# Founding Technical Recruiter

**Company:** [Garage](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/garage)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Recruiting
**Salary:** $150k – $220k/yr
**Skills:** Full-Cycle Recruiting, Technical Recruiting, Sourcing, Ashby, talent pipeline management, ai recruiting tools, nyc startup talent market
**Posted:** 2026-07-21

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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