Technical Recruiter (London, Serbia)

Perplexity
London, Serbia
Career-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have experience in EMEA technical recruiting and a track record of using AI to build sourcing systems.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 4+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience in EMEA
    — “4 years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience
  • Individuals who have built outbound sourcing pipelines for AI and engineering roles
    — “Build outbound first pipelines: advanced research, talent mapping across frontier labs and academia
  • Professionals with a builder's mindset for AI tools and automation in recruitment
    — “A builder's instinct for AI: eager to adopt new tools, automate your own workflow

Things to consider

  • The role demands working in a high-iteration environment with compressed timelines
    — “Operate with agility as priorities shift hard-to-fill roles, new pillars, and compressed timelines are the norm
  • Candidates must be comfortable engaging with senior engineers and academic talent
    — “Strong technical literacy comfortable, holding credible conversations with senior engineers

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in automating sourcing workflows using AI tools
    — “use AI to automate and augment your own workflow
  • Showcase your ability to craft compelling candidate narratives about the company mission
    — “[REDACTED] a candidate's first introduction to Perplexity, telling an authentic and compelling story about our mission, product, and culture
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Mid

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What success looks like

  • Full-cycle recruitment
  • Building outbound first pipelines
  • Partnering with hiring managers
  • Calibrating profiles
  • Shaping talent foundation
Typical background
4 years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience

Skills & requirements

Required

Full-cycle Technical RecruitingSourcing-first Track RecordStrong Technical LiteracyAi-assisted AutomationCreative OutreachBuilding Outbound First PipelinesTalent Mapping

Preferred

Advanced ResearchReferralsAi-assisted SourcingCreative OutreachBuilding Tooling

Stack & domain

Full-cycle RecruitmentTechnical RecruitingSourcingTalent MappingAi-assisted AutomationCandidate EngagementPipeline Data TrackingTooling DevelopmentCommunicationRelationship-buildingAI

About the role

Original posting from Perplexity via Ashby

At Perplexity AI, we are building products that push the boundaries of how people find, reason, and learn information. The scale and speed of our mission demand a team that thrives in environments of rapid iteration and constant discovery. As a Recruiter, you will be at the forefront of shaping the talent foundation that fuels our growth.

This is not a traditional Recruiting role. We are looking for a builder with strong technical grounding, a genuine passion for the craft of sourcing, and the ability to operate with creativity and precision in an environment where constant change and ambiguity is the norm. You will partner closely with hiring managers, and engineers to identify, engage, and inspire world-class talent, helping build a team capable of solving some of the most challenging problems in AI today. Just as importantly, you will use AI to automate and augment your own workflow, treating sourcing as a system to be engineered rather than a set of manual tasks.

What You'll Do

  • Full-cycle recruitment for engineering and research roles across EMEA Search, AI and Infrastructure
  • Build outbound first pipelines: advanced research, talent mapping across frontier labs and academia, referrals, AI-assisted automation, and creative outreach
  • Partner with hiring managers and engineers to calibrate profiles with accuracy and nuance, and to sharpen the bar as our teams evolve
  • Act as a candidate's first introduction to Perplexity, telling an authentic and compelling story about our mission, product, and culture
  • Track and analyze pipeline data to continuously improve sourcing strategy, and build your own tooling where off-the-shelf falls short
  • Operate with agility as priorities shift hard-to-fill roles, new pillars, and compressed timelines are the norm

What You Bring

  • 4 years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience
  • A sourcing-first track record: you fill hard roles through outbound and talent mapping
  • Strong technical literacy comfortable, holding credible conversations with senior engineers
  • A builder's instinct for AI: eager to adopt new tools, automate your own workflow, and experiment with how AI can make recruiting faster and sharper
  • Excellent communication and relationship-building skills with candidates, hiring managers, and cross-functional partners
  • A mindset that thrives on curiosity, iteration, and impact, aligned with Perplexity's ethos of building what has never been built before

Source: Perplexity careers (Ashby)

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