Founding Recruiter
Full-time
Pure
Company Description Pure Interactive (Pure) is a real-money gaming platform and social network built around authentic players, meaningful connections, and community-driven play. The platform operates with no rake, meaning Pure never takes a cut of the pot or a share of prize pools, allowing players to fully benefit from their participation. Every player is a real, verified person, fostering trust, safety, and genuine interactions rather than purely transactional competition. Pure is backed by leading investors including LeftLane Capital, Drive by DraftKings, Tusk Ventures, Hidden Capital, MaC Venture Capital, Ludlow Ventures, Z Fellows, and Nomo Ventures, offering strong support for long-term growth and innovation.
Role Description As the Founding Recruiter at Pure, you will build and execute the hiring strategy across key functions, partnering closely with founders and leadership to define role requirements and ideal candidate profiles. This full-time, on-site role in New York, NY involves managing the entire recruitment lifecycle, including sourcing, outreach, screening, interviewing, and closing candidates for both technical and non-technical roles. You will develop talent pipelines through platforms, communities, events, and referrals, while maintaining a strong employer brand and candidate experience. Day-to-day, you will organize interview processes, coach hiring managers on best practices, track recruiting metrics, and refine processes and tools to support rapid, high-quality hiring in a startup environment. As a founding member of the team, you will also contribute to people operations fundamentals, such as onboarding approaches and early culture-building initiatives.
Qualifications
- Experience in full-cycle recruiting, including sourcing, screening, interviewing, and closing for multiple role types (e.g., product, engineering, operations).
- Skills in candidate sourcing and networking, using online platforms, communities, events, referrals, and creative outreach strategies.
- Strong communication, relationship-building, and stakeholder management skills to collaborate effectively with founders and hiring managers.
- Ability to design and optimize recruiting processes, interview frameworks, and evaluation criteria in a fast-moving startup environment.
- Comfort with data and tools, including applicant tracking systems, recruiting CRMs, and basic reporting on pipeline and hiring metrics.
- Prior experience recruiting in tech, gaming, consumer internet, or high-growth startups is highly beneficial.
- Demonstrated commitment to inclusive, equitable hiring practices and creating a positive candidate experience.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in talent acquisition, human resources, or a related field.
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