
Founding Recruiter
Leap
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $160,000 - $200,000 per year
About the role
- Lead full-cycle recruiting for critical and complex roles, maintaining high-quality pipelines from sourcing through close
- Prioritize and manage multiple searches simultaneously based on business impact and urgency
- Operate as a highly leveraged individual contributor, using systems and automation to deliver strong outcomes at scale
- Design and implement structured interview processes (scorecards, exercises, interview plans) that improve signal quality and consistency
- Build scalable workflows, templates, and systems that reduce manual effort and increase hiring efficiency
- Leverage AI and modern tooling to automate low-leverage work and streamline the recruiting lifecycle
- Lead intake and calibration to define role scope, success criteria, and evaluation approach
- Coach hiring managers across varying experience levels to improve interviewing, decision-making, and overall hiring effectiveness
- Partner with leadership on offer strategy, leveling, and hiring tradeoffs while laying the foundation for a scalable talent function
Requirements
- 5–8+ years of recruiting experience, including significant in-house experience
- Proven ability to run full-cycle recruiting across a range of roles
- Experience operating in early-stage or high-growth environments
- Demonstrated track record of building or improving recruiting processes, systems, or workflows
- Strong prioritization and judgment across multiple roles and competing business needs
- Ability to influence hiring managers and drive alignment on hiring decisions and tradeoffs
- Demonstrated ability to use modern recruiting tools and AI to increase output and reduce manual work.
Benefits
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Hard Skills & Tools
full-cycle recruitingstructured interview processesbuilding recruiting processesimproving recruiting systemsworkflow designautomationAI in recruiting
Soft Skills
prioritizationjudgmentinfluencecoachingdecision-makingalignment