Founding Recruiter

Description

We have 25+ roles to fill in the next two quarters across Engineering, Research, Marketing, Ops, Finance, GTM, and Support. Right now the founders run every search themselves. We want you to take that over and build how the company hires.

This is not an HR role and not an agency-management role. You source, you screen, you close.

Location: SF (hybrid / on-site)\ Compensation: $120K–$150K + meaningful equity\ Type: Full-time

Your first 90 days

Day 30: You own every open search. ATS is live, every role has a scorecard and an interview plan, and the 5 highest-priority roles have active pipelines. Day 60: First 5+ offers signed. Founders spend time on final interviews only. Day 90: Hiring runs on a weekly rhythm with funnel numbers. You've told us what's broken in how we hire and fixed the worst of it.

What you'll own

Full-cycle recruiting for every open role: intake, sourcing, screening, offer, close Outbound sourcing for the hard roles, from ML researchers to a Controller, not just inbound review Turning a founder's vague "we need someone for X" into a clear role, scorecard, and interview plan Offers and closing, including salary and equity conversations, together with the founders Hiring across the US, Europe, and India: full-time, contractors, and interns The ATS, the funnel numbers, and how the company shows up to candidates everywhere

Requirements

• 4–6+ years of full-cycle recruiting, at least part of it in-house at a fast-growing startup
• You've closed both technical and business roles, and you can show the numbers
• You source every week, personally, and you're good at it
• You can run 10+ searches in parallel without dropping candidates
• You can tell a strong candidate from a polished one, and you'll push back on us when a role is badly defined or the bar is slipping
• You can explain startup equity to a candidate clearly and honestly
• Experience hiring ML / speech / LLM researchers
• Consumer tech, DTC, e-commerce, or hardware background
• International hiring (Europe, India), EOR and contractor setups
• You already use AI tools to move faster on sourcing and outreach
• Why this role
• You build the team of a company scaling from hundreds of thousands to millions of customers
• You work directly with the founders and every team lead, with no layers in between
• You define how the company hires. There is no legacy process to inherit
• A clear path to Head of Talent / People as the function grows
• Competitive salary and meaningful equity through the company's stock option plan
• Interview process
• Intro call (15 min): experience, motivation, comp expectations, location
• Recruiting deep dive: your best searches, your process, your funnel numbers
• Practical exercise on a real the company role: intake, sourcing strategy, sample outreach
• Conversations with the hiring managers you'd partner with
• Founders interview
• References and offer
• We move fast. Expect the whole process to take under two weeks.
• About the company
• We are obsessed with quality and speed. We are scaling fast across the US and Europe and building a device experience that can become the category leader.
• Experience: 3+ years
• Visa: US citizen/visa only