Leah Thornton

About Leah Thornton

I’m a Technical Recruiting Leader with 10 + years scaling global, remote-first engineering and product teams for high-growth tech and AI organizations. I specialize in full-cycle technical recruiting, building scalable processes, and partnering with leadership to deliver top talent for next-generation SaaS, LLM, and data-driven initiatives. Passionate about the craft of recruiting, I focus on creating efficient, human-centered systems that improve time-to-hire, elevate candidate experience, and help teams grow with intention and impact.Currently leading full-cycle technical recruiting for global AI, LLM, engineering, product, and operations teams across the U.S, India, Brazil, Colombia, and Costa Rica.I manage a distributed team of recruiters focused on scaling high-impact talent for frontier-AI initiatives and emerging-tech programs.Highlights include:Launched Project 100, hiring 56 senior leaders (EM → VP) in four months and reducing cost-to-hire by 20 % through strategic sourcing, market mapping, and negotiation frameworks.Built company-wide interview frameworks, scoring rubrics, and training, improving interview-to-hire conversion +15 % and standardizing quality metrics.Partner closely with engineering, AI research, and product leadership to define hiring roadmaps and talent strategies for next-generation LLM and superintelligence projects.Created and maintained candidate communication playbooks that increased outreach response rates by 35 %.Guide 7 recruiters and 2 cross-functional pods, cultivating a data-driven, globally aligned recruiting culture that supports Turing’s mission to connect top technical talent with world-changing AI innovation.

Experience

1. Recruiting Manager

   Turing

   Jun 2022 — Present