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# Recruiting & Talent Lead at Pangram Labs

- **Company:** Pangram Labs
- **Location:** Brooklyn, NY
- **Compensation:** $150k–$190k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/pangramlabs/3827ac6c-8903-49b7-a0b3-6366a631cb9a

## Job description

## About Pangram Labs

Pangram Labs is an AI research lab building state of the art detection products for text and image. We believe that transparency around authenticity and authorship is important, and that this is a pressing and growing issue in the era of AI proliferation. We're building a growing team focused on solving critical detection challenges for customers across sectors.

## The Role

We are looking for an experienced Recruiting & Talent Lead to build out our in-house talent motion. You will be responsible for creating and executing strategies to recruit top-tier talent to join Pangram. Additionally, this role will manage our people operations systems, including onboarding, benefits administration, and payroll. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of successfully recruiting for a variety of positions in the technology industry, be ambitious, independent, and comfortable working under ambiguity. You'll own recruiting and people ops at a fast-growing startup and define what the function becomes.

Primary Responsibilities

- Develop and execute recruitment strategies to attract top talent and fill open positions in a timely manner
- Manage the full-cycle recruiting process, including sourcing, interviewing, and onboarding
- Establish relationships with hiring managers to understand their hiring needs and develop strategies to meet those needs
- Conduct candidate assessments, interviews, and reference checks
- Develop job postings and manage job boards
- Monitor recruitment performance metrics and provide regular updates to the team
- Participate in recruitment-related events to promote the company
- Maintain accurate records and documentation of hiring processes
- Administer payroll, benefits, and 401(k) through our PEO; manage employee and contractor records, offboarding, and equity coordination

Ideal Candidate Profile

- 4+ years recruiting in the technology industry
- Track record closing technical candidates in a competitive market
- Working knowledge of US employment basics
- Comfortable operating independently and under ambiguity
- Previous experience at an early stage startup

## Compensation

$150,000–$190,000 base salary + target 20% performance bonus, equity, and benefits

## Benefits include

- Medical/dental/vision
- 401(k) with 100% employer match on first 4%
- 20 days of PTO
- Office lunch

## About Pangram Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Pangram Labs builds an AI detection platform that identifies AI-generated content with high accuracy, serving educational institutions and enterprises to maintain content authenticity.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed Stage)
- **Headquarters**: Brooklyn, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Max Spero (CEO) and Bradley Emi (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI Detection, Content Authenticity, Cybersecurity
- **Target customers**: B2B – universities, schools, publishers, law firms, HR departments, foundations, and enterprise organizations
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To mitigate new issues caused by the proliferation of powerful generative AI models" and "rebuild trust amidst the increase in generative AI content" [pangram.com](https://www.pangram.com/)

## Products & Services
- **Pangram AI Detector**: A SaaS platform that detects AI-generated text from all major LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, DeepSeek, etc.) with 99.98% accuracy and a false positive rate of 1 in 10,000. Supports 20+ languages.
- **Plagiarism Checker**: Integrated plagiarism detection in a single tool alongside AI detection.
- **AI Segment Analysis**: Highlights sections of text that were AI-generated versus AI-assisted (edited by AI).
- **API**: Programmatic access for high-volume enterprise and developer use cases.
- **LMS Integrations**: Works with Canvas, Moodle, Google Classroom, Brightspace, and other learning management systems.
- **Chrome Extension & Google Docs Integration**: Browser-based detection for web content and documents.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $3.95M
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: ScOp Venture Capital (lead, Seed round), Haystack (lead, Pre-Seed round) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pangramlabs)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew 162.5% year-over-year (from 5 to 14 employees)
  - Monthly employee growth of 10.5%
  - Independently verified by researchers at University of Chicago and University of Maryland
  - Detects outputs from unreleased AI models and humanized/AI-assisted text
  - Active job postings increased 16.7% quarterly (7 open roles)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary technology**: Uses its own deep learning models trained on diverse datasets, not open-source or commercial LLMs — giving it a unique detection methodology.
- **Lowest false positive rate**: 1 in 10,000 (0.01%), independently verified by third-party researchers, significantly outperforming competitors.
- **Detects humanized text**: Can identify AI content even after it has been processed by evasion tools.
- **Founding team pedigree**: Founders are AI researchers from Tesla Autopilot, Google, Nuro, and Absci, with graduate degrees from Stanford.
- **Peer-reviewed research**: Active contributions to the AI detection research community.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expand enterprise and education market**: Targeting universities, publishers, law firms, and HR departments.
- **Continuous model improvement**: Regularly releasing new detection model versions (e.g., Pangram 3.3.2) to keep pace with evolving LLMs.
- **Multilingual capabilities**: Expanding detection to 20+ languages for global adoption.
- **Product differentiation**: Moving beyond simple binary detection to nuanced analysis (AI generation vs. AI assistance vs. human writing).

## Why Work Here
- **Founding team from top AI labs**: Work alongside former Tesla Autopilot, Google, Nuro, and Absci researchers — a steep learning environment.
- **Mission-driven**: Directly tackling one of the most pressing problems of the generative AI era — content authenticity and trust.
- **Fast-growing startup**: 162.5% headcount growth in the last year, with 7 active job openings across engineering, ML, research, and operations.
- **Research culture**: Active publication and peer-reviewed research; engineers and researchers contribute to the broader AI community.
- **Office location**: Based in Brooklyn, New York (likely hybrid/office-first culture given startup stage).
- **Open roles include**: Senior Software Engineer (Backend), Machine Learning Engineer, AI Research Scientist, Full-Stack Engineer, and Executive Assistant — indicating a broad, growing team.

## Sources
1. [pangram.com](https://www.pangram.com/) — Official website
2. [pangram.com/about-us](https://www.pangram.com/about-us) — About Us page
3. [linkedin.com/company/pangramlabs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pangramlabs) — LinkedIn company profile
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/pangramlabs](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/pangramlabs) — Careers page and job listings
5. [pangram.com/pangram-space](https://www.pangram.com/pangram-space) — Product updates and model releases

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