GovSignals

Recruiting Lead

GovSignals

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: New York City • New York • United States

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Salary

💰 $100,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Own Full-Cycle Recruiting Across All Functions
  • Source, screen, and close candidates across engineering (product and platform), sales, GTM, client success, compliance, and operations
  • Manage multiple concurrent searches while maintaining quality and candidate experience
  • Build deep talent pipelines for critical roles before they become urgent
  • Design and Implement Hiring Infrastructure
  • Develop structured interview processes, scorecards, and evaluation criteria for each role type
  • Build repeatable hiring playbooks that maintain bar while increasing velocity
  • Implement and optimize Ashby ATS workflows and recruiting metrics dashboards
  • Partner with Leadership on Talent Strategy
  • Work with hiring managers to define role requirements, ideal candidate profiles, and compensation bands
  • Advise on org design and hiring sequencing to support company goals
  • Provide market intelligence on talent availability, compensation benchmarks, and competitive dynamics
  • Drive Recruiting Excellence
  • Own recruiting metrics including time-to-fill, pipeline conversion rates, and offer acceptance rates
  • Continuously improve sourcing channels and candidate experience
  • Build GovSignals' employer brand through compelling job descriptions, outreach, and candidate touchpoints
  • Scale the Function
  • Establish the foundation to grow recruiting capacity as hiring needs increase
  • Document processes and build the operational infrastructure for a future recruiting team

Requirements

  • 5+ years of recruiting experience with at least 2 years in a startup or high-growth environment where you built or significantly scaled hiring
  • Demonstrated track record of personally closing exceptional talent—people who meaningfully elevated the teams they joined
  • Experience hiring across multiple functions including technical roles (engineers) and go-to-market roles (sales, customer success, marketing)
  • Ability to move fast without sacrificing quality—comfortable managing 10+ active searches simultaneously
  • Strong sourcing skills with creativity in finding passive candidates beyond standard channels
  • Excellent judgment in evaluating talent and calibrating hiring bars
  • Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to build process while executing
  • Outstanding communication skills—you can represent GovSignals compellingly to candidates and provide clear, actionable feedback to hiring managers
  • High ownership mentality—you treat open roles like your own problem to solve, not tickets to process
  • Experience with ATS platforms and recruiting analytics.
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Hard Skills & Tools
full-cycle recruitingsourcingscreeningclosing candidatesstructured interview processeshiring infrastructurerecruiting metricssourcing channelsevaluating talentrecruiting analytics
Soft Skills
candidate experiencecommunication skillsjudgmentownership mentalitycreativityability to manage multiple searchescomfort with ambiguitycollaboration with leadershipmarket intelligenceprocess improvement