Bjak

Lead Technical Talent Partner at Bjak (Seoul, South Korea)

Bjak · Seoul, South Korea·

Role details

Work type
Hybrid
Employment
Full-Time

Bjak at a glance

Southeast Asia's largest online insurance comparison platform, letting users compare, buy and renew insurance and roadtax from 16 insurers in one place.

Bjak is a BNM-licensed online marketplace where Malaysians compare quotes from 16 insurers and takaful operators, then buy and renew car, motorcycle, travel, life, medical and home insurance online. It bundles roadtax renewal, roadside assistance, car repair booking and AI tools around the core comparison engine.

Job description

About ActAI

There are over 5 billion users using basic applications today such email, notes, tasks, calendar and they're not AI-native. Our mission is to build proactive applications for anyone in the world, who are not used to complex prompting. We aim to bring intelligence to conversations, errands, organising and workflows, with minimal to no prompting. Our product focuses on achieving high reliability for long-running workflows, persistent context, and real-world task completion. We believe products will greatly reduce hallucinations Our objective is to organise anyone's life, allowing us all to spend time on valuable and meaningful things

About the Role

As Lead Technical Recruiter, you will lead critical technical searches, raise recruiting quality across the team and help build ActAI's technical recruiting capability.

What You Will Be Doing

  • Lead ActAI's highest-priority technical searches across AI/ML, engineering leadership, backend, infrastructure, web and mobile.
  • Build search strategies and talent maps for scarce technical talent across global AI and engineering markets.
  • Personally source, engage, assess and close senior and difficult-to-hire candidates.
  • Set a high bar for technical profile assessment, ensuring recruiters understand candidates' actual work, technical depth and relevance before progressing them.
  • Partner closely with engineering leadership to define hiring profiles, calibrate interview standards and diagnose gaps in the recruiting funnel.
  • Coach technical recruiters on sourcing strategy, profile assessment, candidate engagement and closing.
  • Review pipeline quality and recruiting data, identify where searches are failing and change strategy quickly.
  • Develop repeatable recruiting practices that improve hiring quality and speed as ActAI scales.

What You Will Need

  • 7+ years of technical recruiting experience, including significant ownership of senior and difficult engineering searches.
  • Strong track record hiring high-quality engineers through direct sourcing and headhunting.
  • Deep familiarity with technical talent markets and strong understanding of software engineering and AI/ML profiles.
  • Ability to distinguish exceptional technical work from strong branding, titles or CV keywords.
  • Experience partnering directly with senior engineering leaders on hiring strategy and calibration.
  • Demonstrated ability to coach recruiters and improve the quality of their sourcing and assessment.
  • Strong judgement, urgency and willingness to remain deeply hands-on.

Nice to Have

  • Experience building or leading technical recruiting at an AI company or high-growth technology startup.
  • Existing networks across AI/ML and engineering communities.
  • Experience hiring across multiple markets including the US, Europe and Asia.

Why work at Bjak

  • Culture: “Results first” – outcomes over effort; direct feedback; flat organization with minimal bureaucracy; high ownership and speed.
  • Work Environment: Remote‑friendly with a “distributed team of experts” and offices in Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, Taiwan, and the UK. Recruiting globally.
  • Engineering Focus: Lean, autonomous teams that prioritise product excellence and swift delivery.
  • Career Growth: Rapidly scaling company with 356 open roles (including Lead, Founder’s Office, iOS Engineer, DevOps, ML Engineer) – opportunities for impact and advancement.
  • Note on Employer Rating: Current Glassdoor-style rating is 2.3/5 (198 reviews) – potential concerns around work‑life balance and compensation. Candidates should verify recent employee sentiment during interviews.

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