Growth Recruiting Manager

Scale AI|03 Jul 2026

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Job Description

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Growth Recruiting Manager is responsible for building and managing the contributor pipeline that powers Scale AI's AI data operations in India. This is a hands-on leadership role that sits at the intersection of recruiting, operations, and supply management. You will lead a team of Growth Recruiters, drive contributor activations across key verticals, and ensure the quality and throughput needed to hit India's hours and project targets.

This role is critical to Scale's India growth strategy. The Growth Recruiting function is a net-new, high-impact channel responsible for sourcing and activating expert contributors — coders, domain specialists, and other skilled professionals — onto Scale's Outlier platform. You will own both the team and the outcomes.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Team Leadership

- Manage and develop a team of Growth Recruiters, setting goals, providing coaching, and ensuring high performance

- Build team capacity to support India's expanding contributor pipeline across coding, expert, language, and multimodal verticals

- Create a high-accountability, results-driven team culture focused on activation quality and throughput

Contributor Acquisition & Activation

- Oversee end-to-end recruiting of contributors onto the Outlier platform — from outreach and screening to onboarding and first activation

- Get hands-on with sourcing when needed, directly using tools like LinkedIn Recruiter, job boards, and community platforms to build pipelines

- Develop and refine sourcing strategies tailored to specific contributor profiles (coders, experts, specialists)

Quality & Platform Standards

- Ensure contributors onboarded by your team meet Scale's quality bar — reviewing profiles, credentials, and early performance signals

- Partner with project and quality teams to monitor contributor performance post-activation and close feedback loops back to recruiting

- Maintain compliance with platform onboarding requirements and contributor verification standards

Supply Management & Target Ownership

- Own contributor supply targets for India across multiple active projects and initiatives simultaneously

- Forecast supply needs based on project demand, ramp timelines, and attrition; proactively address gaps

- Work closely with India operations leadership on weekly and monthly hours targets, escalating risks early

Cross-Functional Collaboration

- Partner with Allocations, Onsite Ops, and project leads to align supply with demand in real time

- Contribute to India-level planning and strategy discussions on growth, quality, and operational expansion

- Support the rollout of new verticals and initiatives as India's scope expands (Experts, Languages, Multimodal)

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Required

- 8-10 years of recruiting experience, with a strong track record of high-volume or technical sourcing

- Hands-on experience with LinkedIn Recruiter and other sourcing platforms (job boards, community platforms, referral networks)

- Proven experience managing and developing a recruiting team

- Strong ownership mindset — comfortable setting targets, tracking performance, and being accountable for outcomes

- Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple pipelines and projects simultaneously

- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English

Preferred

- Experience recruiting in tech, gig economy, or platform-based workforce environments

- Familiarity with contributor or freelancer onboarding processes

- Experience working with quality or operations teams to close loops on post-hire performance

- Prior experience at a high-growth startup or technology company

- Exposure to AI, data labeling, or RLHF platforms is a strong plus

PLEASE NOTE: Our policy requires a 90-day waiting period before reconsidering candidates for the same role. This allows us to ensure a fair and thorough evaluation of all applicants.

About Us:

At Scale, our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions. Our products provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world's leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. We work closely with industry leaders like Meta, Ernst & Young, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force. We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.

We believe that everyone should be able to bring their whole selves to work, which is why we are proud to be an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability status, gender identity or Veteran status.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation in the application or recruiting process due to a disability, please contact us at [email protected]. Please see the United States Department of Labor's Know Your Rights poster for additional information.

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