Associate Talent Researcher

About the Company

Our Client has become a trusted recruitment partner for some of the worlds most ambitious startups and scaleups. By combining expert human judgment with proprietary AI tooling we help build world-class teams at speed. Their clients include leading companies across engineering product go-to-market and executive hiring.

Theyre not a traditional recruitment agency. Research sits at the core of their delivery modelthe quality and speed of their work directly determine client success.

• Location: Warsaw Poland (Hybrid)
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Level: Associate Level
• Work Authorization: Valid Work-Permit for Poland

Were looking for a hybrid researcher-builder who thrives at the intersection of talent intelligence and AI.

Your mission is simple: identify exceptional talent faster than anyone else while helping shape the next generation of AI-powered recruiting tools.

This is more than sourcing. Youll act as a manager of AI research agentsproviding context refining outputs stress-testing workflows and helping improve the tools their engineering team builds.

• Build calibration lists and market maps for niche and senior roles
• Turn client briefs into structured search hypotheses
• Identify hard-to-find candidates across global talent markets

• Source talent for challenging and executive mandates
• Review inbound applications with a maximum 2-day SLA
• Maintain high-quality pipelines and protect delivery standards

• Execute personalized LinkedIn and email campaigns
• Create high-quality outreach messaging
• Support executive search initiatives with premium candidate engagement

• Act as a power user of our proprietary AI research tools
• Test new features and provide detailed product feedback
• Build prompts workflows and automations that improve team efficiency
• Collaborate with engineering to shape future AI capabilities

• Recruitment / Research professionals with 25 years of experience in talent sourcing market mapping calibration and pipeline qualification who are eager to leverage AI to transform how recruiting is done.
• Analytical professionals from fields such as data science consulting finance research or strategy bringing structured thinking and a strong desire to learn the craft of talent acquisition.
• Fluency in Polish and English
• Strong analytical and communication skills
• High ownership and accountability
• An AI-native mindset with curiosity for automation tooling and workflow optimization

• Startup or scale-up experience
• Familiarity with automation tools or LLMs
• Experience building workflows prompts or small automations
• Market mapping experience for niche or executive roles

• Work directly with cutting-edge AI recruiting tools
• Shape the future of AI-powered talent acquisition
• Collaborate with ambitious startups and scaleups globally
• High ownership with clear career progression paths
• Grow into roles such as Talent Strategist Founder Associate or Product & Operations Specialist

• Daily delivery standups
• High-trust high-accountability environment
• Strong focus on quality and speed
• Close collaboration with research delivery and engineering teams

If youre excited by the intersection of talent AI and building better systems this is your chance to help shape the future of recruiting from the inside out...