Terac is an AI‑native research platform that sources participants, conducts human‑like interviews at scale, analyzes results, and pays out participants - delivering actionable insights in hours, not weeks. Backed by Emergence Capital.
About the role
The people we hire over the next year will define Terac. Today, the founders run recruiting themselves across engineering, GTM, operations, and strategic projects roles. You will be our first recruiter and own internal hiring end to end, partnering directly with the CEO and CTO to build a world-class, in-person team in San Francisco. You'll recruit the people who solve the problems above, and those problems are a big part of how you'll sell candidates on Terac. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 2-6+ years of recruiting experience, with meaningful time at a high-growth startup or top agency
- A track record of closing hard-to-hire engineering and GTM talent
- Strong familiarity with LinkedIn Recruiter, Ashby (or similar ATS), and modern sourcing tools
- Strong judgment and the ability to prioritize under pressure
- Being an early or first recruiter at a startup and scaling a team through hypergrowth
- Exposure to marketplaces, AI, or technical hiring
More about this role
Terac is building the infrastructure for accessing human capability on demand. We are working toward a future where Terac deeply understands:
What every person is capable of, what they want, and where they can thrive
What work our customers need completed and what success requires
What creates a great match between the two
With this understanding, Terac can intelligently allocate human capability to the work where it creates the most value for both our experts and customers. Today, our initial wedge is providing specialized experts for AI training, evaluation, market research, and other expert-driven research.
We place 1,000s of experts per month and pay our experts, on average, over $90/hr. We're a team of 15 based in San Francisco. We've raised $16M from SignalFire, Emergence, Audacious, and SV Angel, and we work with leading AI labs and research companies.
Terac is a two-sided marketplace, and the most interesting problems live where the money moves. Some of the fun ones:
Pricing work we've never seen before: every project is different (a cardiologist for a 30-minute interview, 200 Amharic transcribers, a team of licensed engineers building RL environments), and we have to...
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