--- title: 'Talent Lead at White Circle' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/talent-lead-white-circle-remote-4r6c7dgw1p84' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-12' --- # Talent Lead at White Circle - **Company:** White Circle - **Location:** Remote - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-09-06 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/whitecircle/0ebdd8f7-320f-4f04-95ab-4d3f29a4d3a5 ## Job description TL;DR: We’re looking for a hands-on Talent Lead to own and build our hiring function from scratch. You’ll personally drive hiring across the company, build scalable recruiting processes, track hiring performance, and work closely with the Head of People and hiring managers across GTM, Ops, Research, and Product. ## About us [White Circle](https://whitecircle.ai) is an AI Safety company building the safety, reliability, and optimization layer for AI systems. At the core of our platform are policies – simple natural-language rules that define what an AI model should and shouldn’t do. We automatically test, enforce, and continuously improve these policies at scale. - We’ve raised $11M from top funds, founders, and senior leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, HuggingFace, Mistral, DeepMind, Datadog, Sentry, and others - We process over one hundred million API calls every month - We fine-tune and train our own LLMs so they run faster and cheaper than any open or proprietary model We’re a small, highly focused team. If you want to work deeply on hard problems, see your work ship to production quickly, and influence how AI safety is actually built – you’re the one we need. You will: - Own and run the hiring process end-to-end (sourcing, screening, interviews, and closing) - Personally source and hire candidates across the company (this is a hands-on recruiting role) - Build our hiring processes and infrastructure from scratch, including interview loops, scorecards, pipelines, and candidate tracking - Work closely with hiring managers to define roles, hiring priorities, and candidate profiles - Drive hiring across a wide range of functions, including GTM, Ops, Research, Product, and Engineering - Lead international hiring across the US, EU, UK, and other markets as we expand - Build and maintain hiring metrics and reporting, including pipeline conversion, time to hire, source performance, and offer acceptance - Use hiring data to identify bottlenecks and continuously improve the recruiting process - Build and maintain strong sourcing channels across different functions and geographies - Develop a strong candidate experience and represent White Circle throughout the hiring process - Help define and improve our approach to hiring, including how we assess candidates and make hiring decisions - Partner with leadership on long-term talent planning and hiring strategy You’ll fit right in if you: - Have several years of experience running hiring at a startup, ideally in an early-stage or high-growth environment - Have personally hired a meaningful number of people and are comfortable owning the full recruiting process yourself - Have built hiring processes and recruiting operations from scratch - Have experience hiring across multiple functions, including GTM, Operations, Research, Product, and Engineering - Have experience with international hiring across multiple countries and markets - Are comfortable working directly with leadership and senior hiring managers - Are highly data-driven and comfortable tracking and analysing recruiting metrics - Are an excellent sourcer and know how to find strong candidates beyond simply posting jobs - Communicate clearly and build strong relationships with both candidates and hiring managers - Are comfortable operating independently in an environment where processes are still being built - Speak and write fluent English (C1+) A big plus: - Experience hiring for AI, ML, and Research roles - Experience building a recruiting function as the first or one of the first talent hires - Experience hiring in the US, EU, and UK - Experience with employer branding and building a strong talent pipeline - Experience using AI tools to improve sourcing, screening, research, or recruiting ops ## Why White Circle - Meaningful equity package - Paid time off in line with your local regulations, no matter where you work from - All the hardware, tools, and services you need - Covered subscriptions for AI agents - Team off-sites twice a year: we’ve recently been to the Alps, Saint-Tropez, and Mabella ## How we hire - Introductory call with Head of People (25 min) - Practical Recruitment Exercise with Head of People (60 min) - Final conversation with our CEO (45 min) Please submit your application in English. ## About White Circle ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: White Circle is a control layer for AI in production, providing safety, security, evals, and performance optimization through a unified API. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage) - **Headquarters**: Dover, Delaware, United States (operational hub in Paris, France) - **Founded**: 2025 - **Founders**: Denis Shilov (Founder & CEO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: AI Governance, AI Security, AI Observability - **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise (companies deploying AI agents, chatbots, or LLM-powered applications) - **Mission or purpose**: To give organisations visibility into how their AI behaves, help them respond when things go wrong, and provide a unified system for improving reliability, safety and compliance. ## Products & Services - **White Circle Platform**: A single API that integrates three layers: - **Protect**: Custom low-latency guardrails for blocking unsafe inputs, preventing jailbreaks, detecting prompt injections, PII leakage, and sensitive data leaks. - **Observe**: Real-time analytics including topic classification, user behavior clustering, custom metrics, error rate analysis, sentiment analysis, and risk scoring. - **Improve**: Model routing, dynamic prompt engineering, context enrichment, and automated optimization based on labelled user feedback. - **CircleGuardBench**: A proprietary benchmark for evaluating AI moderation models across harm detection, jailbreak resistance, false positives, and latency. - **KillBench**: A benchmark of hidden LLM biases in critical decisions (life-and-death scenarios). ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: $11M raised in seed funding (announced May 2026) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by prominent AI and technology leaders including Romain Huet (ex-Head of Product @DeepMind), Dirk Kingma (Anthropic), Guillaume Lample (Mistral), Thomas Wolf (Hugging Face), Olivier Pomel (Datadog), François Chollet (Keras), Mehdi Ghissassi (ex-DeepMind), Paige Bailey (DeepMind), and David Cramer (Sentry). - **Growth Signals**: - 21 employees (+283.3% YoY, +9.5% monthly growth) - Monthly website traffic: 32,090 visits (+682.7% yearly) - Active job postings: 6 (monthly job posting growth +20%) - SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliant - Operates in 7 countries (France, Russia, Netherlands, Serbia, Switzerland, Georgia, Spain) ## Competitive Advantages - **Proprietary self-adjusting models** optimized for low-latency and high performance - **Unified platform** that combines safety, security, evaluation, and performance optimization – no need for multiple point solutions - **Enterprise-grade compliance** (SOC 2 Type II & HIPAA) - **Strong network effects** from backing by leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Hugging Face, and Datadog - **Automated red-teaming** and continuous improvement through user feedback ## Strategic Focus - Accelerate product development and expand the team across the US, UK, and Europe - Grow global customer base across healthcare, finance, hiring, and security verticals - Continue building benchmarks (CircleGuardBench, KillBench) to shape AI safety standards - Maintain deep integration with the AI open-source ecosystem ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: “Smart, friendly, and fun” team with a strong engineering and research focus (43% technical staff) - **Location**: Based in Paris, France with a hybrid work model (office + remote) - **Benefits**: - Strong salary - 20 paid days off (plus ability to take more for recovery) - Free education (company covers learning costs) - Team offsites several times a year - **Open roles** (June 2026): QA Engineer, Product Engineer (Backend), DevOps Engineer, Product Designer, AI Engineer (Audio), Data Engineer - **Impact**: Build the future of AI safety at a well-funded, high-growth startup with world-class investors ## Sources 1. [whitecircle.ai](https://whitecircle.ai) 2. [whitecircle.ai/careers](https://whitecircle.ai/careers) 3. [LinkedIn – White Circle](https://www.linkedin.com/company/whitecircle) 4. 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