Founding Recruiter
Comfy Org
People & HR
Posted on Jan 16, 2025
Founding Recruiter
Role:
We're seeking an exceptional founding recruiter who will be instrumental in building our team's future. As our first recruiter joining a 5-person team, you'll shape our hiring processes and culture from the ground up. We're at a critical growth stage and need someone who can both strategize and execute at the highest level (top 1-2% of recruiters)
You are a good fit if this describes you:
You're excited by the challenge of building diverse, high-performing teams in the AI/ML space
You have a proven track record of independently sourcing and closing top-tier technical talent
You take a first-principles approach to recruiting, questioning conventional practices and creating innovative solutions to attract exceptional candidates
You're deeply analytical about hiring metrics and processes, but understand that quality always trumps quantity
You thrive in high-intensity environments and are comfortable being hands-on with every aspect of recruiting, from sourcing to closing
What you'll do:
Build relationships with candidates through deep understanding of their motivations and our technical needs
Partner closely with the founding team to understand our unique culture and technical requirements
Source and nurture relationships with passive candidates who align with our values and technical bar
Create strategies to build our employer brand and presence in the AI/ML community
Nice to have:
You have been part of an early stage tech startup before or have been an operator/founder for a company.
This role offers a rare opportunity to be the founding member of our recruiting function and have significant impact on the company's trajectory and culture.
What is ComfyUI?
ComfyUI, in the simplest form, is a node-based engine that enables users to generate visual content using AI. It is the most popular and powerful visual AI framework with more than 60k Github stars, thousands of 3rd party extensions and millions of users.
But this is not where it stops,
ComfyUI is and will continue to be a tool for artists of the future: a human equipped with AI who can be an order of magnitude more productive than before.
ComfyUI will continue evolve to further to democratize AIs for creatives, hobbyists, storytellers, studios, developers, and enterprises.
It empowers those who were not trained with the power of the brush to also be a painter and those who do to be a maestro.
It will become an Operating System for visual Gen AI.
It will unlock a world where no stories is left untold
About Us
We are a small, intense, and well-funded team in San Francisco who push ComfyUI and its ecosystem forward. Our team comes from Stability AI and Google and many contributed to the ComfyUI ecosystem way before working here.
Our organization is flat and there is no hierarchy, only categories: devv, artz, prod, oprt, etc (and no, there is no one here with the title of Member of Technical Staff, it’s long and silly for a job title).
The only thing that matters is the quality of your cultural fit and execution. We work hard and demand a lot of each other. But we have fun: everyone is here to make something meaningful that will end up being our life’s work. If this mission excites you and you view yourself as a top-tier talent, talk to us at hiring@comfy.org. Your future latent self is waiting for you at Comfy.
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