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title: 'Talent Lead at Squint'
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# Talent Lead at Squint

- **Company:** Squint
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/squint.ai/7f358c72-0000-484e-936f-ece6be61a748

## Job description

## ABOUT SQUINT

Our mission is to accelerate human potential.

Squint is the Industrial AI company that turns operating knowledge into action. Our technology serves Fortune 500 leaders across manufacturing, field services, and utilities. Companies such as PepsiCo, Continental Tire, and Tenneco use Squint to capture and activate their essential tribal knowledge, standards docs, and OT data into procedures, orchestrated work, and context for AI agents to act on.

Some things to know about us:

- We are obsessed with our customers, and they’ll tell you so themselves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQlDL4VLtXo.
- We raised a $40M Series B https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7361027928932958209/ in 2025, backed by elite investors including Sequoia Capital, Menlo Ventures, TCV and The Westly Group.
- Fast Company named us to their Most Innovative Companies list in 2025 https://www.squint.ai/blog/squint-fast-company-world-most-innovative-companies-2025 and 2026 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/devinbhushan_squint-was-just-named-to-fast-companys-most-share-7442430179882446849-ef2i/.
- We were named to Built In’s Best Startups to Work for in SF https://www.linkedin.com/posts/devinbhushan_really-thrilled-that-our-team-was-named-to-activity-7415452189810167808-1Akj?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAB8vOBIBM6Y1CF9I6eZD7s9xE_9XEUQZXdY list.
- Read more about us in Upstarts Media https://www.upstartsmedia.com/p/squint-industrial-ai-beats-anthropics-openai, Fortune https://fortune.com/2025/08/12/exclusive-squint-raises-40-million-at-265-million-valuation-to-modernize-manufacturing-for-companies-like-pepsi-and-michelin/, Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/zoyahasan/2025/08/15/ai-startup-squint-raises-40-million-to-keep-pepsico-and-fords-machines-running/, and more https://www.squint.ai/blog.

## ABOUT THE ROLE

We're hiring our a Talent Lead to build Squint's recruiting function from the ground up.

You'll own full-cycle recruiting for priority roles across the company while building the systems, process, and employer brand that let Squint compete for talent in a crowded AI market. This is a builder's role: part hands-on recruiter, part function architect.

## WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Recruit, hands-on: You'll run full-cycle recruiting — sourcing, screening, closing — for some of Squint's most important open roles, across Engineering, GTM, and beyond.
- Build the machine: You'll stand up the process, tooling (ATS, scorecards, interview training), and metrics that let Squint hire well as we scale, not just hire fast.
- Partner with hiring managers: You'll translate fuzzy headcount plans into clear hiring strategies and calibrated bars, and coach hiring managers and interviewers along the way.
- Build the brand: You'll sharpen how Squint shows up to candidates — on LinkedIn, at events, in every recruiting conversation — so the best people want to work here.
- Lay the groundwork for People: Where it makes sense, you'll extend into broader People Ops — onboarding, systems, early performance processes — as Squint's People function takes shape.

## ABOUT YOU

- You've built a recruiting function before, not just staffed one.
- You move fast, but you don't cut corners on candidate experience or hiring bar.
- You're comfortable partnering directly with founders and executives on their most important hires.
- You thrive in ambiguity and enjoy building process where none exists yet.

## WHAT YOU’LL BRING

- 6+ years of recruiting experience, including experience building or scaling a recruiting function at a high-growth startup.
- A track record of full-cycle recruiting across technical and go-to-market roles.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, including experience partnering with senior leaders.
- Familiarity with modern recruiting/ATS tooling (Ashby, Greenhouse, or similar).

## BENEFITS

Based out of our office in San Francisco, we love the energy of in-person collaboration.

- Competitive Salary and Equity
- Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental care
- Flexible PTO Policy
- Lunch and Dinner Service
- Wellness Benefit
- Maven Family Planning Benefits
- Partnership with Care.com http://Care.com
- Mental Health Services
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Pre-Tax Commuter Benefit for Parking & Public Transit
- Company-wide Retreats
- Subsidized Uber to and from the office

## A FINAL NOTE

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. Squint is an equal opportunity employer, welcoming applicants from all backgrounds without regard to race, gender, age, or any other protected characteristic. We encourage you to apply even if you're not quite sure you fit all the requirements for the role!

Ready to redefine the future? Join us at Squint and be a part of something revolutionary.

## About Squint

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Squint provides a Manufacturing Intelligence platform that uses AI, augmented reality, and computer vision to capture expert knowledge and guide frontline industrial workers.
- **Entity Type**: Private (total funding of $65M across 4 rounds)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Devin Bhushan (CEO & Founder)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Industrial software / Manufacturing Intelligence
- Target customers: Fortune 500 manufacturers in automotive, food & beverage, energy, and other industrial sectors (B2B, Enterprise)
- Mission: "Make every operator an expert" by unifying operational knowledge into an intelligent layer that improves quality and reduces downtime at scale.

## Products & Services
- **Squint Manufacturing Intelligence Platform**: Combines spatial computing, large language models, and human expertise to deliver AI-powered guidance. Includes knowledge capture & management, standard operations & maintenance, troubleshooting & repair, and spatial maps anchored to equipment. Available via mobile app and AR overlays.
- **AI-powered Assistant**: Guides frontline staff through diagnostic procedures and provides instant access to procedures, videos, documents, and notes.
- **Integrations & API**: Connects to ERP, MES, CMMS, and other systems to create a single source of truth for operations data.
- **Squint Workflows**: Shared task lists and priorities to keep teams on the same page.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: $65M total funding (4 rounds) | Estimated revenue of $1.0M (per LinkedIn)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available from current search results
- **Growth Signals**: 83 employees; presence in Canada and Germany; claims 10x faster digitization of frontline procedures and 76% reduction in expert support time; customers include Fortune Global 500 manufacturers

## Competitive Advantages
- Purpose-built AI for the industrial frontline, trained on validated operational workflows.
- Combines AR spatial mapping with LLMs for "magical" user experience.
- Rapid deployment ("see ROI in weeks, not years") with minimal integration friction.
- Ability to translate procedures into any language, connecting global workforces.
- Strong focus on consumer-grade design in an industry typically dominated by clunky software.

## Strategic Focus
- "Defining agentic manufacturing for Fortune 500 companies" – embedding AI agents that can autonomously guide operators and capture knowledge.
- Expanding from knowledge management to real-time analytics and workflow automation.
- Deepening integrations with existing industrial systems to become the single source of truth for operational data.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values-driven environment with principles like "Customer Empathy", "Continuous Momentum", and "Dunk the 3". Emphasis on understanding the factory floor through regular customer visits.
- **Work Model**: Remote-friendly with a vibrant SF office. Team stays connected via regular walks and in-person gatherings.
- **Perks**: Daily lunch & dinner, gym membership, commuter benefits, flexible PTO, generous parental/family leave, visa and green card sponsorship, relocation stipend.
- **Team**: Small, high-impact team (83 people) working on AI/AR/computer vision for real-world industrial impact.
- **Growth**: Chance to work on cutting-edge technology that directly transforms manufacturing operations.

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

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