ASG Senior Associate, Technical Remote; U.S.) or Walnut Creek, California

ASG Senior Associate, Technical Recruiting

Remote (U.S.) or Walnut Creek, California

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

ASG believes the future belongs to AI-native companies. We rapidly transform how teams operate, how products are built, and how go-to-market engines grow. We bring deep technical and operational expertise to a portfolio of 65+ software companies acquired since 2016 across 15 software verticals, from behavioral health to transportation to childcare. We are backed by Alpine Investors and operated by world-class People First leaders.

Founders of leading SaaS companies continue to trust ASG to grow their businesses and build even stronger legacies for the future. To learn more, visit

JOB DESCRIPTION

ASG is seeking a Senior Associate, Technical Recruiting to be the primary recruiting partner for our AI transformation initiatives. This is a high-impact role responsible for identifying, assessing, and hiring the technical talent that will help transform our portfolio into AI-native software platforms. You'll lead full-cycle recruiting across AI/ML, AI native software engineering, platform, infrastructure, and security roles while building the recruiting capabilities, partnerships, and talent pipelines that support ASG's long-term technology strategy.

You'll partner closely with ASG's Head of Talent, ASG's CTO, our Talent Intelligence function, and engineering leaders across the portfolio to design hiring strategies, identify, and engage exceptional technical talent, and deliver hiring outcomes that accelerate product and engineering execution. This role reports directly to ASG's Head of Talent.

You’re Excited About This Opportunity Because You Will:

• Lead full-cycle recruiting across AI/ML, AI native software engineering, platform, infrastructure, and security roles.
• Build proactive pipelines for recurring technical roles and emerging skill sets critical to ASG's AI transformation.
• Partner with ASG's CTO and engineering leaders to define hiring strategies, calibrate candidate profiles, and deliver exceptional hiring outcomes.
• Assess technical talent with a high degree of rigor, distinguishing exceptional AI-native builders from candidates with surface-level experience.
• Conduct technical talent research and intelligence, including market mapping, compensation benchmarking, and competitive hiring analysis.
• Develop technical interview frameworks, scorecards, and recruiting playbooks that improve hiring quality and consistency.
• Manage relationships with specialized technical recruiting partners and search firms when appropriate.
• Partner directly with recruiters, portfolio leaders, and executives to align technical hiring strategies with ASG's long-term growth.

We’re Excited About You Because You Have:

• 7+ years of experience recruiting technical talent in high-growth SaaS, technology, or VC/ PE-backed environments.
• Proven success hiring software engineering, AI/ML, platform, infrastructure, or security talent at the IC and manager level.
• Strong technical fluency and the ability to credibly assess engineering talent across modern technologies and AI-native skill sets.
• Experience partnering with engineering leaders to develop hiring strategies, influence hiring decisions, and deliver exceptional candidate experiences.
• Strong understanding of technical talent markets, sourcing strategies, compensation trends, and competitive hiring practices.
• A track record of building proactive talent pipelines, scalable recruiting processes, and trusted stakeholder relationships.
• A proactive, solution-oriented mindset — “I’ll figure it out.”
• Alignment with ASG values: character, persistence, intellectual honesty, balanced lives, passion, continuous improvement.
• Comfortable using AI tools to improve research, drafting, and workflow…