3-7 years of technical sourcing or recruiting experience, particularly in early-stage startups.
Experience sourcing software engineers across various levels, including senior and staff roles.
Proven ability to build and manage outbound campaigns and candidate pipelines.
Collaborated closely with founders or engineering leaders to align hiring needs with search strategies.
Strong written and verbal communication skills for effective outreach and pitching.
Familiarity with sourcing tools like LinkedIn Recruiter, Gem, and others; mastery of all tools is not necessary.
Responsibilities
Build targeted talent pipelines by partnering with founders and hiring managers.
Run outbound sourcing across multiple channels to engage candidates.
Write personalized outreach messages that resonate with potential candidates.
Operate efficiently to manage a high volume of candidate outreach daily.
Lead initial candidate conversations to explain the company's mission and opportunities.
Maintain an organized talent CRM for tracking candidate engagement and fit.
Experiment with new talent sourcing methods, including cold calling and community partnerships.
Benefits
Full medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
401(k) match to support long-term financial planning.
Access to meals and a stocked NYC office.
Opportunity to contribute to defining a new category in Audit-Ready AI for Finance.
Full Job Description
The Role
As our first in-house sourcing hire, you'll build the talent pipelines that power Hyphenate's next stage of growth as we prepare for our Series A. You'll help us find and engage the engineers who will build Hyphenate, creating a consistent pipeline of exceptional talent and reducing our reliance on external agencies.
Your primary focus will be software engineering hiring, spanning early-career, mid-level, senior, and staff engineers, with additional support for product roles. You'll own the sourcing process from talent research and personalized outreach through initial candidate conversations and handoff to the hiring team.
This is a hands-on role for someone who combines research instincts, excellent communication, and the persistence to turn a promising profile into a meaningful conversation.
What You'll Own
Build targeted talent pipelines. Partner with founders and hiring managers to understand hiring priorities, define candidate personas, and identify people who meet our technical and cultural bar.
Run outbound sourcing across channels. Find and engage candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, sourcing platforms, research, referrals, communities, and cold-email campaigns.
Write outreach that earns a response. Create personalized emails, LinkedIn messages, and follow-up sequences that communicate why Hyphenate and why this opportunity.
Operate with pace and precision. Reach approximately 50-100 newly shortlisted candidates daily across channels and manage 75-100+ daily cold-email sends, including campaign follow-ups, while maintaining thoughtful targeting and message quality.
Bring the opportunity to life. Lead initial conversations, explain our mission and engineering challenges, understand candidates' motivations, and build interest in the team.
Build our talent CRM. Maintain organized, searchable candidate databases with clear records of outreach, engagement, fit, and future hiring potential.
Find new sources of talent. Experiment with cold calling, community partnerships, meetups, and recruiting events in New York.
Improve the sourcing engine. Track response rates, qualified conversations, and pipeline conversion, then use the results and hiring-team feedback to sharpen your approach.
What You Should Have Done Before
3-7 years of technical sourcing or recruiting experience, including hands-on sourcing for early-stage startups.
Sourced software engineers across experience levels, including senior and staff engineers.
Built and managed outbound campaigns, candidate pipelines, and talent CRM workflows.
Worked closely with founders or engineering leaders to translate hiring needs into focused searches.
Developed excellent written and verbal communication skills-you can write compelling outreach and confidently pitch an early-stage company.
Used sourcing and recruiting tools such as LinkedIn Recruiter, Gem, HireVue, SeekOut, Juicebox, and Metaview. Experience across several is valuable; mastery of every tool is not required.
You'll Stand Out If
You've been a founding recruiter or an early recruiting hire at a Series A or Series B startup.
You've helped grow an engineering team at a company scaling within the roughly 20-150 employee range.
You've built sourcing processes and talent databases from scratch.
You've sourced for product roles alongside engineering.
You've successfully reached hard-to-engage candidates through creative channels, events, or cold calling.
What Great Looks Like Here
Quality and consistency. You build a dependable pipeline of candidates who meet our hiring bar.
Ownership. You spot gaps, test ideas, and improve results without waiting for a playbook.
Candidate trust. Your outreach feels considered, and your conversations leave people with a clear understanding of Hyphenate.
Strong judgment. You balance daily activity with the outcomes that matter: qualified conversations, strong candidates, and successful hires.
The Upside
Full medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents, plus 401(k) match.
Meals, a stocked NYC office, and the chance to help define an entirely new category: Audit-Ready AI for Finance.
