About the RoleAs a Recruiter at January, you run full-cycle searches across engineering, product, operations, and business. You own them end-to-end and sharpen the instinct to read good candidates across a range of roles.
We treat recruiting as a science, not an art. You'll run structured searches, learn to read what a candidate actually wants and sell to it, and bring the same curiosity to making our process better. You'll get the coaching to grow into a more strategic partner over time.
Your Impact- Run full-cycle searches. Own 4-6 concurrent searches from first outreach to offer close. Keep pipelines moving and hiring managers informed.
- Source and identify candidates. Build pipelines through proactive sourcing: LinkedIn, boolean, referrals. Read past the credential, and tell strong from merely good.
- Contribute to recruiting operations. Keep your ATS data clean. Follow the playbooks and flag breakdowns early. Surface what you notice about pipeline health to the team.
- Partner with hiring managers. Run structured kickoffs, set expectations on process and timeline, keep hiring managers engaged. Learn to coach them toward better evaluation.
- Hold a high bar. Evaluate rigorously and escalate concerns early. When you're unsure a candidate clears the bar, ask. Quality beats speed.
What You Bring to the Table- Curiosity as your core instrument. You ask the fewest, sharpest questions to understand what a candidate actually wants. Then sell to that, not to a script. And you want to know why the process works, not just that it does.
- A growing eye for talent. You're learning to read past the credential, and you're curious about what makes a good candidate good.
- Quality over speed. You'd rather escalate a doubt than wave a borderline candidate through.
- Proactive sourcing. You build pipelines. You don't just work the inbound ones.
- Follow-through across many searches. You run several at once without letting candidates or hiring managers go dark.
- Comfort in ambiguity. You move in a fast environment without needing every step defined first.
- 2-4 years of full-cycle recruiting in a startup, tech company, or staffing/agency environment. Technical recruiting exposure is a plus, not a requirement.
We Encourage You to Apply If You Value- Collaborative Ownership beats Fiefdoms. You step into gaps without being asked. You fix issues. You seek to bring in the right people.
- Speed beats perfection. You make decisions with incomplete information, iterate quickly, and course-correct based on what you learn. Fast loops beat slow ones.
- Candor beats comfort. You give direct feedback because you care about people's growth. You'd rather hear a hard truth early than a polite sidestep that wastes time.
- Inputs beat outcomes. You evaluate decisions by the thinking behind them, not just results. Good process increases the odds; bad outcomes don't always mean bad decisions.
- Why beats what. You diagnose before prescribing. You're more interested in root causes than symptoms, and you share context so others can make good decisions without you.
- Writing beats meetings. You structure your thinking on paper. You know that clarity scales and that a well-written doc often accomplishes more than an hour-long meeting.
We are currently hiring for this position in our New York office. 
