AI Interviews, Tenzo AI, and the New Recruiting Department with Jeremy Roberts

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Large enterprises are dragging legacy systems, legal risk, and AI anxiety into every talent conversation, while the next wave of tools is already capable of automating massive chunks of recruiting. In this HR Tech Live conversation, WorkTech host George LaRocque sits down with Jeremy Roberts from Tenzo AI to unpack what happens when AI interviewing is done right, why most teams are still evaluating yesterday’s tech, and how this changes the shape of recruiting departments going forward.

In this episode we speak with Jeremy Roberts, Founding Customer Success Lead at Tenzo AI, about evaluating AI interview platforms, rebuilding workflows around skills and signals instead of résumés, how to get past the “cool demo” to real compliance and transparency, and why he chose Tenzo after vetting the entire AI interview landscape.

Key Takeaways

• Most large companies are stalled by legal risk and legacy systems while AI is already capable of automating much of early-stage recruiting

• AI interviewing shifts evaluation from incomplete résumés to structured skills evidence and every spoken word in context

• The real disruption isn’t the tech, it’s the requirement to tear down and rebuild talent workflows from scratch

• Vendors that win will be the ones who can explain every decision to legal, compliance, and AI governance councils

• High-volume use cases are just the starting point; AI interviewing is already good enough for knowledge workers and senior roles

• Tenzo’s focus on debiasing, transparency, and explainability was the differentiator in Jeremy’s market-wide evaluation

• Founding customer success roles sit at the center of product, sales, and customers, shaping the roadmap in real time

Chapters

00:00 AI, legacy systems, and what could be automated

01:02 Live at HR Tech and intro to Jeremy

02:05 Jeremy’s path from recruiter to AI startup

05:14 Vetting the AI interview market

07:26 How AI interviewing changes workflows

10:45 Why Tenzo stood out

13:37 Compliance, explainability, and safer evaluation

16:12 Where Tenzo sits in the TA stack

18:21 Data, CRM potential, and personalization

21:02 Jeremy’s role as founding customer success lead

23:24 Culture, humility, and building the right way

24:23 Wrap up and HR Tech Pitchfest shout

Guest Info

Jeremy Roberts, Founding Customer Success Lead, Tenzo AI

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyroberts/

Host

George LaRocque, Founder and Principal Analyst, WorkTech and host of The Work Tech Podcast

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgelarocque/

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