Founding Recruiter

Phoebe

$100K — $150K *
Staffing
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of recruitment experience, balancing agency and fast-growth environments.
  • Experience in either technical or GTM sectors is acceptable.
  • Demonstrated ability to actively seek out candidates who are not actively looking for roles.
  • Proven track record in driving external firms and ensuring timely results.
  • A strong sense of ownership and accountability for hiring outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • Take full ownership of the recruitment process for engineering, GTM, and leadership roles.
  • Manage end-to-end searches, starting with engineering within your first month.
  • Develop and implement an ATS, scorecards, and screening filters within 90 days.
  • Create a data-driven hiring pipeline and establish consistent reporting practices.
  • Engage with and manage external recruitment firms to fill key leadership and senior engineering positions.

Benefits

  • Work in a dynamic company that values ownership of hiring strategies.
  • Contribute directly to shaping the future of the organization.
  • Opportunity to build and institutionalize recruitment processes from the ground up.
Full Job Description
You'll take full ownership of recruiting across engineering, GTM, and leadership, treating every open role as a business problem to solve with a direct contribution to what Phoebe becomes.

Read about Phoebe and our hiring philosophy here
What Success Looks Like
  • Within 30 days, own a live search end-to-end, starting with engineering, the spine of our hiring. Source, screen, and drive it to close.
  • Within 90 days, build the machine: ATS, scorecards, screening filters, pipeline reporting, and a weekly operating cadence. Everything the team needs to run hiring on a system instead of in the founder's head.
  • Over the next 6 months, land the hires that matter: the leadership roles and senior engineers. Engage external firms you drive rather than just hire. As the repeatable parts get systematized, your time moves up to the hardest searches.
What We're Looking For
  • 4+ years of experience at a mix of agency and fast-growing, product-driven companies, tilt toward either technical, or GTM is fine
  • Hunters. You find the person who isn't looking and you don't stop until they say yes. Posting a req and praying isn't your style, and you'd never outsource the chase.
  • Operational excellence. You get results out of people who don't report to you. You drive external firms hard, hold them accountable, and make them deliver on your timeline.
  • High agency, low ego. You own the outcome end to end, and no part of the job is beneath you. When unglamorous coordination moves a hire, you just do it.

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