The Role:Orchard is entering its most ambitious period of growth yet. The quality and pace of our hiring will determine how quickly we can serve more farmers, and the systems we build now will shape the company for years.
You will be Orchard's first dedicated recruiting and people hire. Reporting directly to our CEO, you will personally recruit critical hires while building a durable talent engine: sourcing, interview design, closing, onboarding, HR systems, benefits, compliance, and culture.
This is a builder role. You will spend roughly 2/3-rds of your time recruiting and 1/3-rd building and running our internal people operations. You should be equally comfortable sourcing an exceptional engineer, improving an onboarding process, handling a benefits question in our HRIS, and preparing Orchard for our next stage of growth.
What You'll Own- Lead full-cycle recruiting for critical technical and operations roles.
- Build repeatable sourcing channels and an exceptional recruiting brand.
- Create and own an exceptional candidate experience.
- Partner with leaders to define roles precisely, calibrate talent bars, move candidates quickly, and close exceptional hires.
- Own the employee lifecycle, including new hire onboarding, HRIS, benefits, leave administration, and day-to-day people operations.
- Maintain practical, compliant employment policies.
- Protect and strengthen Orchard's culture as the company scales.
What We Look For- 3-7+ years of experience recruiting, with real ownership in a fast-growing startup or high-performance environment.
- A track record of personally recruiting and closing exceptional technical talent.
- Experience helping an organization scale from 10's of employees to 100+.
- Strong sourcing instincts and the creativity to reach candidates who are not actively applying.
- Strong operating rigor across recruiting funnels, headcount plans, and people systems.
- Comfort owning all processes around creating a stellar work environment for our team.
- Hands-on experience with HRIS, benefits, onboarding, and other core people operations.
About the Opportunity- Full-time role, five days a week at our San Francisco office.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage with 100% of employee premiums covered.
- The opportunity to build Orchard's Recruiting and People function from the ground up.
- Our team is close-knit and highly driven. You'll work directly with our CEO and every functional leader.
- We move fast, and sometimes this means staying late or working weekends.
- We're deeply motivated by the impact we're making - every system we build and deploy means less food that goes to waste, and more people who are fed.
