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title: 'Talent at Tavus'
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# Talent at Tavus

- **Company:** Tavus
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tavus/5f9e1ac8-eadb-4d91-a37a-535ec2ce376f

## Job description

## About Us

Tavus is a research lab pioneering human computing. We’re building AI Humans — a new interface that closes the gap between people and machines. Our real-time human simulation models allow machines to see, hear, respond, and even look real, enabling natural, face-to-face conversations at scale. We’re a Series B company backed by world-class investors including Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator, and Scale Venture Partners. Be part of shaping a future where humans and machines truly understand each other.

## The Role

We’re hiring a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner to help scale our team across engineering, product, operations, and business functions, while partnering closely with our broader recruiting team on hiring across the organization. You’ll own full-cycle hiring for a range of functions, and help build teams as Tavus continues to grow. This is a high-impact role that will partner closely with hiring managers and leadership to understand and anticipate evolving talent needs, shape hiring plans, and bring exceptional people to our team. This role will require someone who has a proven track record of building strong teams across areas of ownership, while stepping in across functions as hiring needs quickly evolve. We’re looking for someone who thrives in early-stage chaos, loves building systems and processes, and can balance hands-on recruiting with thoughtful partnership and planning. You’ll own full cycle recruiting: sourcing, building talent networks, candidate management, closing, and hiring-manager partnership, while helping us build the recruiting foundation we need for the next stage of Tavus.

## What We’re Looking For

- 4+ years of experience, ideally in-house experience as first recruiter at an early-stage startup
- You’re a builder: you’ve created recruiting systems/processes from scratch or significantly improved existing ones, and leverage AI. Expect to balance many roles at once.
- Exceptional communication and candidate experience instincts
- Highly organized, self-directed, and comfortable working in ambiguity
- Passion for AI and the opportunity to shape a team working at the edge of what’s possible
- Demonstrated ability to operate in high-performance, high-expectation environments
- Polish — strong communication, attention to detail, and professional judgment
- You can quickly understand complex problems and structure solutions

Bonus if you have:

- Experience as a founder, or startup building experience
- Experience hiring for non-technical roles (G&A, GTM)
- Experience building out roles/processes in Ashby
- Played Portal 1 and 2 - or willing to as part of onboarding 😄

## Benefits

When you join Tavus, you’re joining a family. Our work is driven by our team, and our success is shared by all. This position has a flexible work schedule, unlimited PTO, competitive healthcare and gear stipends, as well as, of course, plenty of fun! At the end of the day, we want Tavus to be a place for you to learn, directly drive impact, and be with a team you love. To learn more about our team culture, and benefits, check out [our hiring page!](https://www.tavus.io/careers) Tavus is growing fast, and we’d like you to grow with us! Are you excited to get your hands dirty? Drop your resume and we’ll be in touch! We are not looking for cultural fits, we are looking for culture creators. In fact, diversity is what drives our success – it’s at the core of how we hire, communicate, and work. We are inclusive to all and combine our diverse backgrounds, skill sets, and thinking to build the best experiences for our clients.

## About Tavus

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Tavus is an AI research lab and platform pioneering "Human Computing," building models and APIs that enable AI to see, hear, understand, and respond with lifelike realism in real-time.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture-backed)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Hassaan Raza & Quinn Favret

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Artificial Intelligence / Human Computing / Multi-modal AI
- **Target customers**: B2B; Product teams and developers (via API and no-code builder), enterprise teams (for onboarding, training, support), and prosumers/individuals (for tutors, companions, assistants).
- **Mission**: "To make human-AI interaction as natural as face-to-face interaction, enabling the human touch where it has been previously unscalable." [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tavus)

## Products & Services
- **Conversational Video Interface (CVI)**: An API-first platform that allows developers to embed real-time, face-to-face conversational AI into any product. It enables emotionally intelligent, adaptive interactions with sub-second latency.
- **Tavus Platform (No-Code SaaS)**: A no-code builder that lets individuals and enterprises create custom AI humans for use in onboarding, training, customer engagement, or personal use by customizing personality, knowledge, and appearance.
- **Replica API**: Tools for creating personal or stock digital twins (replicas) with studio-grade fidelity, full-face rendering, and identity preservation. Supports both individual and large-scale deployment.
- **Personas**: A system for defining custom personalities and context to tailor the behavior of AI humans.
- **Core AI Models**:
    - **Sparrow (Conversational Flow Model)**: Delivers low-latency, accurate turn-taking by analyzing lexical, semantic, prosodic, and acoustic cues.
    - **Raven (Perception Model)**: A multi-modal perception engine that translates facial expressions, tone, gaze, and emotion into conversational signals.
    - **Phoenix (Rendering Model)**: A gaussian-diffusion based model for high-fidelity, photorealistic facial rendering with contextually accurate emotions and expressions in real time. [tavus.io](https://www.tavus.io/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: **Total Funding**: $40M+ (including a $18M raise in 2024 and a subsequent Series B for $40M in 2025). [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tavus), [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Scale Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator (Summer 2021 batch), HubSpot. [tavus.io](https://www.tavus.io/lp/ai-info-page)
- **Growth Signals**: 
    - Demonstrated product-market fit with case studies for clients like Final Round AI (1.2M practice minutes logged), ACTO (life sciences training), and CareFlick (senior companionship).
    - Raising significant venture capital over multiple rounds, indicating strong investor confidence and a long runway for R&D.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Real-time realism**: Overcomes the "uncanny valley" with sub-second latency and photorealistic rendering, a key differentiator from asynchronous video-generation and static avatar companies.
- **Comprehensive AI Human Stack**: Offers a full operating system (perception, memory, knowledge, action) rather than just a single component like an avatar.
- **Flexibility**: Provides multiple integration paths—a modular API, a bring-your-own-LLM option, and a no-code builder—making it accessible to both technical and non-technical users.
- **Ethical foundation**: Built with a stated commitment to privacy, consent, and empathy, and aims for transparency in disclosure (e.g., SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance).

## Strategic Focus
- **Category Creation**: Actively establishing "Human Computing" as a new industry standard for human-AI interaction, moving beyond simple chatbots and scripted avatars.
- **Developer Ecosystem**: Centered on an API-first strategy to become the platform of choice for developers building the next generation of AI assistants, companions, and employees.
- **Real-time & Multi-modal**: Continuing to push the boundaries of multi-modal AI (video, audio, text, emotion) to create more intuitive and authentic interactions.
- **Enterprise & Prosumer Scale**: Growing the no-code platform to serve both enterprise-scale training/support and personal use cases (tutoring, wellness, companionship).

## Why Work Here
- **Cutting-edge Research & Impact**: A chance to work on frontier multi-modal AI models (perception, rendering, conversation) that directly shape how humans interact with machines.
- **Culture**: Described as a tight-knit, high-output team with semi-annual full-team retreats and a focus on continuous learning alongside AI leaders. [tavus.io](https://www.tavus.io/careers)
- **Compensation & Benefits**: Offers competitive salary, meaningful equity, fully covered medical, dental, and vision for employees and their families, unlimited PTO, and a gear stipend for setting up the workspace. [tavus.io](https://www.tavus.io/careers)
- **Work Environment**: "Our team moves mountains to bring the vision to life, and we’ve got their backs." The company appears to embrace a hybrid/office culture in San Francisco (SOMA) with remote options for some roles (e.g., Senior Software Engineer). [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tavus)
- **Team Growth**: Team size reported as around 40 members. Currently hiring for roles like AI Researcher (Perception), Customer Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, and Solution Engineer. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tavus), [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tavus)

## Sources
1. [tavus.io](https://www.tavus.io/)
2. [tavus.io/careers](https://www.tavus.io/careers)
3. [tavus.io/lp/ai-info-page](https://www.tavus.io/lp/ai-info-page)
4. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tavus)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tavus)
6. [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com)

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