# Founding Technical Recruiter

**Company:** [Terminal](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/terminal)
**Location:** Toronto, Canada
**Role:** Recruiting
**Salary:** CA$115k – CA$152k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Ashby, Technical Recruiting, Full-Cycle Recruiting, Sourcing, Candidate Screening, Interview Scorecards, Interview Debriefs, Pipeline Management, Funnel Metrics, Employer Branding, Equity Compensation, AI Automation, Data Platform Engineering
**Posted:** 2026-07-28

> Build and own Terminal’s technical recruiting function, focusing on sourcing and closing senior engineering and data talent while establishing a scalable hiring operating system. The role requires 5+ years of recruiting experience, strong technical assessment skills, and proven success competing for senior candidates.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

### Own technical recruiting end-to-end
- Run full-cycle recruiting across engineering, data, and other technical roles, prioritizing data platform engineering.
- Own sourcing, screening, scheduling, references, offers, and closing.
- Build and maintain a live map of target Toronto engineers.
- Conduct outbound recruiting and write candidate messaging that reflects Terminal's standards.
- Track pipeline health, sourcing quality, hiring velocity, and time to offer acceptance.

### Protect the technical bar and close senior talent
- Calibrate hiring standards with the CTO and technical leads before searches open.
- Hold the bar during debriefs and build consistent interview loops, scorecards, and debrief practices.
- Close senior and staff engineers with competing offers, including early-stage equity discussions.
- Review new hires at 90 days, six months, and twelve months and improve the hiring process based on findings.
- Track bar quality, close rate, and interviewer calibration.

### Build the hiring operating system
- Own hiring metrics and recruiting operations in Ashby.
- Manage interviewer capacity and redistribute panels before workloads become excessive.
- Partner with leadership on headcount sequencing, role design, offer calibration, and hiring versus tooling decisions.
- Support employer branding by communicating Terminal's engineering culture to marketing and operations.
- Establish a weekly hiring review, funnel instrumentation, and an inheritable technical recruiting playbook.

### First 90 days
- Map the Toronto engineering and data talent market.
- Take ownership of active technical searches, prioritizing data platform engineering.
- Establish weekly hiring reviews and baseline funnel metrics.
- Calibrate the technical bar with company leadership.
- Launch the first version of the technical recruiting operating system.

### Six to twelve months
- Deliver the hiring plan while preserving talent density and interviewer capacity.
- Create a repeatable process for sourcing, screening, interview design, debriefs, closing, and onboarding feedback.
- Improve predictability across recruiting funnel metrics.
- Build the foundation for additional recruiting support.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of recruiting experience, including at least two years owning full-cycle recruiting.
- In-house recruiting experience at an early-stage startup.
- Proven success closing senior and staff engineers in competitive markets.
- Experience handling compensation discussions involving early-stage equity.
- Ability to source technically, assess depth in engineering profiles, and hold credible conversations with senior and staff engineers.
- Strong pipeline and funnel management skills.
- Company-building mindset and comfort contributing to hiring strategy.
- Ability to work independently without a coordination team.
- Strong written communication skills.
- Hands-on use of AI across sourcing, screening, and scheduling, with an instinct to automate workflows.

## Nice to have
- Experience as a company's first recruiter.
- Recruiting experience for highly technical products and staff.
- An existing network across Toronto's engineering and data communities.
- Experience working in a high-bar, talent-focused organization.

## Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: $115,000-$152,000 CAD.
- Meaningful equity.
- Brand-new MacBook and computer equipment.
- Health and dental benefits.
- Flexible healthcare spending account.
- Personal spending account for professional development.

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