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# Talent Sourcer (Contract) at Pensive

- **Company:** Pensive
- **Location:** Remote
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-31
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/pensive/5ef30b1f-a219-4b80-a3e6-7ec538883a69

## Job description

Builders (https://builders.cv) is an AI recruiting platform that works with 20+ fast-growing Seed-Series B startups.

As a talent sourcer, you will be sourcing the best-fit candidates for the roles our partner companies are hiring.

This is a remote role, but you are welcome to work in our SF office.

## About Pensive

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Pensive provides an AI-powered grading and tutoring platform for STEM courses at colleges and universities, automating assessment creation, grading, and personalized student feedback.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2024 (implied by funding timeline and early milestones)
- **Founders**: Yoonseok Yang (CEO, Co-founder), MinJune Kim (CTO, Co-founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Educational Technology (EdTech), specifically AI in higher education
- **Target customers**: B2B – colleges, universities, and individual instructors teaching STEM courses (e.g., computer science, engineering, math)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To transform teaching and learning at scale by providing instructor-led AI tools that save time on grading and deliver richer, more personalized feedback to students.

## Products & Services
- **Pensive AI Grader**: AI-powered grading assistant that creates rubrics, grades assignments 10x faster, and provides personalized feedback to students. Designed for large STEM courses.
- **Pensive AI Tutor**: A scalable small-group tutoring system that uses AI to facilitate tutoring sessions, demonstrated in a paper accepted at SIGCSE 2025.
- **Pensive Discuss**: A research-driven tool (presented at SIGCSE 2025) enabling scalable small-group CS tutoring with AI.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $6.8M–$6.9M (Seed Round led by Mayfield Fund, closed ~February 2026). Includes a prior Grant led by WGU Labs.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Mayfield Fund (lead), Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Reach Capital, Bass Investment, Anti Fund, WGU Labs. Partnership with Anthropic (for AI models).
- **Growth Signals**: 1,000+ instructors across 100+ institutions (as of Feb 2026); 64% of workforce in the US with small teams in Philippines and South Korea; cited by top institutions like Columbia University and UC Berkeley; paper accepted at SIGCSE 2025; active presence at ASEE 2025 conference.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Instructor-led AI**: Unlike fully automated grading tools, Pensive emphasizes instructor control and oversight, reducing concerns about cheating and academic integrity.
- **STEM specialization**: Deep focus on STEM courses (CS, engineering, math) where grading is complex and time-consuming.
- **Research-backed**: Academic papers at top conferences (SIGCSE) validate their approach and pedagogy.
- **Partnership with Anthropic**: Leverages cutting-edge AI models (likely Claude) for robust and reliable feedback.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling adoption**: Expanding beyond early-adopter institutions into broader higher education markets.
- **Product depth**: Enhancing the AI grader and tutor with richer feedback capabilities and new features.
- **Sales & GTM**: Hiring Founding Account Executives to drive enterprise sales to universities and colleges.
- **International growth**: Presence in South Korea and Philippines signals potential expansion into Asia.

## Why Work Here
- **High-impact mission**: Directly improve the experience of millions of college students and free up instructors from tedious grading work.
- **Tight-knit, early-stage team**: ~10 employees, offering significant ownership and influence for early hires.
- **Remote-friendly location**: HQ in San Francisco (1 Brady Street, Suite A-725) with hybrid flexibility implied by distributed team (US, Philippines, South Korea).
- **Competitive compensation**: Salary ranges for open roles are $135K–$300K (estimated), typical for well-funded Bay Area startups.
- **Strong investor backing**: Backed by top-tier VCs (a16z, Sequoia, Mayfield) and a partnership with Anthropic, providing stability and resources.
- **Culture of innovation**: Active in academic research and conferences, encouraging a learning-oriented engineering culture.

## Sources
1. [pensive.com - Careers Page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/pensive)
2. [CB Insights - Pensive Company Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/pensive)
3. [LinkedIn - Pensive Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pensiveai)
4. [Basin - Pensive Open Roles & Salary Data](https://basin.cv/companies/pensive)
5. [pensive.com - Terms of Service](https://www.pensive.com/schools/terms-of-service)

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