Expo Recruiter

Expo is building the mobile AI infrastructure teams use to create, ship, and operate great apps.

We are a remote team of builders. That includes Engineering, Product, GTM, and G&A. Everyone is expected to understand our product, create things, experiment, use AI thoughtfully, and find practical ways to move the company forward.

We are intentionally building a small, high-output company. That means hiring is one of the highest-leverage things we do. We would rather hire fewer exceptional people than build large teams, and every new person should expand what Expo is capable of accomplishing.

We are looking for a hands-on Recruiter to help us build that team.

Recruiting is the core of the role. You will work directly with leaders across Engineering, GTM, Product, and G&A to define what exceptional looks like, find people who are difficult to find, build a hiring process that reveals real ability, and close the people who can raise the level of Expo.

You will also help improve onboarding and the lightweight people systems required to support a small, exceptional company as we grow.

• Fewer, better hires. Talent density matters more than headcount. Every hire should meaningfully increase what the company can accomplish.
• Everyone is a builder. Building is not limited to Engineering. People across Expo create tools, automate work, use the product, run experiments, and solve problems directly.
• Deep in one area, useful across many. We value people with real depth in their craft who can also contribute outside a narrow job description when the company needs them.
• Own the outcome. There are no perfect swim lanes. Understand the problem, make good decisions, bring in the right people, and see the work through.
• Keep systems simple. We use technology, automation, and AI to increase what a small team can accomplish. Process should make good work easier, not create bureaucracy.
• Create leverage. The best work makes more than one person better. We look for tools, systems, decisions, and abstractions that make the entire company faster.
• Taste matters. As AI makes it easier to produce more, judgment becomes more valuable. We care deeply about craft, quality, clear thinking, and knowing what great looks like.
• Stay close to developers. We build for developers and the broader mobile community. Everyone at Expo should care about the people using our products and understand the problems they are trying to solve.
• Recruit exceptional people across Engineering, Product, GTM, and G&A.
• Personally source, recruit, assess, and close candidates for our most important roles.
• Build a proactive sourcing engine that reaches people who are not actively looking.
• Partner with leaders to understand the business need behind each hire and define what exceptional performance looks like.
• Turn our hiring philosophy into useful scorecards, interview formats, competencies, and disqualifiers.
• Improve interviews so they reveal authentic ability, judgment, ownership, curiosity, and working style.
• Use work reviews, live demonstrations, technical discussions, and "show me" prompts where they reveal more than traditional interview questions.
• Build long-term relationships with exceptional people before we have an open role.
• Build onboarding that helps new hires understand Expo, our products, customers, culture, and expectations quickly.
• Partner with managers on clear ramp plans and expectations for new hires.
• Help create lightweight systems for feedback, performance, compensation, and career development.
• Coach leaders on hiring, team design, role clarity, and difficult performance decisions.
• Partner with Finance and leadership on thoughtful headcount planning and our revenue-per-employee goals.
• Identify unnecessary organizational complexity and opportunities to…