About this role
About ClarkClark 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 RoleWe 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 MattersHiring 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 DoOwn 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 Are4+ 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
BonusExperience 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