Founding Recruiter
Founding talent partner responsible for building and owning all recruiting at a fast-growing AI agents startup. Source, screen, close engineering, GTM and leadership roles while building scalable recruiting systems, processes and external partnerships from scratch.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own recruiting end-to-end across engineering, GTM, and leadership roles, treating every open role as a business problem.
- Within 30 days: Own a live search end-to-end (starting with engineering), including sourcing, screening, and driving to close.
- Within 90 days: Build the recruiting machine with ATS, scorecards, screening filters, pipeline reporting, and weekly operating cadence.
- Over the next 6 months: Land key leadership roles and senior engineers; engage and drive external recruiting firms.
- Systematize repeatable parts of hiring so focus shifts to the hardest searches.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience at a mix of agency and fast-growing, product-driven companies (tilt toward technical or GTM recruiting is fine).
- Hunter mindset: proactively source passive candidates and persist until they say yes.
- Operational excellence: drive results from people who don't report to you, hold external firms accountable to timelines.
- High agency, low ego: own outcomes end-to-end; willing to handle unglamorous coordination tasks.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience building recruiting infrastructure from scratch.
- Background in technical recruiting for engineering roles or GTM recruiting.
Skills
Recruiting, Sourcing, ATS, Talent Acquisition, Pipeline Reporting, Technical Recruiting, Gtm Recruiting
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