What is SilkTalent?
SilkTalent is an AI-powered recruiting firm. We back the best independent and agency recruiters with best-in-class recruiting tools — paid for by us — plus custom-built products proven to drive higher response rates and faster fills, alongside a guaranteed salary. Run more searches, close more clients, and keep the upside of the business you build. In short: your book, your clients, our technology and capital behind you.
Why Join?
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Top investors: Raised $5M+ from top investors including Y Combinator, SoftBank, and top execs from Instacart, Twitter, General Catalyst, Asana, and Ramp
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Rapid growth: We’ve doubled revenue monthly since launch, and are already profitable
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Team quality: Our team has built and scaled products at Meta, Amazon, Instacart, Twitter, Microsoft, and Squarespace, and studied at Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and Yale.
What you’ll get
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Guaranteed base salary + uncapped performance pay. The stability of a salary without giving up the economics of running your own desk. No more zero-income quarters.
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Revenue share on every client you bring. You earn a cut of account revenue on top of placement fees.
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Exclusivity on every search. No marketplace races, no competing recruiters on your roles.
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Founding-level equity. Real ownership in the firm you're helping build.
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Tools and tech, on us. We pay for top recruiting tools and build custom products for you — proven to lift response rates and fill rates — so your time goes to clients, candidates, and closing.
What You'll Do
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Win clients. Convert your existing book and open new accounts — fast-growing, VC-backed startups hiring for hard-to-fill technical roles.
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Own those accounts end to end: relationships, expansion, renewals.
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Run full-cycle searches with our tools multiplying your output — your job is judgment, negotiation, and closing.
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Shape the product. As a founding recruiter, your feedback directly drives what we build.
Requirements
You currently make your living winning clients and filling their roles — on contingency, retained, or embedded — at an agency, on your own desk, or as the founder of your own shop. This is a business development role as much as a recruiting role: you bring in clients, own those accounts, and earn a share of the revenue they generate. Specifically, we're looking for:
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Agency, freelance, or founder background — 5+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting at an agency, on your own desk, or running your own firm. In-house-only backgrounds will not be considered.
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A real book of business — founders and hiring managers who pick up when you call, and $500K+ in annual billings you personally generated.
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Proven BD ability — you have signed clients yourself, not inherited them. You're as comfortable selling a search as running one.
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Startup depth — you've placed founding engineers, AI/ML talent, or early GTM hires at Series A–C companies and know what great looks like at that stage.
Nice to Have
- Experience recruiting for AI-native companies or deeply technical roles (infra, ML, robotics)
- A network of strong independent recruiters you'd want alongside you
- Bay Area based — not required, but a plus
NOTE: This is not a role at SilkChart, and it is not an in-house talent acquisition position. SilkTalent is a new, separate company (currently in stealth) built by the SilkChart founders and backed by $5M+ in venture funding. This role is for recruiters who have run their own book of business — at an agency, as a freelancer, or as founders of their own firm.
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