Founding Technical Recruiter

Location: Hybrid in San Francisco or New York City, United States

Salary: $160,000–$180,000 per year plus equity

Company

hirify.global is an AI recruiting marketplace connecting companies with specialized recruiters and AI agents to make hiring faster, more reliable, and scalable.

What you will do

• Own full-cycle recruiting for engineering, product, and design roles from kickoff through close.
• Source proactively and build pipelines for difficult technical positions.
• Partner with engineering and product hiring managers to define technical requirements, team dynamics, and hiring criteria.
• Improve interview processes, scorecards, and the candidate experience for technical hires.
• Build repeatable sourcing playbooks, calibration frameworks, and pipeline tracking.
• Identify recruiting tools, sourcing channels, and workflow improvements that increase quality and efficiency.

Requirements

• 3–5+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience.
• Proven success closing strong engineering candidates in competitive markets.
• Deep proactive sourcing experience and the ability to engage non-obvious talent.
• Strong technical literacy, including the ability to discuss technology stacks, system design, and engineering culture.
• High ownership and comfort working without an established playbook.
• Builder mindset with the ability to create recruiting processes and structure.

Nice to have

• In-house recruiting experience at a high-growth startup.
• Familiarity with the recruiting industry or marketplace businesses.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to build recruiting infrastructure during a pivotal stage of company growth.
• Recruiters are treated as entrepreneurs rather than vendors.
• Work in an AI-powered recruiting marketplace alongside specialized recruiters and modern AI tools.
• Equity offered as part of the compensation package.