Founding Talent Acquisition
Location: NYC or Paris
Employment Type Full time
Department HR
Compensation $90 – $250k • Offers Equity
We're looking for our Founding Talent Acquisition hire to build our recruiting machine and scale our technical and GTM teams across NYC, SF, and Paris.
About the role
We're looking for a top-tier Founding Recruiter to join our team and work hand-in-hand with our founders. This is our first recruiting hire, and you will own how Linkup hires as we scale across the US and France.
Your core responsibilities will be to:
Own full-cycle recruiting end to end, from sourcing to close, across both GTM and engineering
Build Linkup's recruiting engine from scratch: sourcing playbooks, interview loops, scorecards, and ATS hygiene
Partner with founders and hiring managers to scope roles, calibrate the bar, and keep loops fast
Run high-touch outbound sourcing for senior technical and GTM profiles across NYC, San Francisco, and Paris
Own candidate experience so every person who talks to Linkup leaves as a fan, hired or not
Build talent pipelines and employer brand ahead of need, not just react to open reqs
Set up hiring metrics and reporting: pipeline conversion, time to hire, and source quality
Requirements
You're a great match if you:
Are excited to help build the future of autonomous agentic systems, and believe in Linkup's mission
Have strong experience (2y+) in in-house recruiting at a startup or scale-up, ideally hiring for technical, infrastructure, or AI products
Are genuinely full-cycle and comfortable sourcing senior engineers and GTM talent yourself, not just triaging inbound
Have a real outbound sourcing muscle and know how to open a conversation with a passive senior candidate
Are comfortable operating across the US and Europe: timezones, comp norms, and the basics of work authorization
Thrive in a fast-paced, high-ownership startup environment
Details
The ideal candidate will play a central role, partnering closely with the founders to build the team behind our mission. Your work will directly shape who builds the future of search for AI.
We offer a flexible remote-work policy, see the details here.
Join us and help us build the team that builds the agentic web!
About Linkup
Our Vision
We believe in a future of AI agents and the agentic web. These digital entities can create more value for humanity than we ever could alone, but they depend on the internet to operate, collaborate, take action, and gather information.
AI agents need web search. To perform well, they require information that is current, reliable, and context‑specific—not the diffuse, steadily aging knowledge frozen at their last training cut‑off.
Modern web search is built for humans, not AIs. Instead of trusted facts, it serves links, ads, and click‑bait. People want visually engaging pages; AI systems need structured truth. An AI can absorb oceans of data, while human attention barely skims the surface. Humans think visually and intuitively; AI reasons in latent space.
Web 2.0 is sunsetting. The deck is being reshuffled, and the Bing‑Google search oligopoly is crumbling. Indexing ever more pages is no longer the goal; semantically organizing facts for AI systems is. In the coming agentic web, Google’s ad‑driven model has no natural home.
Search for AI must be rebuilt from the ground up. We are reconstructing the web as a rigorously structured knowledge layer, mapping every concept, entity, and claim into a coherent semantic graph. This foundation delivers verified facts and rich context to AI instantly, unlocking faster reasoning, higher accuracy, and radically more useful answers for everyone.
Humans search Google; AI searches Linkup.
Our Mission
Reality never stands still, and neither should intelligence. Linkup reconnects language models to a living stream of verified facts, ensuring AIs remain as current and insightful as the world they serve.
Our mission is to deliver the world’s freshest, most trusted knowledge to AIs.
Our Culture
Our culture is built on the following values:
Mission. We believe we play a critical role in building the agentic web. We are 100% committed to our mission of bringing the reality of the world to AI agents.
Speed. We build fast, we build to last. We get things done, well.
Ownership. We empower every team member to take ownership of their projects, ensuring they see them through to successful completion.
Teamwork. Our strength lies in our unity. We rely on one another and embrace our diversity as a core asset.
Humility. We maintain low egos, showing respect for others and continuously learning from their insights and experiences.
We expect all team member to take an active role in shaping our company culture.
Our Team
We are small technical team, working shoulder to shoulder to build the web of agents.
A bit more about our 3 co-founders:
Philippe Mizrahi- Led the development of Lyft’s Autonomous Vehicles marketplace. Previously launched Amundsen, an open source search engine.
Denis Charrier- Founding Engineer at Niland, an audio search company (acquired by Spotify), then Staff Engineer at Spotify. 15y of software development experience.
Boris Toledano- Led robotics at Carrefour, after 3y at McKinsey & Co working on public affairs and digital transformation.