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title: "Lead Technical Recruiter"
company: "Tolan"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/tolan"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/tolan-lead-technical-recruiter-8fcf69ad-6108-4eb0-9dbf-a93156281077"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tolan/766c7726-7425-41e8-979b-e76e8a334f87"
workplace: onsite
location: "San Francisco"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: lead
role: people
region: united-states
salary: "$140,000–$200,000 per year"
date_posted: 2026-09-08T21:59:14.644Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-17T11:39:27.060Z
---

# Lead Technical Recruiter

**Tolan** · San Francisco

Salary: $140,000–$200,000 per year

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tolan/766c7726-7425-41e8-979b-e76e8a334f87

## About the role

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/)).

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