<div><p>Afresh, the AI platform for grocery, began by tackling the most complex problem in the industry: fresh, and has evolved into the core AI platform for grocers.</p><p>By leveraging proprietary AI designed for high-volatility environments, we empower partners like Albertsons, Meijer, and Wakefern to drive smarter decisions across their entire enterprise.</p><p>Following record-breaking 70% revenue growth in 2025, we have scaled to 6 enterprise-grade solutions, with solutions live in over 10% of the U.S. grocery market. Our platform now orchestrates billions of decisions from the store floor to the distribution center and prevented over 200 million pounds of food waste last year alone.</p><p>If you're looking for a role where your work directly translates into massive scale and social good, and you want to be part of the team that defines how the world eats, there is no better time to join us.</p></div><h1>Sr. Talent Acquisition Partner</h1><h3><strong>About the Role</strong></h3><p>As the Senior Talent Acquisition Partner at Afresh, you’ll act as a strategic partner to our hiring managers, identifying the technical talent necessary to drive our mission forward.</p><p>We’re looking for a high-impact closer—someone who thrives on sourcing niche technical talent and takes pride in high close rates and aggressive time-to-fill metrics. You leverage the latest AI recruitment tooling to automate recruiting pipelines &amp; are ATS and operationally minded.</p><p>You are a consultative partner who constructive strategizes &amp; pushes back with hiring managers and executives to drive the success of scaling hires. You know that top engineers are skeptical of low-effort outreach, so you lead with high-signal, technically credible communication—not 'rockstar' clichés. If you’re a full-cycle expert who knows how to move the needle on technical headcount while maintaining an elite candidate experience, this could be the perfect role for you!</p><h3><strong>Key Responsibilities:</strong></h3><ul><li>Build relationships and collaborate with business leaders, hiring managers, and HR colleagues to identify hiring needs, refine job descriptions , and develop talent acquisition strategies for openings at all levels.</li><li>Serve as a candid advisor to hiring managers to define roles and ideal profiles—including raising the bar on expectations and pushing back on requirements that are unrealistic or that will unnecessarily constrain the pipeline.</li><li>Recruit for open roles leveraging a full range of sourcing channels including referrals, internal employees, Linkedin Recruiter, and the latest AI recruitment tooling. You engage passive talent where they actually live including looking at GitHub profile reviews, Stack Overflow contributions, niche Slack communities, and Discord servers.</li><li>Plan and execute full-cycle recruiting. Manage the end-to-end recruiting process for technical positions, from sourcing and screening to interviewing and extending and closing offers. Ensure a smooth, efficient, communicative, and positive experience for all candidates.</li><li>Ensure hiring with excellence by conducting discovery calls with candidates for alignment on compensation requirements to ensure successful offer acceptance and ultimate hire.</li><li>Create exceptional candidate and hiring manager experiences by identifying and anticipating needs, following issues to closure, and collaborating with key stakeholders and exceeding expectations.</li><li>Be excited about AI tooling &amp; the impact AI can have in identifying talent and streamlining the recruitment workflow; test new theories &amp; ideas, and try new AI technology.</li><li>Ideal candidate can seamlessly pivot between technical roles (Software Engineering, Data Science, Product) and GTM roles (Sales, Marketing, Account Management).</li><li>Own our ATS (Greenhouse). You will ensure data integrity, optimize workflows, and use the platform to provide transparent reporting to stakeholders.</li><li>Must be analytics driven, building reports for the executive team on pipeline health, time-to-fill, offer acceptance rate, and cost-per-hire.</li><li>Ensure all job postings and hiring practices remain compliant with local and federal labor laws in partnership with HR.</li><li>Deliver Process Excellence. Facilitate interview debriefs, drive decision-making, and maintain a high bar for candidate experience.</li><li>All other duties and projects, as assigned.</li></ul><h3><strong>Who You Are</strong></h3><ul><li>You have 7+ years of experience in full-cycle recruiting, ideally in a high-growth startup environment where you’ve had to be self-sufficient.</li><li>You are “Technically Fluent” ie. you know the difference between Python and JavaScript, understand why React is a library and not a language, and can explain a basic software development lifecycle. You don't write code—but you can hold a credible conversation with the people who do.</li><li>You don’t just wait for applicants. You are a pro at LinkedIn and other sourcing tools and enjoy finding creative ways to reach passive talent.</li><li>You understand how to spot a high-performing Revenue talent and know what it takes to sell a mission-driven product.</li><li>You understand the art of the offer. You can navigate complex compensation conversations and equity explanations with ease.</li><li>You're honest about the pros and cons of joining Afresh—you know that authentic sells close better than hype. And you're genuinely curious about technology, keeping up with new frameworks and industry shifts not because you have to, but because it makes you better at your job.</li><li>You have the ability to work independently, manage multiple roles concurrently, and prioritize effectively.</li><li>You have the proven ability to manage 15+ active, high-touch candidates simultaneously without letting anyone fall through the cracks.</li><li>You are an expert closer with a proven track record of driving high offer-acceptance rates and drastically reducing time-to-fill through expert negotiation and proactive candidate management.</li><li>You're process oriented. Whether it's execution or designing existing process improvements, you thrive in the details.</li><li>Bachelor’s degree required.</li></ul><hr><p><strong>This position is not eligible for company sponsorship.</strong></p><p>Salary Range in U.S: $122,000 - $183,000</p><p> </p><p> </p><div><div> </div><div><strong>Why You’ll Love Working at Afresh</strong><br>At Afresh, our mission to eliminate food waste starts with investing in our people. We provide a comprehensive support system designed to help you do your best work while maintaining a healthy, balanced life.</div><ul><li><strong>Comprehensive Health &amp; Wellness:</strong> Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family, with the majority of premiums covered by Afresh. We also provide dedicated mental health support and counseling services.</li><li><strong>Invested in Your Future:</strong> Competitive base salary, meaningful equity (U.S. employees), and a 401(k) program with a generous company match.</li><li><strong>Flexible &amp; Modern Workspace:</strong> Whether you work from home or a local office, we support your setup with a home office stipend and "Coworking Wallets" for flexible workspace access.</li><li><strong>Growth-Obsessed Culture:</strong> We believe in continuous learning. Every employee receives an annual professional development budget to master new skills and grow their career at Afresh.</li><li><strong>Holistic Monthly Stipends:</strong> Beyond your paycheck, we provide monthly stipends for "Betterment" (wellness/lifestyle) and telecommunications to ensure you have what you need to thrive.</li><li><strong>Time to Recharge:</strong> Flexible paid time off to take the time you need to recharge.</li></ul><div>*<em>Full-time U.S. employees are eligible for these benefits</em></div><div> </div><p><strong>About Afresh</strong></p><p>Founded in 2017, Afresh is using AI to tackle the #1 solution to curb climate change: reducing food waste. By building AI specifically for the intricacies of grocery—from the fresh perimeter to the center store—we help grocers minimize waste and maximize sales.</p><p>Afresh sits at an incredible intersection of positive social impact, rocket ship financial growth, and cutting-edge technology. Our best-in-class AI research has been published in top journals, including ICML, and our investors include Al Gore’s Just Climate, former Whole Foods Market CEO Walter Robb, and Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors.</p><p>Grocery is the past, present, and future of our food system – the waste we create today will impact our planet for years to come. Join us as we continue to build a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive team that embodies our company’s values of proactivity, kindness, candor, and humility.</p><p><strong>Afresh provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.</strong></p><p><strong>Here at Afresh, many of our employees work remotely provided that they reside in one of the following states: AL, AR, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, KY, MA, MI, MT, MO, NV, NJ, NY, NC, OR, PA, TX, WA, UT, VA, WI</strong>.</p><p> </p></div>

<p>Afresh is on a mission to reduce food waste and increase access to nutritious food globally by transforming the fresh food supply chain. Our AI-powered solutions optimize the multi-trillion-dollar grocery industry's food ordering, production, and merchandising processes. We built the first platform capable of handling all of Fresh food&rsquo;s complexities.</p>
<p><br />We are relentlessly focused on helping grocers reduce waste, increase profitability, and bring better, fresher food to their communities. Afresh is currently deployed in hundreds of grocery stores across the United States and is on track to reduce 30 million pounds of food waste per year with our existing customers alone. By 2021, we're aiming to reduce food waste by a quarter billion pounds per year.</p>
<p>We are building a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive team that embodies our company&rsquo;s values: proactivity, kindness, candor, and humility. We aspire to continually grow as individuals and as an organization to live these values and realize our mission. We earnestly believe that Afresh represents a one-of-a-kind opportunity to have massive social impact at scale by employing novel technology&mdash;and to have a ton of fun along the way.</p>

Senior Talent Acquisition Partner

<div><p>Afresh, the AI platform for grocery, began by tackling the most complex problem in the industry: fresh, and has evolved into the core AI platform for grocers.</p><p>By leveraging proprietary AI designed for high-volatility environments, we empower partners like Albertsons, Meijer, and Wakefern to drive smarter decisions across their entire enterprise.</p><p>Following record-breaking 70% revenue growth in 2025, we have scaled to 6 enterprise-grade solutions, with solutions live in over 10% of the U.S. grocery market. Our platform now orchestrates billions of decisions from the store floor to the distribution center and prevented over 200 million pounds of food waste last year alone.</p><p>If you're looking for a role where your work directly translates into massive scale and social good, and you want to be part of the team that defines how the world eats, there is no better time to join us.</p></div><h1>Sr. Talent Acquisition Partner</h1><h3><strong>About the Role</strong></h3><p>As the Senior Talent Acquisition Partner at Afresh, you’ll act as a strategic partner to our hiring managers, identifying the technical talent necessary to drive our mission forward.</p><p>We’re looking for a high-impact closer—someone who thrives on sourcing niche technical talent and takes pride in high close rates and aggressive time-to-fill metrics. You leverage the latest AI recruitment tooling to automate recruiting pipelines &amp; are ATS and operationally minded.</p><p>You are a consultative partner who constructive strategizes &amp; pushes back with hiring managers and executives to drive the success of scaling hires. You know that top engineers are skeptical of low-effort outreach, so you lead with high-signal, technically credible communication—not 'rockstar' clichés. If you’re a full-cycle expert who knows how to move the needle on technical headcount while maintaining an elite candidate experience, this could be the perfect role for you!</p><h3><strong>Key Responsibilities:</strong></h3><ul><li>Build relationships and collaborate with business leaders, hiring managers, and HR colleagues to identify hiring needs, refine job descriptions , and develop talent acquisition strategies for openings at all levels.</li><li>Serve as a candid advisor to hiring managers to define roles and ideal profiles—including raising the bar on expectations and pushing back on requirements that are unrealistic or that will unnecessarily constrain the pipeline.</li><li>Recruit for open roles leveraging a full range of sourcing channels including referrals, internal employees, Linkedin Recruiter, and the latest AI recruitment tooling. You engage passive talent where they actually live including looking at GitHub profile reviews, Stack Overflow contributions, niche Slack communities, and Discord servers.</li><li>Plan and execute full-cycle recruiting. Manage the end-to-end recruiting process for technical positions, from sourcing and screening to interviewing and extending and closing offers. Ensure a smooth, efficient, communicative, and positive experience for all candidates.</li><li>Ensure hiring with excellence by conducting discovery calls with candidates for alignment on compensation requirements to ensure successful offer acceptance and ultimate hire.</li><li>Create exceptional candidate and hiring manager experiences by identifying and anticipating needs, following issues to closure, and collaborating with key stakeholders and exceeding expectations.</li><li>Be excited about AI tooling &amp; the impact AI can have in identifying talent and streamlining the recruitment workflow; test new theories &amp; ideas, and try new AI technology.</li><li>Ideal candidate can seamlessly pivot between technical roles (Software Engineering, Data Science, Product) and GTM roles (Sales, Marketing, Account Management).</li><li>Own our ATS (Greenhouse). You will ensure data integrity, optimize workflows, and use the platform to provide transparent reporting to stakeholders.</li><li>Must be analytics driven, building reports for the executive team on pipeline health, time-to-fill, offer acceptance rate, and cost-per-hire.</li><li>Ensure all job postings and hiring practices remain compliant with local and federal labor laws in partnership with HR.</li><li>Deliver Process Excellence. Facilitate interview debriefs, drive decision-making, and maintain a high bar for candidate experience.</li><li>All other duties and projects, as assigned.</li></ul><h3><strong>Who You Are</strong></h3><ul><li>You have 7+ years of experience in full-cycle recruiting, ideally in a high-growth startup environment where you’ve had to be self-sufficient.</li><li>You are “Technically Fluent” ie. you know the difference between Python and JavaScript, understand why React is a library and not a language, and can explain a basic software development lifecycle. You don't write code—but you can hold a credible conversation with the people who do.</li><li>You don’t just wait for applicants. You are a pro at LinkedIn and other sourcing tools and enjoy finding creative ways to reach passive talent.</li><li>You understand how to spot a high-performing Revenue talent and know what it takes to sell a mission-driven product.</li><li>You understand the art of the offer. You can navigate complex compensation conversations and equity explanations with ease.</li><li>You're honest about the pros and cons of joining Afresh—you know that authentic sells close better than hype. And you're genuinely curious about technology, keeping up with new frameworks and industry shifts not because you have to, but because it makes you better at your job.</li><li>You have the ability to work independently, manage multiple roles concurrently, and prioritize effectively.</li><li>You have the proven ability to manage 15+ active, high-touch candidates simultaneously without letting anyone fall through the cracks.</li><li>You are an expert closer with a proven track record of driving high offer-acceptance rates and drastically reducing time-to-fill through expert negotiation and proactive candidate management.</li><li>You're process oriented. Whether it's execution or designing existing process improvements, you thrive in the details.</li><li>Bachelor’s degree required.</li></ul><hr /><p><strong>This position is not eligible for company sponsorship.</strong></p><p>Salary Range in U.S: $122,000 - $183,000</p><p> </p><p> </p><div><div> </div><div><strong>Why You’ll Love Working at Afresh</strong><br />At Afresh, our mission to eliminate food waste starts with investing in our people. We provide a comprehensive support system designed to help you do your best work while maintaining a healthy, balanced life.</div><ul><li><strong>Comprehensive Health &amp; Wellness:</strong> Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family, with the majority of premiums covered by Afresh. We also provide dedicated mental health support and counseling services.</li><li><strong>Invested in Your Future:</strong> Competitive base salary, meaningful equity (U.S. employees), and a 401(k) program with a generous company match.</li><li><strong>Flexible &amp; Modern Workspace:</strong> Whether you work from home or a local office, we support your setup with a home office stipend and "Coworking Wallets" for flexible workspace access.</li><li><strong>Growth-Obsessed Culture:</strong> We believe in continuous learning. Every employee receives an annual professional development budget to master new skills and grow their career at Afresh.</li><li><strong>Holistic Monthly Stipends:</strong> Beyond your paycheck, we provide monthly stipends for "Betterment" (wellness/lifestyle) and telecommunications to ensure you have what you need to thrive.</li><li><strong>Time to Recharge:</strong> Flexible paid time off to take the time you need to recharge.</li></ul><div>*<em>Full-time U.S. employees are eligible for these benefits</em></div><div> </div><p><strong>About Afresh</strong></p><p>Founded in 2017, Afresh is using AI to tackle the #1 solution to curb climate change: reducing food waste. By building AI specifically for the intricacies of grocery—from the fresh perimeter to the center store—we help grocers minimize waste and maximize sales.</p><p>Afresh sits at an incredible intersection of positive social impact, rocket ship financial growth, and cutting-edge technology. Our best-in-class AI research has been published in top journals, including ICML, and our investors include Al Gore’s Just Climate, former Whole Foods Market CEO Walter Robb, and Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors.</p><p>Grocery is the past, present, and future of our food system – the waste we create today will impact our planet for years to come. Join us as we continue to build a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive team that embodies our company’s values of proactivity, kindness, candor, and humility.</p><p><strong>Afresh provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.</strong></p><p><strong>Here at Afresh, many of our employees work remotely provided that they reside in one of the following states: AL, AR, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, KY, MA, MI, MT, MO, NV, NJ, NY, NC, OR, PA, TX, WA, UT, VA, WI</strong>.</p><p> </p></div>

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