Recruiter (Path to Head of Talent)

Role Overview

Recruiter (Path to Head of Talent) — Fully remote (United States)

The startup is bringing recruiting in-house for the first time and needs someone to own recruiting end-to-end and grow into Head of Talent within 1–2 years.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate recruiting processes across multiple open roles
• Manage relationships with external recruiting partners
• Source and identify strong candidates and map where top talent pools live for each role
• Build candidate profiles and define clear evaluation criteria
• Partner with founders to iterate on sourcing strategy and improve response times
• Move hiring from intuition-based to a more systematic, repeatable, scalable approach as the team grows

Requirements

• 1–4 years of experience in recruiting/talent or a closely related function
• Experience with startups, venture capital, or quant-style talent environments
• Strong desire to specialize in talent and own it long-term (ultimately Head of Talent)
• Highly organized and comfortable owning coordination across many moving parts
• Fast-moving, founder-aligned ability to close candidates quickly

Bonus

• Experience recruiting for early-stage startups or at a venture firm