Founding Recruiter & People Ops Associate
$110,000–$145,000 year
On-siteSan Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Own full-cycle recruiting across engineering, sales, and business roles from sourcing through offer acceptance. Build recruiting infrastructure, hiring playbooks, interview processes, and operations from scratch while partnering directly with the CEO on strategy and organizational growth. Manage candidate pipelines, interview coordination, scheduling, and closing; design onboarding experiences; and support benefits administration, payroll, and employee lifecycle processes. Establish foundational People policies including onboarding, offboarding, and parental leave. Help establish company culture through internal programs and events. Scale recruiting and people operations as the company grows from 15 to 30+ employees. Work on-site five days a week in San Francisco.
Required Qualifications
- 2–4 years of experience in recruiting, People Operations, HR, or Talent Acquisition
- Experience working at an early-stage startup (sub-50 employees preferred)
- Full-cycle recruiting experience across technical and business roles
- Experience building recruiting processes or operational workflows from scratch
- Exposure to People Operations including onboarding, benefits, compliance, payroll, or employee lifecycle management
- Experience partnering closely with founders or startup leadership preferred
- Strong startup ownership mentality with demonstrated operational excellence
- Experience managing multiple concurrent hiring processes
- Comfortable operating in highly ambiguous, fast-moving startup environments
- Strong experience using ATS platforms such as Ashby, Greenhouse, Lever, or similar
- Experience using LinkedIn Recruiter and modern sourcing tools
- Strong understanding of recruiting operations and hiring workflows
- Experience building recruiting dashboards, documentation, and hiring processes preferred
- Familiarity with HR systems and people operations tools
- Strong project management and organizational skills
- Ability to build scalable recruiting processes while maintaining an exceptional candidate experience
- Comfortable managing recruiting, HR operations, and administrative responsibilities simultaneously
- Bachelor's degree preferred
Desired Qualifications
- Experience partnering closely with founders or startup leadership preferred
- Experience building recruiting dashboards, documentation, and hiring processes preferred
- Experience working at an early-stage startup (sub-50 employees preferred)
- Strong recruiting or People Operations background with demonstrated startup success
- Exceptional candidates with outstanding startup recruiting experience considered
- Outstanding organization and attention to detail
- High ownership mentality
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Strong relationship-building skills
- Comfortable operating with ambiguity
- Founder mentality and bias toward action
- Strong operational execution
- Process-oriented problem solver
- Adaptable and resourceful
- Passion for building teams and company culture
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