajectory

• Guide candidates from first contact through offer and onboarding

Who This Role Is For

You’ll thrive here if you:

• Have a proven track record recruiting in US and/or EU markets

• Are confident working directly with founders and senior stakeholders

• Can manage multiple searches without losing depth or quality

• Think in terms of business impact, not just recruitment mechanics

• Are highly self-directed and comfortable owning outcomes end-to-end

• Care deeply about hiring done right — structured, thoughtful, and ethical

• Work in an AI-native way you already use AI tools in your daily workflow (research, market mapping, candidate analysis, communication) or actively experiment with them to think faster, go deeper, and make better hiring decisions

Requirements

• Strong English (Upper-Intermediate or higher, written and spoken)

• Ability to overlap 2–4 hours with US time zones

• Full-time availability (this is not a freelance or side role)

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About A-Players

A-Players is a US-based recruiting company with a Ukrainian core team. We work exclusively with impact-driven tech startups and VCs in the US and Europe — from early-stage, YC-backed teams to post-Series A companies scaling their leadership and core functions.

We don’t operate as a traditional agency.
We embed deeply into our clients’ teams, work on full exclusivity, join weekly syncs, help founders shape hiring strategy, and own searches end-to-end.

What Makes A-Players Different

• Exclusivity with clients — fewer roles, higher trust, deeper impact

• Full ownership — no handoffs, no “just sourcing”

• Founder-level exposure — real business context, real decisions

• High standards, low politics

• A culture built on Excellence and Empathy

Hiring Process

1. Intro / pre-screen call

2. Deep-dive interview

3. Call with our Founder

4. Call with our Co-Founder

5. Final culture-fit conversation

Ready to Join?

If you’re excited by ownership, complexity, and building something meaningful — we’d love to meet you.

Apply or reach out, and let’s start with a conversation.