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title: 'Technical Recruiter, AI at Obin AI'
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# Technical Recruiter, AI at Obin AI

- **Company:** Obin AI
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/obin-ai/am9icG9zdDqAMXR-3lsEWSs9Agb0Gvrb

## Job description

## About Obin

AI has made plenty of promises. Regulated financial institutions need systems they can deploy, govern, and defend to a regulator. Obin is the agentic workforce for regulated finance. We build AI agents trained on how a specific firm actually works — its operating logic, its edge cases, its regulatory framework — that run inside the client's own cloud and governance boundary. Every agent we build belongs to the client: their cloud, their model, their IP. Outputs are auditable, traceable, and reversible. We help leading institutions rethink critical workflows across insurance, private credit, private equity, and commercial lending.

## The Role

Obin is scaling its Engineering, Product, and other teams and needs an experienced technical recruiter to own full-cycle hiring for our most technical roles over a 6–12 month engagement. You'll partner directly with engineering and product leadership to build sourcing strategies, run tight candidate processes, and close strong AI/ML and technical talent — all while delivering the kind of candid, well-run candidate experience that reflects how Obin operates. This is a hands-on, individual-contributor recruiting role. You will not have a research or coordination team supporting you; you'll own sourcing, process, and close for every search on your desk.

## What You'll Own

- Partner with Engineering and Product leadership and hiring managers to understand role requirements and organizational fit, translating open-ended asks into target company/talent lists, compensation frameworks, and close plans.
- Manage full-cycle recruiting for multiple complex searches across Engineering, Product, and GTM roles, from initial outreach through signed offer.
- Build targeted sourcing strategies before opening a search — identifying relevant companies, teams, and individual engineers or researchers, and mapping the competitive talent landscape.
- Partner with the broader sourcing team on pipeline-building strategy where relevant.
- Run candidate processes with timely follow-up, clearly communicated next steps, and continuous feedback to candidates, hiring managers, and other stakeholders.
- Maintain accurate pipeline data and share data-driven updates with stakeholders; identify funnel issues early and bring evidence, not anecdotes, to calibration conversations.
- Drive the offer process end to end — extending offers, negotiating, closing candidates, and generating offer letters.
- Lead process-improvement efforts as needed, including interview loop design, interviewer training, and scorecards, to improve hiring quality and speed.
- Stay current on AI/ML hiring market trends and compensation benchmarks, and advise hiring managers accordingly.
- Build strong working relationships across the recruiting team and technical client groups.

## What We're Looking For

Must have:

- 5+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting or sourcing experience at a high-growth technology company or startup, including direct experience hiring for AI/ML roles.
- A demonstrated track record hiring for deeply technical engineering and AI/ML positions, with enough fluency to hold credible, detailed conversations with hiring managers about the work.
- Understanding of core AI/ML concepts and terminology (e.g., NLP, neural networks, supervised/unsupervised learning) and familiarity with common frameworks and tooling (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, Scikit-learn) and MLOps practices — enough to source and screen credibly, not to build models yourself.
- Experience using AI tools in your own recruiting workflow — sourcing, screening, calibration, and closing.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong storytelling ability.
- Exceptional relationship management and negotiation skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at multiple levels — without direct authority — in a fast-moving, matrixed environment.
- Strong operational rigor and attention to detail, with comfort navigating ambiguity.
- A genuine focus on candidate experience.
- Experience with applicant tracking systems (ATS) and other recruiting tools. Strongly preferred:
- 8+ years of total recruiting experience.
- Both agency and in-house recruiting experience.
- A proven ability to go deep into a niche technical market and consistently surface best-in-class talent.
- Innovative sourcing strategies beyond standard playbooks.
- Experience organizing and presenting recruiting data and insights to senior stakeholders and executives.
- Experience partnering with hiring managers to build diverse, inclusive teams. Engagement Details
- This is a contract engagement, expected to run 6–12 months, with the possibility of extension or conversion to full-time based on business needs and performance.
- Compensation: $65–$75 per hour.
- As a contract role, this position is not eligible for Obin's employee benefits program.

## About Obin AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Obin AI builds production-grade AI agents that automate complex workflows for regulated financial institutions, enabling them to scale capacity without adding headcount.
- **Entity Type**: Private (seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Apoorv Saxena (CEO, Co-founder) and Dr. Valliappa "Lak" Lakshmanan (CTO, Co-founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise AI for financial services (asset management, wealth management, insurance, underwriting, portfolio monitoring, origination, claims)
- **Target customers**: B2B – large financial institutions (top-tier banks, asset managers, insurers)
- **Mission**: "Expand institutional capacity without expanding headcount, enabling financial institutions to deploy capital faster, price risk more precisely, and operate with real-time insight that was previously impossible." [obin.ai/about](https://www.obin.ai/about)

## Products & Services
- **Obin Agentic Platform**: End-to-end platform to reimagine, build, and manage production-grade AI agents inside a client’s own environment. Modular, governed, and composable.
- **Robin Agents**: Regulated AI agents trained on domain expertise to execute complex financial workflows (underwriting, due diligence, IC memo creation, wealth advisor enablement, claims processing) with full traceability and auditability.
- **Obin Financial Agent for Gemini Enterprise**: A pre-built agent available on Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services, already in production at a major U.S. life insurer and a private credit fund. [obin.ai/post](https://obin.ai/post/obin-ai-emerges-from-stealth)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available (seed stage)
- **Total Funding**: Seed round led by Motive Partners (amount undisclosed)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Motive Partners (lead), angel advisors Dr. Fei‑Fei Li and Lukasz Kaiser; partner with Google Cloud (Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Engagements with institutions managing over $1 trillion in assets
  - Deployments move from pilot to production in weeks
  - 18 employees (as of 2025) [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/obin-ai)
  - Already live in top‑three global financial institutions

## Competitive Advantages
- **Finance‑first engineering**: Built by alumni of JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Silver Lake, Google – deep domain expertise in both AI and regulated finance.
- **Governance by design**: Every agent output is traceable, auditable, and reversible; role‑based permissions and built‑in fail‑safes satisfy compliance teams.
- **Open architecture**: Transparent, modular design that runs inside the client’s environment – client owns data, models, and IP.
- **Edge‑case mastery**: Agents are trained on the exceptions and nuance that define financial workflows, not just routine 80% tasks.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepen deployments with existing clients and expand to the next tier of global financial institutions.
- Continue to build the platform’s compounding learning effect – when one institution solves a workflow, the architecture improves for all.
- Scale the agentic workforce across asset management, wealth management, and insurance verticals.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Early‑stage startup (seed) tackling hard, production‑grade AI problems for high‑stakes environments. Emphasis on judgment, governance, and speed.
- **Work policy**: Hybrid – 4 days per week in the New York office. [obin.ai/careers](https://www.obin.ai/careers)
- **Team**: Advised by Dr. Fei‑Fei Li and Lukasz Kaiser; founded by former Google AI and JPMorgan executives.
- **Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but the engineering culture emphasizes building production systems that financial institutions can trust – a rare combination of AI research and institutional rigor.

## Sources
1. [obin.ai – About page](https://www.obin.ai/about)
2. [obin.ai – Careers page](https://www.obin.ai/careers)
3. [obin.ai – Homepage](https://www.obin.ai/)
4. [obin.ai – Stealth announcement & news](https://obin.ai/post/obin-ai-emerges-from-stealth)
5. [builtin.com – Obin AI profile](https://builtin.com/company/obin-ai)

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