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GarageGarageNew York, NY

Founding Technical Recruiter

Founding Technical Recruiter to build and scale engineering, product, design, and data science teams at a fast-growing YC-backed marketplace for essential industry assets. Own full-cycle technical hiring, targeted sourcing, and recruiting processes in NYC.

150k – 220k/yr
On-siteRecruiting

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Own full-cycle hiring across engineering, product, design, and data science, partnering with founders to attract and close exceptional technical talent.
  • Build and execute targeted sourcing strategies using outbound, referrals, communities, and technical communities to fill high-priority roles quickly.
  • Run structured, high-quality recruiting processes, from screening through offer, while delivering an exceptional candidate experience.
  • Track pipeline health in Ashby and build scalable recruiting systems and playbooks.
  • Help grow out our recruiting team as the company grows.

Requirements

  • Full-cycle experience in hiring technical talent for software engineering, design, product development, and data science.
  • Strong network with existing knowledge of the NYC startup talent market.
  • Ability to close talent with a strong eye for culture fit.
  • Passion for building high-performance teams in a fast-paced, innovative environment.
  • Experience using Ashby, Juicebox, Metaview, Gem, Clay, ChatGPT, Claude, or other modern recruiting and AI tools.
  • Strong organization in an ATS like Ashby.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Treats recruiting as an ownership role and cares deeply about quality of hire.
  • Knows how to engage technical talent and can make Garage stand out through compelling outreach.
  • Enjoys building processes where it helps, but prefers practical systems over heavy recruiting bureaucracy.
  • Excited by Garage’s stage: small team, high trust, high ownership, and a lot of foundational hiring still ahead.

Compensation and Benefits

  • Competitive salary and stock options
  • Health, dental and vision insurance (100% covered)
  • Unlimited paid time off every year (in addition to company observed holidays)
  • Daily lunch and dinner
  • $100 monthly wellness stipend
  • 401(k) with employer match
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits
  • Bi-annual team offsite
  • Relocation assistance

Skills

Full-Cycle RecruitingTechnical RecruitingSourcingAshbytalent pipeline managementai recruiting toolsnyc startup talent market

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