Job Description, Responsibilities & Requirements
About the Position
Talent Engineer / AI Automation | A-Players
Help define Talent Engineering in Ukraine: build AI agents, workflows, and analytics that transform how high-bar recruiting gets done.
Remote · Fractional → Full-time · 20-30 hrs/week to start · English B2+
Build the AI systems that make our Talent Partners unstoppable.
In 2026, classic sourcing is being rebuilt in real time. Agents process hundreds of millions of profiles overnight, but most recruiting teams are still running 2020 workflows. We don't want another sourcer who competes with the agent - we want the person who builds it.
This is the first dedicated role of its kind in the Ukrainian recruiting market. No legacy stack to fight, no playbook to inherit - you build it from scratch, with an open budget to experiment.
How we use AI - and how we don't
**AI is for: **going wider and deeper than any human team can - past LinkedIn, into GitHub contributions, conference talks, niche communities, open-source maintainer lists. Freeing Talent Partners from manual sourcing. Giving us honest, real-time funnel data instead of vibes.
AI is not for: candidate conversations or hiring decisions. Every interview and every close is human, always. AI surfaces signal - humans decide. That line is non-negotiable, and this role exists to expand our research surface, not automate our communication.
If that distinction is the reason you're still reading, you're our person.
What success looks like (first 3 months)
You'll know this role is working when:
- Time-to-first-candidate drops from ~2 weeks to 2-3 days. When a search opens, the first qualified candidate hits the client within days, not weeks.
- Talent Partners run ~10 high-signal interviews per role, up from ~5, because you've taken manual sourcing off their plate and given them the bandwidth to talk to the best people we can find.
- 3-4 sourcing hypotheses run in parallel from week one - no more sequential testing. We let data win.
- Team Tailor becomes the single source of truth. Every candidate we touch is in the ATS, profiles are complete, data flows in automatically, with funnel analytics the whole team trusts, and no debate about whether the numbers are right.
What you'll build
- Sourcing and screening agents across client engagements, internal hires, and proactive market mapping - integrating Team Tailor, Juicebox / PeopleGPT, Clay, Apollo, etc., and our internal knowledge base into reusable workflows.
- Prompt libraries and evaluation frameworks that turn our Talent Partners' tacit knowledge into templates AI can run at scale, with clear human checkpoints.
- Recruiting analytics infrastructure - real-time funnel dashboards per role and per recruiter (reachouts → replies → interviews → presentations), with data collected automatically across Team Tailor, LinkedIn, Slack, and Gmail.
You'll prototype, benchmark, and ship weekly, and document what works and what doesn't. If you want a public stage as a pioneer in this space, we'll give you one.
Who this is for
- You already built with AI - shipped agents, automations, and custom tools. Side projects count. Messy Clay tables count. Half-finished repos that actually run count.
- You think in systems. When you see a manual workflow, your instinct is "how do I make this run itself?"
- You speak recruiting - ICP, sourcing funnel, outreach quality, scorecards. You don't need to have recruited, but the logic should click in the first meeting.
- You're** **self-directed and allergic to micromanagement. Wide latitude, high expectations.
Requirements
- Demonstrated AI/automation building - send us something real, not a resume.
- Comfortable reading and writing APIs and light Python. This is a builder role, not a no-code-only one.
- English B2+ - for technical docs, APIs, and AI tooling. No client-facing communication required.
- Available 20-30 hrs/week to start, open to growing into full-time.
- Comfort with ambiguity - the role is new, and we'll shape it together.
Nice to have: prior recruiting/sourcing/RecOps exposure · experience with Team Tailor, Greenhouse, or similar · a blog, GitHub, or X presence in AI tooling.
Stack
ATS/CRM (TeamTailor) · Metaview · Juicebox / PeopleGPT · Clay · Apollo · LinkedIn Recruiter · n8n / Make / Zapier · Google Apps Script · Python · Claude / ChatGPT / Gemini APIs · Slack · Notion · Custom integration. Open budget for anything new you want to test.
How we work
A-Players is a US-based recruiting company with a Ukrainian core team. We work exclusively with impact-driven tech startups and VCs in the US and Europe - from YC-backed teams to post-Series A companies. We don't operate as an agency: we embed in our clients' teams, work on a full-exclusivity basis, and own searches end-to-end.
Small, high-bar team. Open-budget culture with real transparency on numbers and decisions. Excellence and empathy, both. AI-forward by default - we block AI-mimicry candidates from client pipelines and expect our own team to be AI-native.
You'll work closely with the Talent Partners (your first users), the Operations team (systems and integrations), and the C-level (strategy and roadmap). Expect to shadow live searches for the first 2-3 weeks before making any changes.
How to apply
If this role makes your brain start building, we’d love to meet you.
No CV handy? No problem. Share your LinkedIn, GitHub, X, portfolio, or anything that helps us understand how you think.
Apply through TeamTailor with:
- One example of something you’ve built or automated with AI. A link is great, but not required. If it’s private, just describe the problem, your approach, the tools you used, and what changed because of it.
- Three or four sentences on one A-Players problem you’d want to solve in your first month. Think sourcing systems, candidate research, automation, funnel data, ATS workflows, or anything else where you see leverage.
Locations
- Europe
Remote status
- Fully Remote
Employment type
- Part-time
Colleagues
Violetta
Talent Partner
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Applicant tracking system
by Teamtailor
Privacy policy for the A-Players employer branding and recruitment
Date of publication: 07-06-2024
We at A-Players manage our employer branding and recruitment process through our career site (the “Career Site”), and by using a related applicant tracking system.
In this privacy policy, we explain how we process your personal data if:
- You visit our Career Site (you being a “Visitor”)
- You connect with us via our Career Site, to create a profile with us and receive information about current or future vacancies with us (you being a “Connecting Candidate”)
- You apply for a position with us, via our Career Site or a third party service (you being an ”Applying Candidate”)
- We collect information about you from other parties, sites and services, since we believe your profile is of interest for our current or future vacancies (you being a “Sourced Candidate”)
- We receive information about you from our employees or partners, since they believe your profile is of interest for our current or future vacancies (you being a “Referred Candidate”)
- We receive information about you from a Candidate, who lists you as their reference (you being a “Reference”).
This privacy policy also describes what rights you have when we process your personal data, and how you can exercise these rights.
When we use the term “Candidate” in this privacy policy, we are referring to each of Connecting Candidates; Applying Candidates; Sourced Candidates; and Referred Candidates, unless it’s stated otherwise.
1. About processing of personal data
Personal data is all information that can be directly or indirectly linked to a living, physical person. Examples of personal data are: name, e-mail address, telephone number and IP address. Processing of personal data is any automated use of personal data - such as collecting, creating, analyzing, sharing, and deleting personal data.
There are laws and regulations on how companies may process personal data, so-called data protection laws. Different data protection laws apply to different types of use of personal data, and in different parts of the world. An example of a data protection law that is relevant for our use of your personal data, as described in this Privacy policy, is the EU Data Protection Regulation (2016/679, “GDPR”).
Most obligations under the GDPR apply to the so-called data controller. A data controller is the entity that decides for which purposes personal data will be processed, and how the processing will be executed. The data controller can use a so-called data processor. A data processor is an entity that is only allowed to process personal data as instructed by the data controller, and may not use the personal data for its own purposes.
We are the data controller when we process your personal data as described in this Privacy policy.
2. What personal data do we process?
All individuals
- Device information - If you visit our Career Site, we will collect information about your device, such as IP address, browser type and version, session behaviour, traffic source, screen resolution, preferred language, geographic location, operating system and device settings/usage.
- Technical and statistical data - If you visit our Career Site, we will collect technical and statistical data about your use of the site, such as information about which URLs you visit, and your activity on the site.
- Communications data - We will collect and store your communication with us, including the information you provided in the communication. This may include the content of emails, video recordings, messages on social media, the information you add to your account with us, surveys, etc.
- Contact details - Such as your name, email address, telephone number and physical address.
Candidates
- Data from interviews, assessments and other information from the recruitment process - Such as notes from interviews with you, assessments and tests made, salary requirements.
- Information in your application - Such as your CV, cover letter, work samples, references, letters of recommendation and education.
- Information in your public profile - Meaning the information we collect about you from public sources related to your professional experience, such as LinkedIn or the website of your current employer.
- Information provided by references - Meaning the information we receive from our employees or partners who refer you to us, or by the persons you have listed as your references.
3. Where do we receive your personal data from?
All individuals
- From the Career Site. If you visit our Career Site, we collect technical and statistical information about how you use the Career Site, and information from your device.
- Directly from you. Most of the information we process about you, we receive directly from you, for example when you apply for a position with us or connect with us. You can always choose not to provide us with certain information. However, some personal data is necessary in order for us to process your application or provide you the information you request to get from us.
References
- From the person for whom you are a reference. If a Candidate lists you as their reference, we will collect your contact details from the candidate to be able to contact you.
Candidates
- From public sources. We may collect personal data about you from public sources, such as LinkedIn or the website of your current employer.
- From our references. We may receive information about you from our employees or partners (such as recruitment service providers), when they believe your profile is of interest for our current or future vacancies.
- From your references. If you provide us with references, we may collect information about you from them.
- Data we create ourselves or in cooperation with you. Information about your application and profile is usually created by us, or by us in cooperation with you, during the recruitment process. This may for example include notes from interviews with you, assessments and tests made.
4. For what purposes do we process your personal data?
Protect and enforce our rights, interests and the interests of others, for example in connection with legal claims.
Affected individuals: The individual(s) affected by the legal issue - this may include persons from all categories of individuals listed above.
Categories of personal data used: All the categories of personal data listed above can be used for this purpose.
Share your personal data with other recipients, for the purposes mentioned in Section 5 below.
Affected individuals: Varies depending on the purpose of the sharing, see Section 5 below.
Categories of personal data used: All the categories of personal data listed above may be used for this purpose.
Collect information about your use of the Career Site, using cookies and other tracking technologies, as described in ourCookie Policy.
Affected individuals: Visitors.
Categories of personal data used: Device information.
Maintain, develop, test, and otherwise ensure the security of the Career Site.
Affected individuals: Visitors.
Categories of personal data used: Device information; Technical and statistical data.
Analyse how the Career Site and its content is being used and is performing, to get statistics and to improve operational performance.
Affected individuals: Visitors.
Categories of personal data used: Device information; Technical and statistical data.
Provide you with updates about vacancies with us.
Affected individuals: Connecting Candidates.
Categories of personal data used: Contact details; Communications data.
Review profiles and applications sent to us. This also includes communicating with you about your application and profile.
Affected individuals: Connecting Candidates; Applying Candidates.
Categories of personal data used: All the categories of personal data listed above may be used for this purpose.
Collect and evaluate your professional profile on our own initiative. This also includes communicating with you regarding your profile.
Affected individuals: Sourced Candidates; Referred Candidates.
Categories of personal data used: All the categories of personal data listed above may be used for this purpose.
Contact you directly about specific, future vacancies with us.
Affected individuals: Candidates.
Categories of personal data used: All the categories of personal data listed above may be used for this purpose.
Record the interview(s) with you.
Affected individuals: Candidates.
Categories of personal data used: Communications data.
Contact you to ask for your participation in surveys
Affected individuals: Candidates.
Categories of personal data used: All the categories of personal data listed above may be used for this purpose.
Contact you to ask you to provide information about a Candidate, and evaluate the information you provide.
Affected individuals: References.
Categories of personal data used: Contact details; Communications data.
5. Whom do we share your personal data with?
Our service providers. We share your personal data with our suppliers who provide services and functionality in our employer branding- and recruitment process. For example, this includes recruitment service providers and the supplier of our Career Site and related applicant tracking system.
Our group companies. We share your personal data with our group companies, when they provide us services and functionality to our employer branding- and recruitment process, such as access to particular systems and software.
Companies providing cookies on the Career Site. If you consent to it, cookies are set by other companies than us, who will use the data collected by these cookies in accordance with their own privacy policy. You can find information about which cookies this applies to in our Cookie Policy.
To authorities and other public actors - when we are ordered to do so. We will share your personal data with authorities and other public actors when we have a legal obligation to do so.
To parties involved in legal proceedings. If needed to protect or defend our rights, we share your personal data with public authorities or with other parties involved in a potential or existing legal proceeding. This can for example be in case of discrimination claims.
Mergers and acquisitions etc. In connection with a potential merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or part of our business to another company, we may share your personal data to other parties involved in the process.
6. On what legal bases do we process your personal data?
To be able to process your personal data, we need to have a so-called legal basis. A legal basis is a reason for processing the personal data that is justified under the GDPR.
When we process your personal data for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, the legal basis we rely on is normally that the processing is necessary for our legitimate interest in being able to recruit talent with the relevant competence for us. We have concluded that we have a legitimate interest in being able to perform the personal data processing for this purpose; that the processing is necessary to achieve that purpose; and that our interest outweighs your right not to have your data processed for this purpose.
You can contact us for more information about how this assessment was made. See Section 9 and 10 below for our contact information.