Senior AI leadership roles are among the hardest hires in the market. The qualified pool is small, most are not looking, and a profile that looks right on paper often is not. Searches like this typically run 30 to 45 days, and many never close. For this seed-stage team, the bottleneck was never reach. It was the quality of who got submitted, and closing them.
Elena Varga
Ex-staff ML eng · LLM infra
Marcus Lee
Applied research lead
Hana Sato
ML platform, 8 yrs
Ben Carter
Eng manager, CV
Ines Moreau
Research scientist
HireBound ran the search end to end and screened 40 candidates, handling 200 to 320 minutes of first-pass screening calls the client's team would otherwise have made.
From those 40, we submitted a shortlist of 5, each evaluated against the role's real requirements.
One was selected and accepted the offer in under 15 days against the 30-to-45-day benchmark.
From a 30-45 day search to a senior role in under 15 days.
Every result on this page started with one role. See how your team's sourcing, screening, and scheduling would run on HireBound.