5+ years of full-cycle recruiting in fast-paced startup environments
Demonstrated success in hiring top talent with a proven track record
Ability to work with urgency in a hypergrowth setting
Experience recruiting for technical products, particularly infrastructure or developer-tools
Strong process intuition to balance rigor with efficiency
Ability to thrive in ambiguous situations with high agency
Expert in sourcing and engaging top-tier candidates
Responsibilities
Lead full-cycle hiring for GTM and Ops roles across the organization
Develop outbound sourcing strategies from the ground up
Collaborate with founders to define exceptional talent criteria for each role
Manage the hiring process with a balance of quality and speed
Provide expertise on market trends and talent dynamics to the business
Expand the company's network and employer brand to attract passive candidates
Benefits
Medical, Vision, and Dental insurance
Competitive base pay plus equity
401K matching
Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO)
Annual company offsite events
Early-exercise stock options
12 weeks of fully paid parental leave in the US
Full Job Description
What you'll do
Own full-cycle hiring for every GTM and Ops role at Blacksmith - Account Executives, Solutions Engineers, Marketing, Finance, and the business-side hires that keep the company running
Build outbound sourcing from scratch. We have a limited employer brand, so the pipeline comes from narrow, well-researched headhunting, our own customers, and your network
Partner directly with the founders to define what "exceptional" looks like for each role: we set an extremely high bar for talent and need a hiring process that ensures we meet this bar as we scale
Own the hiring process with urgency - you'll balance exceptional quality with speed. Velocity is key to how we hire
Be the expert advisor in the business - market trends, talent opportunities/challenges, tradeoffs. You should be able to operate as a consultant to the business
Build out our network and brand. Look for ways to engage with passive talent and build out opportunities to convert candidates through longer term, strategic sequences
You're a good fit if you have
5+ years of full-cycle recruiting across GTM & Ops roles within fast paced startup environments
A proven track record of hiring at an exceptional talent bar. The hires you've made have gone on to be highly successful in their roles
Urgency - you have to be comfortable and able to operate with urgency in a truly hypergrowth environment
You've worked with teams that have built highly technical products, and understand the nuances to selling a role in this environment to prospective candidates. Ideally this will have been a similar infrastructure or developer-tools product.
Good process instinct - you know how to not overburden hiring with unnecessary processes, whilst still maintaining the correct standard of rigour
High agency and thrive in ambiguity
Real sourcing craft: you know how to reach the p99 talent
