Talent Operations Lead

Magic’s mission is to build safe AGI that accelerates humanity’s progress on the world’s most important problems. We believe the most promising path to safe AGI lies in automating research and code generation to improve models and solve alignment more reliably than humans can alone. Our approach combines frontier-scale pre-training, domain-specific RL, ultra-long context, and inference-time compute to achieve this goal.

About the role:

As our Talent Operations Lead, you will lead the design and optimization of our recruiting processes.

Hiring superstar talent is one way to succeed, and there’s nothing wrong with it. However, we distinctly set the goal to find hidden gems who are just about to become the next generation of superstar talent, and then we try to give them the opportunity to do their best work. We also want to keep the team small and talent-dense, so we can’t afford many errors of judgment in either direction.

In addition to running talent ops, you will help with sourcing, interviewing candidates, and ensuring a seamless candidate experience.

What you might work on:

• Designing and implementing effective interview and assessment processes
• Continuously analyzing and optimizing our processes, sourcing, and public-facing materials by leveraging data, tools and your intuition
• Drive diversity and inclusion efforts in the recruitment process, ensuring everyone gets an equal opportunity to show what they are capable of
• Ensure all recruiting activities comply with legal and ethical standards
• Sourcing, initial application review and intro calls

What we’re looking for: 

• Strong organizational skills
• Love people! You bring empathy and good intuition
• Excitement to find and cheer for candidates on their path to achieving outlier results
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Proven experience in building and optimizing recruitment processes
• Experience working in a startup environment

Magic strives to be the place where high-potential individuals can do their best work. We value quick learning and grit just as much as skill and experience.

Our culture:

• Integrity. Words and actions should be aligned
• Hands-on. At Magic, everyone is building 
• Teamwork. We move as one team, not N individuals
• Focus. Safely deploy AGI. Everything else is noise
• Quality. Magic should feel like magic

Compensation, benefits and perks (US):

• Annual salary range: $150K - $300K
• Equity is a significant part of total compensation, in addition to salary
• 401(k) plan with 6% salary matching
• Generous health, dental and vision insurance for you and your dependents
• Unlimited paid time off
• Visa sponsorship and relocation stipend to bring you to SF, if possible
• A small, fast-paced, highly focused team