Recruiting Lead & Talent Partner Company: Karbon Digital Limited

Location: Toronto, Canada (Hybrid / Remote)

Type: Contract / Part-Time initially with potential FTE conversion

About Karbon Digital

Karbon Digital is an applied AI company building Docufy AI , an Agentic document intelligence platform that transforms unstructured documents into actionable business intelligence.

Docufy AI helps enterprises automate document-heavy workflows across industries through AI-powered summarization, extraction, fraud detection, risk assessment, grounded Q&A;, and document intelligence.

We are scaling our engineering, AI research, product, and enterprise GTM teams and are looking for a Recruiting Lead to build a world-class talent pipeline.

Role Overview The Recruiting Lead will own the end-to-end talent acquisition strategy for Karbon Digital. This role will partner directly with founders and leadership to identify, attract, evaluate, and close exceptional candidates across engineering, AI, product, sales, and business functions.

This is a hands-on recruiting leadership role ideal for someone who enjoys building systems from scratch, creating talent pipelines, and helping a high-growth AI startup scale.

Key Responsibilities Talent Strategy & Planning

- Build and execute a scalable recruiting strategy aligned with company growth plans.
- Partner with founders and department leaders to define hiring priorities, role requirements, and candidate profiles.
- Create quarterly hiring plans across:

- AI Engineering

- Software Engineering

- Data Engineering

- Product Management

- Enterprise Sales
- Marketing & Growth

- Operations

Candidate Sourcing & Pipeline Development

- Build proactive talent pipelines using:
- LinkedIn Recruiter / Sales Navigator

- GitHub

- AI communities

- University networks

- Industry events

- Professional networks
- Develop targeted sourcing campaigns for highly competitive technical roles.




- Build relationships with passive candidates and industry professionals.

Recruitment Operations

- Own the full recruitment lifecycle:

- creation

- Candidate sourcing

- Screening calls

- Interview coordination

- Candidate evaluation

- Offer management

- Onboarding support
- Implement structured recruiting processes including:

- Interview scorecards

- Candidate tracking dashboards

- Recruiting metrics

- Hiring velocity reporting

Employer Branding

- Strengthen Karbon Digital’s employer brand within the AI ecosystem.
- Promote company mission, technology vision, and startup culture.

- Support recruitment campaigns through

- LinkedIn content

- University outreach

- AI communities

- Startup networks

Executive & Strategic Hiring

- Support founder-led hiring for critical positions.
- Assist with identifying senior engineering leaders, AI specialists, and enterprise executives.
- Build relationships with technical leaders and industry experts.

Skills & Competencies

- Strong sourcing and networking abilities.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
- Ability to assess technical talent.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to work independently in a fast-moving startup setting.
- Founder mindset with ownership mentality.

Compensation Competitive startup compensation structure including:

- Hourly / contract compensation initially
- Performance-based incentives
- Potential equity participation for long-term commitment

Why Join Karbon Digital?

- Build the talent foundation of an emerging AI company.
- Work directly with founders and leadership team.
- Help shape the future of enterprise document intelligence.
- Join a company recognized in Canada's AI startup ecosystem.
- Opportunity to influence hiring strategy, culture, and company growth.

Apply to help us build the next generation of AI talent.

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📌 Recruiting Lead & Talent Partner (Toronto)
🏢 Karbon Digital
📍 Toronto