The roleYou will be our first dedicated talent hire. You own recruiting end to end: sourcing, pipeline, process, closing, and candidate experience. Today that means being a full-cycle recruiter with your hands on every search. As we grow, this role grows into our recruiting leader, building and managing the talent function. Fun Fact: we've only had 2 offers declined in the history of Hike, over 75+ hires.
We hire across very different worlds: engineers and designers in SF, sales and clinical roles nationally, and manufacturing talent in Peoria. You will learn to recruit for all of them.
What you will do- Run full-cycle recruiting for open roles across engineering, GTM, clinical, and operations
- Source relentlessly. The best people we hire will not apply through a job board.
- Partner directly with the CEO and hiring managers to scope roles, calibrate bars, and close candidates
- Own the ATS (Ashby), pipeline metrics, and interview process quality
- Build the machinery: structured interviews, scorecards, referral programs, employer brand
- Tell the Hike story well enough that a staff engineer at a hot AI company takes your call
- Manage agencies and contract recruiters when searches call for them
- Over time, hire and lead recruiters as headcount demands grow
What we need- 4+ years of full-cycle recruiting, with meaningful time in-house at a startup
- You have closed hard searches yourself: technical roles, senior leaders, or competitive markets
- Sourcing is a strength, not a chore. You can show pipelines you built from cold outreach.
- Strong writer and communicator. Candidates should leave every touchpoint more excited than they arrived.
- Organized enough to run 6+ searches at once without dropping candidates
- Judgment on people. You will be the first filter on everyone who joins this company.
- Ambition to lead. This role becomes Head of Talent as we scale.
- In person in San Francisco
Why this role- First talent hire at a company that just raised $22M and is in full growth mode
- Direct partnership with the founders on every key hire
- A genuinely differentiated story to sell: AI, healthcare, and a 65,000 sq ft factory that 3D prints medical devices
- Clear path from Talent Lead to Head of Talent
- Competitive comp, meaningful equity, full benefits
