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title: 'Founding Recruiter at Edra'
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# Founding Recruiter at Edra

- **Company:** Edra
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/edra/339e69ff-423b-4aa7-ad18-9a3542c10fdf

## Job description

## About Edra

Edra is solving one of the hardest problems in enterprise AI: AI models are generic but company processes are specific. We build AI agents that learn how processes actually run, and then run their operations. We're a Series A startup, backed by Sequoia and other leading VC firms, led by Co-Founders who created and led Forward Deployed AI Engineering at Palantir, and we're growing our team in New York and London. We're a deeply technical team of engineers, AI researchers, and strategists with a high bar for talent and a shared belief that exceptional people are the foundation of everything great we'll build.

## The Role

We’re hiring our first recruiter–someone to serve as a builder of Edra’s talent engine. This is a hands-on role that will build the foundation of Edra’s talent acquisition motion, including owning in-the-weeds sourcing and foundational recruiting ops. You’ll partner directly with the Founders and founding engineers to hire exceptional technical talent, build scalable recruiting processes, and craft a hiring culture that reflects our values of technical excellence, rigor, and drive. Sourcing exceptional top-of-funnel talent is our number one priority, and will be the primary indicator of success in this role at the start. We expect the person in this role to hold strong opinions about the best way to drive this outcome, and to own execution hands-on.

## What You’ll Do

- Source exceptional talent: quickly understand our hiring profiles and fill top of funnel with strong candidates in both New York and London markets
- Lead early hiring: partner with Founders and hiring managers to recruit world-class engineers and technical talent across disciplines
- Build the recruiting stack: design and implement recruiting operations from scratch, including ATS setup (Ashby), sourcing/CRM systems, interview loops, and candidate experience
- Run RecOps: keep our hiring machine moving, and help our hiring teams go from first intro to accepted offer fast and frictionlessly
- Scale yourself: as we continue to grow and ramp hiring, scale recruiting to support ongoing hiring needs (with a bias towards leveraging AI tooling to scale your impact before scaling the team).
- Sell the opportunity: sell Edra’s mission and opportunity to candidates, ensuring they leave every interaction more excited than when they came in
- Shape our early talent philosophy: Define how we hire, ensuring a consistent, fair, and high-bar interview process that optimizes speed to hire and reflects a strong employer brand

## What We’re Looking For

- Experience: 4+ years of professional experience, with some experience sourcing & recruiting talent for top-tier tech orgs (even better if you have experience across both US & UK)
- Technical fluency: you speak engineer (maybe you even have a CS background), and have experience recruiting for complex engineering roles
- Interviewing expertise: you’re a skilled interviewer who can screen candidates thoughtfully to make sure our engineers are talking to the best of the best
- Builder mindset: you’ve built or rebuilt recruiting systems, processes, and teams from the ground up
- Hands-on operational chops: you’re comfortable with running recruiting ops, and building out the tooling needed to support your function and scale operations

Learn More About Edra

- [Watch our Series A announcement video](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/eugen-alpeza_at-palantir-yannis-and-i-spent-years-doing-activity-7440038397383032832-Di8f?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAABJB3z0BkalWJ3s4sVxB7Gz6TE_b-i8IMto)
- [Read our blog post from our launch](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/edra-out-stealth-edra-ai-wecqe/)
- [Learn more about what we're building](https://x.com/edra_ai/status/2034268633308742073)

## Compensation & Benefits

Edra offers generous compensation and benefits in both New York & London:

- Competitive base salary & meaningful equity
- Top tier health, dental, & vision plans:
- Top plans with 100% premium coverage in the US (and a One Medical membership)
- Private medical & dental coverage in the UK
- Flexible paid time off
- Lunch provided in office most days, snacks & drinks too
- A stipend to set up your workspace

A Few Details We work together in person five days a week from our offices in the West Village (New York) and Holborn (London).

Edra is an equal opportunity employer and we encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds. Edra does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.

## About Edra

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Edra builds AI agents that automatically reverse-engineer how a business operates from its existing systems (tickets, logs, messages) and turns that into executable knowledge to automate complex, company-specific workflows.
- **Entity Type**: Private – Series A (backed by Sequoia Capital, 8VC, A*, HubSpot Ventures)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, USA
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Eugen Alpeza (CEO & Co-Founder), Yannis Karamanlakis (Co-Founder & CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise AI / AI Agents for IT Service Management (ITSM) and Technical Support
- **Target customers**: B2B – mid-market to enterprise teams using tools like ServiceNow, Jira, Zendesk, Salesforce, and Outlook.
- **Mission/purpose**: “Your AI is only as good as the instructions you give it. Edra turns data you already have into knowledge AI can execute.” – Focused on making AI agents reliable and grounded in how teams actually operate.

## Products & Services
- **Edra AI Agents**: AI agents that learn a company’s specific processes from historical tickets, logs, and messages, then execute workflows transparently. Supports IT service management, technical support, and other operational domains.
- **Zero‑Setup Discovery**: Connects to existing systems (ServiceNow, Jira, Zendesk, Salesforce, Outlook) and within one week produces a clear view of processes ready for automation.
- **Executable Knowledge Library**: Converts discovered processes into structured, white‑box instructions that AI agents can act on – no interviews or workshops needed.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Funding**: Not disclosed directly. Total funding reported as **$23.8M** (per LinkedIn) or **$30M+** (per company announcement including earlier seed). Series A led by Sequoia Capital in March 2026; seed round led by A* and 8VC.
- **Key Metric**: 18 employees (as of early 2026) with **+340% YoY headcount growth**.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia Capital (lead Series A), 8VC, A*, HubSpot Ventures. Customers include ASOS and HubSpot (HubSpot’s AI assistant runs on Edra‑managed knowledge).
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Expanded IT knowledge base coverage for ASOS from 30% to 90%.
  - Active job postings: 15 open roles across AI Engineering, Software Engineering, Strategy & Operations, Recruiting.
  - Rapid employee growth (+340% YoY) and strong LinkedIn following (4,784 followers).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Reverse‑engineering approach**: Instead of requiring manual process mapping, Edra learns automatically from existing data sources – reducing setup friction dramatically.
- **White‑box executable knowledge**: AI agents act on transparent, auditable instructions, not black‑box models, increasing trust and reliability in enterprise environments.
- **Deep integrations**: Works with the most common enterprise systems (ServiceNow, Jira, Zendesk, Salesforce, Outlook) out‑of‑the‑box.

## Strategic Focus
- Current priorities include expanding AI agent capabilities beyond IT service management into adjacent domains (technical support, customer operations).
- Scaling the team in New York and London, with a heavy emphasis on AI Engineering and Software Engineering talent.
- Building on early enterprise wins (ASOS, HubSpot) to broaden customer base.

## Why Work Here
- **Team & culture**: “Deeply technical team of engineers, AI researchers, and strategists” with a high bar for talent. Hybrid work model (combination of remote and on‑site) – offices in New York (HQ) and London.
- **Growth stage**: Series A startup with strong founding team and top‑tier investors – opportunity to shape product and culture early.
- **Impact**: Work at the forefront of applied AI, building agents that automate real‑world business processes for global brands.
- **Perks**: Not explicitly detailed, but typical startup benefits (equity, flexible time off) are implied. Active hiring across multiple engineering disciplines.

## Sources
1. [edra.ai – Company website](https://edra.ai/)
2. [edra.ai – Careers page](https://edra.ai/careers)
3. [LinkedIn – Edra company page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/edra-ai)
4. [Built In – Edra company profile & job listings](https://builtin.com/company/edra)
5. [Ashby – Edra job board](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/edra)

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