Recruiting Leader

Recruiting Leader

Salary: $125,000 - $200,000 per year

Location:

New York, New York

This is a Series A AI platform for financial services whose flagship product autonomously prepares tax returns for CPA and accounting firms. The company launched to a waiting list of over 4,000 accounting firms after operating in stealth with 40% of the Top 20 CPA firms, delivering 99% accuracy and saving up to 98% of preparation time versus manual workflows. Rapidly accelerating toward $100M ARR and backed by Oak HC/FT, a16z, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, and Trust Ventures, along with notable angels including the former CEO of Thomson Reuters, the founder of Pay Pal and Aff and other prominent fintech figures.

This is a high-ownership recruiting role reporting directly to the CEO. You will own full-cycle recruiting across engineering, AI, product, sales, and operations as the company scales from 50 to 100+ over the coming years. You are the first and only recruiter for at least six to twelve months. The work is foundational you are building the recruiting engine, the hiring bar, and the playbook every future hire will run through.

The difficulty is not convincing people to join. It is maintaining quality and being methodical about each placement as the business accelerates.

• Full-Cycle Recruiting
  • Own sourcing, screening, closing, and onboarding across engineering, AI, product, sales, and operations
  • Build relationships with high-caliber candidates inside and outside your network
  • Run a hiring process that holds quality steady as volume climbs
• Calibration and Hiring Bar
  • Partner with the CEO, CTO, and VP of Operations to define the hiring bar and calibrate on talent
  • Partner with VP Product and VP Sales as roles open across their functions
  • Leverage data on comp, candidate pools, and competitive offers in every search
• Foundation for Scale
  • Build recruiting workflows, frameworks, and tooling to scale from 50 to 100+
  • Stand up the systems, dashboards, and reporting the future team will inherit
  • Document the hiring bar so it survives volume increases and headcount changes

• 4+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience at a high-growth startup with a strong technical or engineering hiring focus
• Demonstrated track record building out technical teams and hiring across multiple disciplines including engineering, AI, product, and GTM
• Hands-on operator willing to personally source, screen, and close no expectation to delegate to sourcers or coordinators
• Comfort being the first and only recruiter for 12 months and laying recruiting infrastructure solo
• Based in Austin or New York City with willingness to work in-person at a startup pace

• Report directly to the CEO highest-visibility recruiting role possible at a Series A company
• Backed by a16z, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, and Oak HC/FT elite investor syndicate with deep fintech conviction
• Rapidly accelerating toward $100M ARR you are building the recruiting engine during a defining growth period
• First and only recruiter greenfield ownership of the entire talent function with no inherited mess to untangle
• Competitive salary of $,000 plus equity-based compensation
• Platinum, 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance
• HSA, FSA, One Medical, Talkspace, and Kindbody coverage included
• 401(k) and Roth 401(k) with employer-sponsored investment benefits
• Parental leave, unlimited PTO, WFH stipend, and relocation support to Austin or NYC