Founding Recruiter

About this role

About Clera

Clera is an AI-powered recruiting platform reinventing how top talent connects with U.S. companies. We automate sourcing, matching, and evaluation so hiring teams move faster and candidates get a sharper, more human experience.

As a Senior Recruiter, you’ll be at the center of this, partnering closely with our founding and engineering team to shape how AI is used in modern recruiting.

Your Mission

Own high-impact, end-to-end searches for U.S.

-based roles using Clera’s AI platform. You’ll be the strategic recruiting partner for our clients: running full cycles, advising hiring managers, and using data and judgment to drive great hires.

This is a high-ownership role in a fast-moving startup for someone who’s comfortable operating independently, pushing back when needed, and making strong calls on talent.

What You’ll Do

• Run full-cycle recruiting for U.S.
  
  -based roles using Clera’s AI-powered platform.
• Review AI-generated matches and quickly identify the strongest, most relevant talent.
• Interview and qualify candidates, then present tight, high-signal shortlists to hiring managers.
• Join client calls, clarify role requirements, and provide honest, strategic hiring guidance.
• Act as a true partner to clients, including challenging unclear or unrealistic expectations.
• Own candidate pipelines end-to-end, ensuring fast, clean movement through every stage.
• Give structured feedback to the engineering team to improve matching logic and workflows.
• Keep candidate notes and process documentation accurate, up to date, and reliable.
• Prioritize across multiple searches and drive them to successful hires with minimal oversight.

What You Bring

• 3+ years recruiting for U.S. clients or U.S.
  
  -based roles.
• Proven experience in fast-paced environments (startup or high-velocity agency).
• Strong client-facing presence: clear communication, expectation management, and relationship-building.
• Excellent English, written and spoken.
• Ability to work aligned with Pacific Time (PST), including occasional evening or weekend calls.
• High comfort with tools, ATS, and AI-driven workflows.
• Sharp judgment on skills, experience, and culture add—not just keyword matching.
• High ownership, reliability, and the ability to move fast without hand-holding.

Nice to Have

• Experience recruiting across multiple functions (engineering, sales, operations, G&A).
• Background in both agency and in-house recruiting.
• Hands-on experience improving recruiting tools, processes, or product.
• Success managing multiple searches and high-volume pipelines in parallel.

Role Details

• Location: LATAM or US (Remote)
• Schedule: Flexible, 40–50 hours/week aligned with PST

If you love fast-moving environments, owning complex recruiting workflows, and being measured by real hiring outcomes, we’d like to talk.

Clera is the agentic recruiting marketplace that activates the 75% of candidates who never apply. We're a fast-growing AI startup rethinking how top talent and companies find each other—solving the market's core problem of irrelevant matches through a talent-first approach. Rather than waiting for applications, our AI agents proactively connect passive candidates with leading companies and coach them through the journey to actually get hired.

We raised a large pre‑seed round to tackle this challenge at scale.

Cracked team of operators and ex‑founders who moved together to a hacker house to go all‑in and provide some real impact. You'll work directly with the founders:

• Sebastian (CEO) — Built two consumer marketplaces to 15K users, first  firsthand the value human recruiters provide.
• Daniel (CTO) — Head of Engineering at HR scale‑up Lofino (acquired), led 15 engineers. Serial builder — first startup at 18, then a VC‑backed marketplace.
• Alexander (COO) — Scaled a Series A messenger startup to €10M ARR as Chief of Staff. Led recruiting (80 FTEs) and growth.

• Competitive salary + equity
• Flexible hours
• Health insurance
• Learning budget
• Hacker house
• Work with a team of A‑players