21.01.2026

New York

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.

  • 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

  • Proven track record recruiting in US and/or EU markets
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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● Lots of progressive topics to tell the world about 

(e.g., impact-first culture, A-Players, diversity, equality, sustainability, mission, values, startups, investments, leadership, nomadism).

● Extreme care for your personality and talent.

● Culture of transparency and partner relationship.

● Opportunity to work with the most impact-driven startups globally.

● Paid co-working space upon request.

● Ability to build the A-Players community in the world.

● Remote work mode combined with various team activities.

● Unlimited vacation and sick leave.


A-Players
https://a-players.world/

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.

We're living by our values: impact, transparency, quality, growth, and partnership.

We are extremely exclusive about which companies we partner with. We’ve hired talent for mission-driven worldwide companies like Reface, Grammarly, Propertymate, Mindvalley, Wix, and Veriff.