As LawZero continues its rapid evolution, we are seeking our first Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition to partner with our VP, Talent, empower our growing team, and lead our recruitment strategies and efforts.
As an operational builder and people leader, your mission is to empower our recruiting team through agile processes, elevated candidate experiences, and global employer branding. In this role, you will balance team mentorship and strategic international frameworks to attract top-tier AI, research, and specialized talent, while providing hands-on recruiting support across critical mandates as needed.
Key responsibilities
- Team Leadership & Empowerment: Directly manage, mentor, and elevate our talent acquisition team in Montreal; leverage recruitment data and analytics to optimize workload capacity and foster a high-trust, collaborative environment.
- Global Sourcing, International Recruitment & Relocation: Design and execute high-velocity cross-border talent strategies to attract world-class scientific talent globally. Oversee relocation, immigration, and global mobility processes to ensure smooth international onboarding.
- Employer Branding & Candidate Experience: Lead dedicated employer branding projects to elevate LawZero's global talent presence, while auditing and maintaining an exceptional, high-touch candidate experience standard.
- Hands-on Technical Recruiting: Personally manage full-cycle talent acquisition mandates for high-priority, leadership, or highly specialized technical roles.
- Process Implementation & Operations: Build, refine, and put standardized processes in place across the entire hiring lifecycle (ATS workflows, interviewing frameworks, and scalable operational guidelines).
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with internal teams, including Talent & Culture and Marketing & Communications, to align talent acquisition with LawZero’s global goals.
- Reporting, Analytics & Competitive Intelligence: Establish TA metrics, data reporting dashboards, and conduct competitive market analysis (talent mapping, compensation trends, and international hiring benchmarks) to inform strategic leadership decisions.
Skills and qualifications
- 10+ years of technical talent acquisition experience, including 3+ years as a formal People Manager directly managing, developing, and leading recruiters.
- Proven track record in international recruitment and managing talent acquisition operations within high-growth tech startups, scale-ups, or R&D environments.
- Experience in international hiring, immigration/visa relocation frameworks, and candidate onboarding.
- Process Builder & Data Mindset: Demonstrated experience building talent processes from scratch, leveraging ATS reporting/analytics, and executing structured employer branding projects.
- Hands-on Player-Coach: Ability to balance high-level strategy, analytics, and team leadership with active, hands-on recruiting for complex technical roles.
- Deep familiarity with the technical language, nuances, and candidate landscape within deep-tech, R&D, or complex engineering sectors.
- High comfort level navigating ambiguity, fast-paced transformations, and shifting operational priorities.
- Fluency in both English and French (written and spoken).
What we offer
- The chance to contribute meaningfully to a globally critical initiative
- Comprehensive health benefits (including mental health and wellness management account)
- 20 days of vacation per year upon start
- Employer contribution of 4% to your retirement savings, with no required employee match
- Additional compensation totaling 8% of your salary to apply towards additional retirement savings or bonuses (independent of group and individual performance)
- A team of passionate world-class experts in their field
- A collaborative and inclusive work environment in our vibrant office space in the heart of Little Italy, in the trendy Mile-Ex district, close to public transportation
About LawZero
LawZero is a non-profit organization committed to advancing research and creating technical solutions that enable safe-by-design AI systems. Its scientific direction is based on new research and methods proposed by Professor Yoshua Bengio, the most cited AI researcher in the world. Based in Montreal, LawZero’s research aims to build non-agentic AI that learns primarily to understand the world rather than to act in it, giving truthful answers to questions based on transparent and externalized probabilistic reasoning. Such AI systems could be used to accelerate scientific discovery, to provide oversight for agentic AI systems, and to advance the understanding of AI risks and how to avoid them. LawZero believes that AI should be cultivated as a global public good—developed and used safely towards human flourishing. For more information, visit www.lawzero.org
You belong here
At LawZero, diversity is important to us. We value a work environment that is fair, open and respectful of differences. We welcome applications from highly qualified individuals interested in working towards our mission in a respectful, inclusive and collaborative setting.
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Skills Required
- 10+ years of technical talent acquisition experience
- 3+ years as a formal people manager directly managing, developing, and leading recruiters
- Experience with international recruitment and talent acquisition operations in high-growth technology startups, scale-ups, or R&D environments
- Experience with international hiring, immigration or visa relocation frameworks, and candidate onboarding
- Experience building talent processes from scratch, using ATS reporting and analytics, and executing employer branding projects
- Ability to recruit hands-on for complex technical roles while leading strategy and teams
- Familiarity with technical recruiting in deep-tech, R&D, or complex engineering sectors
- Fluency in English and French, written and spoken
What We Do
LawZero is a Montreal-based nonprofit AI safety research organization incubated at Mila. It develops technical solutions for highly capable, safe-by-design AI systems and pursues a pathway toward advanced AI that is trustworthy, responsible, equitable, and aligned with human goals. Its work aims to make advanced AI a global public good while prioritizing safety, integrity, and truthfulness over commercial imperatives.
