The way companies innovate is broken. The systems built to create and protect ideas can’t keep up with the pace of change. Today, 90% of S&P 500 company value is intangible (e.g., IP) — yet R&D and IP teams spend half their time buried in manual work, sifting through patents and paperwork instead of pushing the frontier forward. The tools of creating and protecting are stuck in the past. We’re here to fix that.

Ankar is building the AI Platform for the Trillion Dollar Innovation Economy — a suite of tools that helps inventors explore, create, and protect ideas. We’re removing the friction from the invention process, starting with IP protection and expanding toward creation and exploration.

We’re already seeing this vision come to life:

• Achieved $1M+ ARR, with 75% of this coming in the last 5 months
• Loved by F500 companies & top law firms, with 60% of new business from word of mouth
• Assembled a world-class team from Palantir, Amazon, and BCG to tackle the next frontier of invention creation and expanding into a $1T+ market.
• Raised £3m from Index Ventures, Founder of Hugging Face, CEO of Datadog, and product leaders from DeepMind and OpenAI.

We’re now expanding the team and looking for builders who want to own ambitious projects autonomously, solve impactful & complex problems, and do their best work at Ankar.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll join as a high-impact individual contributor owning our recruiting strategy and execution, with a clear path to grow into our first Talent leader as we built our in-house talent engine. In this role, you will help us build one of the highest talent density teams in Europe. In particular, you will:

• Design and execute end-to-end talent acquisition strategies across multiple functions. You are responsible for building our technical and GTM hiring pipeline.
• Partner with hiring managers to define role requirements, hiring plans, and success profiles; build world-class candidate pipelines
• Own our employer brand and deliver an exceptional candidate experience at every touchpoint
• Implement scalable recruiting processes, tools, and systems that enable us to hire faster and smarter
• Leverage data and analytics to drive hiring decisions, measure results, and improve performance over time