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We are working toward a future where Terac deeply understands:\nWhat every person is capable of, what they want, and where they can thrive\n\nWhat work our customers need completed and what success requires\n\nWhat creates a great match between the two\n\nWith this understanding, Terac can intelligently allocate human capability to the work where it creates the most value for both our experts and customers. Today, our initial wedge is providing specialized experts for AI training, evaluation, market research, and other expert-driven research.\nWe place 1,000s of experts per month and pay our experts, on average, over $90/hr. We're a team of 15 based in San Francisco. We've raised $16M from SignalFire, Emergence, Audacious, and SV Angel, and we work with leading AI labs and research companies.\nThe problems we get to solve\nTerac is a two-sided marketplace, and the most interesting problems live where the money moves. Some of the fun ones:\nPricing work we've never seen before: every project is different (a cardiologist for a 30-minute interview, 200 Amharic transcribers, a team of licensed engineers building RL environments), and we have to quote it in hours, not weeks.\n\nSetting the right pay for experts: rates vary by domain, country, and urgency. Pay too little and the best experts walk. Pay too much and the project stops working for the customer.\n\nManaging spread and take rate: the gap between what customers pay and what experts earn funds everything we build, and it looks different across market research, AI training, and data collection.\n\nLiquidity on both sides: the right experts available the moment a customer needs them, across thousands of niches, without burning out supply or overpromising to demand.\n\nMoving money globally: we pay experts across dozens of countries every month, often before customers pay us, which creates real working capital, FX, and fraud challenges.\n\nAbout the role\nThe people we hire over the next year will define Terac. Today, the founders run recruiting themselves across engineering, GTM, operations, and strategic projects roles. You will be our first recruiter and own internal hiring end to end, partnering directly with the CEO and CTO to build a world-class, in-person team in San Francisco.\nYou'll recruit the people who solve the problems above, and those problems are a big part of how you'll sell candidates on Terac.\nYou thrive in ambiguity, have exceptional judgment about people, and treat closing a great candidate like closing a deal.\nYou will:\nOwn full-cycle recruiting: sourcing, outreach, screening, interview coordination, references, and closing across every function.\n\nSource relentlessly: find exceptional people through LinkedIn, Juicebox, referrals, our investor networks, events, and any other channel you can dream up.\n\nClose candidates: sell the Terac vision, run offer conversations alongside the founders, and make every candidate's experience great, whether or not they join.\n\nBuild the hiring machine: interview loops, scorecards, Ashby workflows, pipeline metrics, and an employer brand 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