Recruiter, Talent Manager

About Stainless

Stainless is a fast-growing tech startup building the future of APIs. Our customers include industry leaders like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cloudflare.

We have raised over $35 million from a16z, Sequoia, and founders/C-levels from Stripe, Datadog, Segment, Linear, and more.

We are headquartered in NYC, just west of SoHo, and are a team of 40 strong expecting to double in the next ~6 to 9 months.

We're building something special at Stainless and we need a Recruiter who gets excited about the early-stage chaos of scaling a team from the ground up. You'll be a core part of our small but mighty talent team, partnering directly with leadership to shape how we find, attract, and bring on exceptional people.

This isn't a "pipeline is full, just screen and schedule" kind of job — we're still figuring things out. You'll help us evolve our hiring motion and share learnings that shape our approach to building the team.

• Own full-cycle recruiting across engineering, go-to-market, and/or operations roles, from sourcing to offer acceptance.
• Help candidates understand Stainless by clearly articulating our mission, product, and culture, and being a trusted guide through a thoughtful interview process.
• Identify and execute opportunities to improve our recruiting strategy, employer brand, interview process, and candidate experience. And be a strong partner to hiring managers to put ideas into action.
• Maintain a healthy pipeline, track metrics accurately, and help us keep a sharp eye on what's working and what's not in our hiring process.
• Provide tight feedback to leadership on what candidates are looking for, where we're losing people, and what's resonating in our pitch.

• You have 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally with some time spent at a high-growth startup.
• You've recruited exceptional technical, go-to-market, and/or ops talent and are just as comfortable evaluating engineers as you are account executives.
• You've helped candidates understand and get excited about early-stage opportunities, and confidently positioned startup equity and growth potential against bigger, more established companies.
• You've started something before: a process, a team initiative, a side project; anything that shows you're a builder at heart.
• You take feedback well, act on it quickly, and want to be part of building something from the ground up. We are a high confidence, low ego team.
• You've got strong communication skills: clear writing, warm presence on calls, and an ability to sell complex opportunities simply.
• You're comfortable with shifting priorities and can balance multiple urgent roles without losing sight of quality.

• We offer competitive salary and generous equity grants.
• Great healthcare coverage options (e.g., fully covered platinum plans).
• Paid commuter benefits & similar.
• Paid team lunch/meals during workdays.
• Flexible PTO plus 3 weeks of company-wide vacation a year (2 weeks in December, 1 week at the end of the summer).
• Flexible WFH and 1 month fully remote per year ("remote February").