About this role
About the Role We are building a founding team member to architect, build, and execute our elite talent acquisition engine. This role is heavily focused on sourcing, closing, and retaining top-tier, high-impact talent across engineering, product, and growth. You will work hand-in-hand with the founders to design hiring pipelines, craft employer branding, and drive aggressive outbound sourcing, while handling day-to-day full-cycle recruiting. What You'll Do
- Build and optimize end-to-end hiring pipelines for core teams (engineering, product, growth) and craft scalable employer branding.
- Drive aggressive outbound sourcing and candidate engagement; identify passive talent, and convert them into high-quality applicants.
- Lead day-to-day full-cycle recruiting: screening, interviewing, coordinating, offers, and closing; own time-to-fill metrics and process improvements.
- Partner closely with founders to align recruiting with company goals, define hiring roadmap, and optimize interview processes.
- Scale the recruiting engine autonomously; identify bottlenecks and implement improvements to achieve rapid growth while maintaining quality. What We're Looking For
- Elite Sourcing & Assessment Expertise: understand top 1% talent, speak engineers' language, assess technical fit, and sell our vision.
- Extreme Grit and Hustle: thrives in high-intensity startup environment, moves fast.
- Mastery of Candidate Psychology & Closing: understands motivators, structures offers, handles objections, closes candidates.
- Proven Talent-Building Chops: can identify passive candidates, design high-converting outreach, build a team without heavy reliance on inbound applications.
- True Ownership: self-starter who identifies bottlenecks and executes autonomously, fills critical gaps.
- Passion for Team Scale: obsessed with pipeline efficiency, close rates, time-to-hire metrics, and scaling with quality. Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive pay & equity
- Flexible PTO & family leave
- Full medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Design your own perks as a core member of the founding team
- Salary bands: IC1: 130k - 150k base salary + equity; IC2: 160k - 180k base salary + equity; IC3: 200k - 300k base salary + equity