Talent Acquisition Lead

About Clark Clark is building the trust infrastructure for the AI economy. We're starting with audit and accounting workflows—high-trust environments where reliability, accuracy, and security matter as much as product functionality. Our platform helps firms automate complex workflows, deploy AI safely, and build more efficient operations while maintaining the rigor professional services require. We're building a talent-dense team across engineering, AI, customer success, sales, audit domain expertise, infrastructure, and marketing. The Role We are hiring a Talent Acquisition Lead to become Clark's first dedicated recruiting owner. This person will land early, run all hiring waves, and protect hiring velocity from day one. You will own sourcing, recruiter coordination, candidate experience, hiring process design, funnel management, and the day-to-day execution needed to help Clark scale the team without compromising quality. This is a high-leverage role for someone who can combine recruiting execution with strong operating discipline. Why This Role Matters Hiring is one of Clark's most important priorities.The company is entering a phase where engineering, customer success, sales, infrastructure, and domain expertise all need to scale in parallel. The Talent Acquisition Lead will turn hiring into a repeatable operating system. What You'll Do • Own Clark's recruiting pipeline across all active roles • Build and manage the hiring tracker, recruiting cadence, and weekly reporting • Source candidates directly across engineering, AI, GTM, CS, infrastructure, and audit-domain roles • Manage external recruiting firms and hold them accountable to quality and velocity • Coordinate interviews, feedback loops, and candidate communications • Improve candidate experience from first touch through close • Build sourcing strategies for hard-to-fill technical and domain roles • Track conversion, bottlenecks, and hiring risks across the funnel • Help close exceptional candidates by tailoring the Clark narrative to their motivations Who You Are • 4+ years of recruiting or talent acquisition experience • Experience recruiting for high-growth startups or highly selective technical teams • Strong sourcing ability and comfort with outbound recruiting • Excellent written communication and candidate management • Strong operational discipline and attention to detail • Able to manage many roles and stakeholders at once • Comfortable building processes from scratch • High ownership and urgency Bonus • Experience recruiting AI, infrastructure, platform, or senior engineering talent • Experience recruiting GTM or customer success roles • Experience managing recruiting agencies • Experience at an early-stage startup • Experience recruiting hybrid domain/product roles