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title: 'Founding Recruiter at Nova Intelligence'
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# Founding Recruiter at Nova Intelligence

- **Company:** Nova Intelligence
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-05-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/novaintelligence/e0f48933-8222-4236-b76f-04a918d5052a

## Job description

We’re hiring our first in-house recruiter to build the recruiting function at Nova.

We recently closed our Series A and expect to grow significantly over the next year. You’ll work closely with the founding team to help us hire exceptional people across the company while building a recruiting process that is fast, thoughtful, and consistent.

The role covers engineering, SAP, go-to-market, operations, and future leadership hires, with a particular focus on hiring top software engineers in New York.

You’ll own the candidate experience from first outreach through offer, partner with external search firms where helpful, and shape how Nova presents itself to prospective employees.

## RESPONSIBILITIES

- Own recruiting from initial sourcing through offer across engineering, SAP, go-to-market, operations, and leadership roles
- Build a strong outbound sourcing program, with a particular focus on top software engineers in New York
- Identify and engage talented candidates who may not be actively looking for a new role
- Work closely with hiring managers and the founding team to define hiring needs, evaluate candidates, and move searches forward
- Build Nova’s reputation with candidates through thoughtful outreach, recruiting events, and a strong presence in relevant communities
- Set the recruiting strategy: determine where to find the best candidates, understand what is working, and adjust the approach when needed
- Manage relationships with external recruiters and search firms
- Create a candidate experience that is organized, responsive, and respectful of people’s time
- Build the systems, processes, and tools that will allow recruiting to scale as the company grows

## WHO YOU ARE

- You have 4+ years of recruiting experience, with a strong technical recruiting foundation and meaningful experience hiring top software engineers, ideally at a high-growth startup
- You have hired across different functions and seniority levels, from individual contributors to senior leaders, and can quickly learn unfamiliar talent markets
- You are a strong communicator and storyteller: you can explain the product, articulate why the opportunity is exciting, and build real conviction in candidates
- You are a hunter. You build pipeline rather than wait for inbound, and you know how to reach people who are not actively looking
- You are a first-principles problem solver who is comfortable working without an established playbook
- You are AI-native and use AI tools and workflows to improve sourcing, outreach, scheduling, and recruiting operations
- You move quickly, write well, and have strong judgment about talent

## About Nova Intelligence

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Nova Intelligence provides an agentic AI platform for SAP teams to document, simplify, build, and test custom code, enabling faster S/4HANA transformation and a clean core.
- **Entity Type**: Private (raised $40M; backed by SAP.iO, Accel, and Chemistry)
- **Headquarters**: New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Emma Qian (CEO), Samuel Yang (CTO), Prof. Dr. Alexander Zeier (Chief Scientist)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise AI / SAP modernization
- **Target customers**: Global 2000 companies running SAP (B2B, Enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose**: “Revolutionizing how the world’s largest companies operate – in SAP and beyond” by merging deep SAP expertise with cutting-edge AI.

## Products & Services
- **Nova Platform (Agentic AI for SAP)**: An AI agent platform that accelerates SAP development, documentation, testing, and fit-to-standard analysis. Key capabilities:
  - **AI Coding & Debugging**: Generate and modernize ABAP Cloud and BTP CAP code, debug production issues, and perform unit testing.
  - **Fit-to-Standard Analysis**: Map custom code to SAP standard to reduce complexity and TCO.
  - **Documentation**: Automatically generate and maintain functional and technical documentation.
  - **Security Testing**: Zero-trust security model, automated security checks in CI/CD, dependency scanning, and penetration testing.
  - **Impact Analysis**: Understand how changes affect the entire SAP landscape.
  - **Clean Core Transformation**: Ensure upgrade-safe, standard-first customizations.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: $40M total funding (announced in 2025/2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Accel, Chemistry, SAP.iO (SAP’s venture arm)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - 110% year-over-year headcount growth (now ~15 employees per LinkedIn)
  - Teams using Nova report 3x productivity boosts and 5x average gains across tasks
  - SOC 2 and GDPR compliant; zero-trust security infrastructure

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep SAP Expertise**: Co-founded by the co-inventor of SAP HANA (Prof. Dr. Alexander Zeier) and a former Google DeepMind AI researcher (Emma Qian).
- **Silicon Valley + SAP Heartland Blend**: Combines best practices from top VCs with decades of SAP domain knowledge.
- **Security by Design**: Enterprise-grade encryption (TLS 1.3, AES-256), HSM-backed keys, role-based access, and audit logging.
- **Platform Lock-In with Clean Core**: Agents natively enforce SAP’s Clean Core strategy, making upgrades safer and reducing long-term TCO.
- **Speed as a Moat**: Claim to compress weeks of work into hours or days.

## Strategic Focus
- **Accelerating S/4HANA transformation** and reducing custom code complexity for large enterprises.
- **Expanding beyond SAP** into adjacent enterprise systems, as hinted by “in SAP and beyond.”
- **Building a category-defining company** in the $100B+/year SAP ecosystem, with plans to scale engineering, sales, and customer engineering teams.

## Why Work Here
- **Engineering Culture**: Flat, fast, AI-first – every engineer gets unlimited access to Codex/Claude Code. “Every line of code you ship powers systems that move billions of dollars.”
- **Compensation**: Top-of-market cash, meaningful early-stage equity, quarterly performance bonuses.
- **Work Environment**: Hybrid with offices in San Francisco and New York; global travel to meet customers and teammates (Zurich, Munich, Madrid, Mexico City).
- **Perks**: Medical, dental, vision, commuter benefits, annual company offsites.
- **Values**: “Debate fast, commit fully,” “customer obsessed,” “no task is beneath anyone,” and “speed is a moat.”
- **Team Composition**: Small but mighty – work alongside ex-founders, top AI researchers, and SAP veterans.

## Sources
1. [novaintelligence.com](https://www.novaintelligence.com/)
2. [novaintelligence.com/about](https://www.novaintelligence.com/about)
3. [novaintelligence.com/careers](https://www.novaintelligence.com/careers)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/novaintelligence](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/novaintelligence)
5. [linkedin.com/company/novaintelligence](https://www.linkedin.com/company/novaintelligence)

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