Founding Recruiter

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take charge of the complete recruiting process for both technical and non-technical positions, starting from role definition to the acceptance of offers.

• Actively seek out and engage outstanding candidates.

• Conduct recruitment across various sectors including engineering, product, revenue, customer/farm success, lab/scientific, and operations.

• Facilitate searches for roles ranging from individual contributors to senior leadership.

• Collaborate with founders and hiring managers to clarify role scope, level, requirements, and success profiles.

• Develop innovative sourcing strategies to attract hard-to-find and specialized talent.

• Identify candidates from related industries whose skills can address Feanix's challenges.

• Convert complex role descriptions into engaging narratives for candidates.

• Establish and maintain talent pipelines for both immediate and future hiring needs.

• Manage candidate engagement and experience throughout the offer and closing stages.

• Provide leadership with insights on talent markets, compensation, candidate availability, and hiring strategies.

• Design structured interview processes, scorecards, and evaluation criteria.

• Oversee recruiting operations to ensure searches progress efficiently.

• Monitor pipeline health, conversion rates, sourcing effectiveness, time-to-hire, and other relevant recruiting metrics.

• Enhance recruiting systems and processes as the organization scales.

• Contribute to building Feanix's employer brand and convey its story to potential candidates.

• Collaborate closely with leadership to shape organizational structure and develop a scalable recruiting function.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 4 years of full-cycle recruiting experience.

• Significant in-house recruiting experience is preferred.

• Proven experience in recruiting within an early-stage startup setting, ideally from Seed to Series A.

• Ability to recruit across various functions.

• Strong background in recruiting software engineers and other highly technical talent.

• Demonstrated success in proactively sourcing and engaging high-quality passive candidates.

• Experience in recruiting senior individual contributors, managers, and functional leaders.

• Capacity to swiftly comprehend unfamiliar, complex, or highly specialized roles.

• Strong judgment regarding candidate quality and the ability to identify genuine fit.

• Capability to translate ambiguous hiring needs into clear candidate profiles and actionable searches.

• Comfortable challenging assumptions and advising hiring managers on requirements, compensation, and search strategy.

• Exceptional communication skills for candidate relations, relationship building, and closing.

• Highly organized with a keen attention to detail and ability to follow through.

• Proficient in managing multiple searches with varying candidate profiles and priorities.

• Effective in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities.

• Applicants must possess authorization to work in the United States.

• Unable to provide visa sponsorship or transfers.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible, remote-friendly work environment.

• Medical coverage.

• Dental coverage.

• Vision coverage.

• Retirement savings support via CalSavers for California-based employees.

• 401(k) plan.

• Flexible paid time off.

• Paid parental leave, including up to four weeks of paid leave and/or supplemental pay coordination with applicable state benefits.

• Equity options.

• Pet insurance.

• Reasonable accommodations throughout the application and interview process.