Founding Recruiter

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Founding Recruiter based in the United States.

As a Founding Recruiter, you will take ownership of full-cycle recruiting across technical and non-technical roles in a fast-moving, early-stage technology environment.
You will play a critical role in building high-performing teams across the United States, Europe, and Latin America.
The position combines hands-on sourcing, strategic partnership with hiring managers, candidate assessment, and offer closing.
You will work closely with leadership to define hiring needs, establish strong talent pipelines, and maintain a high hiring bar.
The role also offers the opportunity to shape recruiting processes, tools, and practices from the ground up as the organization scales.
Success requires excellent judgment, speed, independence, and a strong commitment to candidate experience.
This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced recruiter who thrives in ambiguity and wants meaningful ownership over global talent acquisition.

Accountabilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting processes from role kickoff and sourcing through interviews, offers, and closing.
• Partner closely with hiring managers to define role requirements, success profiles, hiring plans, and candidate evaluation criteria.
• Lead structured, high-signal interview processes that consistently uphold a strong talent bar.
• Proactively source senior engineers and technical talent across Europe and Latin America.
• Source Customer Success, Go-to-Market, and Product talent across the United States.
• Build and maintain high-quality candidate pipelines through outbound sourcing, referrals, networking, and market intelligence.
• Identify and assess candidates for technical, behavioral, and cultural fit in collaboration with hiring managers.
• Recruit for international positions while adapting sourcing and hiring strategies to different markets.
• Partner with People and Operations teams to support compliant and scalable hiring practices across regions.
• Provide insight into talent availability, compensation expectations, market conditions, and regional hiring dynamics.
• Deliver a thoughtful, respectful, efficient, and highly responsive candidate experience across time zones.
• Represent organizational values, standards, and employer brand consistently throughout the recruiting process.
• Improve recruiting workflows, documentation, processes, and tooling as the organization grows.
• Introduce structure and scalable practices where they add value without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
• Help establish and continuously raise company-wide standards for recruiting and hiring quality.
• Operate with a high degree of autonomy while partnering effectively with founders, leadership, and hiring teams.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a technical recruiter with ownership of full-cycle hiring.
• Demonstrated experience hiring founding or early engineering teams within an early-stage startup environment.
• Successful experience recruiting talent across the United States, Europe, and Latin America.
• Previous experience working with an early-stage U.S.-based technology startup or scaleup.
• Strong proactive sourcing skills and confidence engaging senior and passive candidates.
• Experience recruiting highly selective or high-performance technical talent is a strong advantage.
• Experience partnering directly with founders or senior leadership is preferred.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence hiring decisions effectively.
• Excellent candidate assessment and interviewing judgment.
• Ability to manage multiple searches while maintaining speed, quality, and attention to detail.
• Comfortable working independently in a fractional or contract capacity.
• Highly self-directed, organized, resourceful, and accountable.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and creating practical recruiting processes as needs emerge.
• Strong understanding of international talent markets and hiring dynamics.
• Ability to work effectively across multiple time zones and distributed teams.

Benefits

• Fully remote position based in the United States.
• Flexible, fractional setup built around high trust and high expectations.
• Significant ownership over technical and broader talent acquisition.
• Direct partnership with founders, leadership, and hiring managers.
• Opportunity to shape global recruiting strategy and infrastructure from the ground up.
• Exposure to hiring across the United States, Europe, and Latin America.
• Competitive compensation based on market conditions, experience, skills, and location.
• Wide compensation ranges designed to accommodate both U.S. and international market differences.
• High-impact role within an early-stage technology environment.
• Opportunity to build scalable recruiting practices while maintaining significant autonomy.

How Jobgether works:

We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.

We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!

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