# Founding Recruiter

**Company:** [Krea](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/krea)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Recruiting
**Skills:** AI/ML, Full-Cycle Recruiting, Sourcing, Technical Evaluation, Pipelines, Onboarding, People Ops, Immigration, Visa Management, Employer Branding
**Posted:** 2025-11-18

> Founding recruiter builds talent function from scratch, owns full-cycle recruiting across engineering/AI/product/GTM, handles people ops, onboarding, immigration/visas, and employer brand for fast-growing AI creative tools company.

## Job Description

## What you’ll do

### Build the function
- Design and own Krea's approach to talent — philosophy, process, tooling, and the lightweight systems that make it scale without adding bureaucracy.
- Build pipelines across every function (engineers, researchers, product, design, GTM, ops, creatives).
- Create a candidate experience that reflects who we are: fast and thoughtful.

### Find the right people
- Source across the obvious and non-obvious: industry networks, academia, open source, communities, personal projects, referrals, events.
- Go deep on candidates. Read the repos. Read the papers. Watch the demos. Understand what someone has actually built before you decide if they're worth pursuing.
- Build and maintain a strong network in AI/ML and engineering — or know how to build one quickly if you're newer to the space.

### Own the process end to end
- Run full-cycle recruiting across all functions: sourcing, screening, scheduling, closing.
- Move fast and follow through. Stay informed on how the market is moving — where strong people are coming from, what candidates care about, how the competitive landscape is shifting.

### People ops and the full employee experience
- Own onboarding: make sure every new hire's first weeks are well-structured, welcoming, and set them up for success quickly.
- Handle the operational side of the employee lifecycle - offer letters, employment agreements, and the day-to-day HR processes that a growing team needs.
- Be a trusted resource for the team on anything people-related: compensation questions, role clarity, team dynamics, career development.
- Work with leadership on culture as the team scales — what we want to preserve and what needs to evolve.

### Immigration and visas
- Own immigration end to end.
- Manage active visa cases (H-1B, O-1, E-3, TN, STEM OPT extensions) in partnership with outside counsel: timelines, filings, status tracking, employee communication.

### Represent Krea externally
- Shape how the outside world understands who we are through job descriptions, events, and the overall candidate experience.
- Contribute to employer brand as we grow — what Krea stands for as a place to work and why exceptional people should want to be here.

## What we're looking for
- Builder mentality. You're comfortable starting from zero. You don't need a playbook handed to you. You'd rather design the right process than inherit someone else's.
- Breadth. You're not a specialist. You can hire across product, infra, AI research, GTM, ops, and creative roles — and support the people in those roles once they're here.
- Technical depth. Our team is deeply engineering-focused. You need to be able to evaluate technical work directly at the top of the funnel. An engineering background is the most natural path.
- A track record of closing strong people.
- Good judgment about people. Technical screens are part of it, but you also have strong instincts about motivation, culture, and fit.

## What we offer
- Visa support (STEM OPT, OPT, H-1B, O-1, E-3).
- A chance to work closely with a world-class engineering and research team.
- Real ownership over how we hire and how we grow.
- Competitive compensation (75th percentile of market) with meaningful equity.

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