# Lead Technical Recruiter - Company: [Tolan]() - Location: San Francisco - Team: Operations - Employment type: Full Time - Salary: $140K – $200K - Posted: September 8, 2026 ## Job description Tolan is building personal AI that helps people think, reflect, and take action in their real lives. We're an experienced team that previously founded Even, acquired for $300M in 2022. Tolan is backed by the designers and founders behind Instagram, Retro, Behance, Vimeo, and Notion. ### **The Role** We’re hiring a **Lead Technical Recruiter** to partner with our engineering & product teams, as well as our founders, to source, sell, and close the best engineers and designers in the world. This will be a low-volume, high-craft effort that drives tremendous impact for our organization. The right person for this role cares deeply about the art & science of recruiting and works well in ambiguous, fast-paced startup environments. ### **What You'll Do** * Source and hire top-tier engineering and design talent. * Leverage AI as a force multiplier (you will have an unlimited token budget). * Build recruiting ops infrastructure, tooling, and programming in partnership with executives. * Procure and manage third party resources (agencies, embedded firms) to supplement your efforts. ### Who We're Looking For * **Relevant experience**. You have 2+ years of experience hiring technical roles at growth stage startups. * **High-stakes operator**. The hires you’ve made accelerated the trajectories of companies and created real enterprise value. * **Elite stakeholder management.** You’ve supported best-in-class founders, executives, and other hiring managers. * **AI-curious**. You have experience (or a deep interest in) using the latest AI tools to execute recruiting work at scale. * **Thrives in ambiguity**. You have the “just figure it out” quality that is essential for any recruiter in startups. ### A Note about the Tolan Recruiting Team Together with our [Head of Talent](https://www.linkedin.com/in/willchinburg/), this person will form the nucleus of the Tolan Recruiting org. This person will own all of Tech & Design hiring and will have a direct line into our Founders ([CEO Quinten](https://www.linkedin.com/in/quintendf/) and [CTO Evan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/evangoldschmidt/)). ## Apply [Apply on Tolan]() Canonical job page: