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# Outbound Talent Sourcer (Recruiting SDR) at Retell AI

- **Company:** Retell AI
- **Location:** Remote
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/retell-ai/e288dbb7-e819-4ca2-a20a-48ffa7b16310

## Job description

## ABOUT RETELL AI

Retell AI is using first-principles thinking to reimagine the call center with cutting-edge voice AI. Thousands of companies now use Retell's AI voice agents to handle sales, support, and logistics calls that once required large teams of human agents. Backed by Y Combinator, Alt Capital, and other leading investors, we've scaled to $80M in ARR with a team of 50, up from $5M at the start of 2025, and are now valued at over $1.5B. Our vision for 2026 is to build a modern CX platform where entire contact centers are powered by AI. Instead of basic automation that needs constant human tuning, we're creating intelligent AI “workers” that act as frontline agents, QA analysts, and managers, continuously executing, monitoring, and improving every customer interaction. We're growing fast and looking for ambitious builders who want to tackle hard technical problems, move quickly, and have a real impact on one of the fastest-growing voice AI companies in the world. Let's build the future together. Recent recognition:

- [No. 1 Best Places to Work in the Bay Area, San Francisco Business Times 2026](https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/voice-ai-startup-retell-ai-145200025.html)
- https://a16z.com/the-ai-application-spending-report-where-startup-dollars-really-go/
- [#3 Fastest-Growing Software Company, G2 Best Software Awards 2026](https://company.g2.com/news/g2s-2026-best-software-awards)
- [Best Agentic AI Software, G2 Best Software Awards 2026](https://www.retellai.com/blog/retell-ai-recognized-as-the-best-agentic-ai-software-by-g2)
- [#4 Fastest-Growing Software Vendor, Brex Benchmark 2025](https://www.brex.com/journal/brex-benchmark-december-2025)
- [Enterprise Tech 30 Class of 2026, Nasdaq & Wing VC](https://www.nasdaq.com/videos/retell-ai)
- [Top-Ranked Startup, Lean AI Leaderboard](https://leanaileaderboard.com/)
- [Backed by Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/retell-ai)

## About the Role

We’re looking for a relentless outbound sourcer who approaches recruiting like a great SDR approaches pipeline. This is not a passive recruiting or coordination role. Your job is to find exceptional candidates, get their attention, and consistently create qualified pipeline for Retell’s highest-priority roles. You’ll use LinkedIn Recruiter, Juicebox, Ashby, automation, and creative research methods to reach candidates others miss. You’ll have clear weekly goals and will be measured by qualified candidates generated, response rates, conversion, and speed.

## What You’ll Do

- Build outbound pipelines for technical and go-to-market roles
- Consistently generate qualified candidates for recruiters and hiring managers
- Create targeted searches, talent maps, and personalized outreach campaigns
- Use Juicebox, LinkedIn Recruiter, Ashby, and automation to increase output
- Test messaging, channels, and search strategies to improve conversion
- Follow up persistently and find creative ways to engage difficult-to-reach candidates
- Track outreach, responses, conversions, and pipeline health
- Adjust quickly when a search or message is not producing results
- Keep candidate records and sourcing data accurate in Ashby
- Own results rather than waiting for direction

## What We’re Looking For

- At least two years of high-volume outbound sourcing, recruiting, executive search, agency recruiting, or SDR experience
- A track record of hitting measurable outreach or pipeline goals
- Strong candidate research and written outreach skills
- Comfort working with ambitious weekly activity and conversion targets
- Experience with LinkedIn Recruiter; Juicebox and Ashby experience is preferred
- High urgency, persistence, and attention to detail
- Ability to work independently and change direction quickly
- Comfortable working full-time Pacific Time hours

How Success Is Measured

- Qualified candidates added to priority pipelines
- Outreach response and conversion rates
- Speed in building pipeline for new roles
- Accuracy and organization in Ashby
- Consistent achievement of weekly sourcing goals

Job Details

- This is a full-time, 1099 contractor position.
- The role can be remote if you are available to work Pacific Time hours, or onsite at our Redwood City office.
- Compensation ranges from approximately $2,150–$4,250 USD per month.
- Final compensation will depend on your experience and location.

Interview Process

- Introductory Call: A brief conversation about your background, sourcing experience, and interest in Retell AI.
- Sourcing Deep Dive: A hands-on discussion or exercise focused on how you would build a sourcing strategy, use automation, and develop a qualified candidate pipeline for a specific role.
- Offer

## About Retell AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Retell AI is a real-time conversational AI platform that builds human-like, low-latency voice agents to automate phone calls for businesses.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage, Y Combinator-backed)
- **Headquarters**: San Carlos, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Bing Wu (CEO), Todd Li (COO), Evie Wang (CTO), Weijia Yu (President), Zexia Zhang (CMO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Contact Center Automation, AI Voice Agents, Conversational AI, Enterprise Communication Software
- **Target customers**: B2B (enterprise, healthcare, insurance, automotive, SMBs)
- **Mission**: "A world where every business call is handled by AI that actually gets it right."

## Products & Services
- **AI Voice Agent Platform (SaaS)**: Drag-and-drop agentic framework to build, deploy, and manage AI voice agents for inbound (support, routing, appointment booking) and outbound (reminders, lead qualification, surveys) calls. Includes:
  - Real-time function calling (book, pay, update records, transfer)
  - Proprietary turn-taking model and ultra-realistic voices
  - Streaming RAG with auto-sync knowledge base
  - Performance analytics dashboard
  - Batch calling with conversion tracking
  - SIP trunking (connect to any telephony)
  - Enterprise on-prem deployment option
  - Compliance: HIPAA, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR; SSO; PII redaction; role-based access

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: $40M annualized revenue (fully profitable as of 2025)
- **Total Funding**: $9.4M (including $4.6M seed round led by Alt Capital, backed by Y Combinator and angel investors)
- **Headcount**: ~69 employees (175% YoY growth)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Alt Capital (lead seed), Y Combinator

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Voice AI Orchestration**: Built from the ground up for sub-second latency (~600ms) and natural turn-taking, not stitched-off APIs.
- **Scalability**: Battle-tested infrastructure handling millions of calls reliably.
- **Enterprise Security**: HIPAA/SOC2/GDPR certified, on-prem deployment, SSO, redaction.
- **High Capital Efficiency**: $40M ARR with only 25 employees at time of reaching that milestone.

## Strategic Focus
- Replace traditional call centers by shifting from human-staffed support to AI-handled routine calls, with human escalation for complex cases.
- Continue improving low-latency, agentic voice models and expanding enterprise feature set (batch calling, analytics, compliance).
- Scale customer base across healthcare, insurance, and other regulated verticals.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Small, high-ownership teams; >$1M revenue per employee; "ship fast" — no committees, ship this week if you can make the case.
- **Work Environment**: In-office in San Carlos (on purpose — speed and collaboration on hard problems).
- **Benefits**: Competitive equity packages, health/dental/vision insurance, meal stipends, relocation support, visa sponsorship (H-1B and other work visas).
- **Tech Stack**: Backend in TypeScript and Python, ML in Python, Frontend in React.
- **Interview Process**: Conversations with co-founders, deep on product thinking and technical ability, transparent and fast.

## Sources
1. [retellai.com](https://www.retellai.com/)
2. [retellai.com/about-us](https://www.retellai.com/about-us)
3. [retellai.com/careers](https://www.retellai.com/careers)
4. [linkedin.com/company/retellai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/retellai)
5. [cbinsights.com/company/retell-ai](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/retell-ai)

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