Founding Recruiter
Nectar Group
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Palo Alto • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $150,000 - $180,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Own the hiring plan: Partner with the founders and functional leaders to translate business goals into a clear headcount plan, role definitions, and hiring priorities.
- Build the recruiting engine: Design scalable recruiting processes including, structured interview loops, and decision-making processes that consistently raise our talent bar. Implement data-driven dashboards to track pipeline health, time-to-hire, and quality of hire.
- Source, engage, and close top talent: Own full-cycle searches across engineering, product, GTM, and operations. You bring a track record of generating strong pipelines and closing exceptional talent.
- Use creative, data-driven sourcing: Experiment with channels (outbound, communities, events, referrals, content) and use data to prioritize what works. Maintain a high-quality, high-velocity pipeline for priority roles.
- Elevate the hiring experience: Drive a best-in-class candidate experience from first touch through offer and onboarding.
- Build our talent brand: Partner with marketing and the founders to tell our story in the market—through content, events, communities, and candidate touchpoints. Turn our employees into magnetically attractive ambassadors for talent.
- Coach and enable hiring managers: Train the team on structured interviews, calibration, and closing; build playbooks and templates that make it easier for leaders to hire well.
- Be thoughtful about agencies: Own the strategy for when/if we use external partners and how to manage them when we do, with a bias toward strong in-house sourcing.
Requirements
- 5 - 7+ years of full-cycle recruiting, ideally with experience in early stage startups or a fast growing tech environment.
- Proven ability to identify, engage, and close exceptional candidates across technical and non-technical roles
- Track record of building recruiting processes that balance creativity, speed, and operational rigor.
- Strong prioritization skills and a bias toward action. You move quickly and deliver meaningful results.
- High talent bar with sharp judgment around culture add, role fit, and long-term potential.
- Energized by in-person collaboration with the team in Palo Alto.
- Startup DNA: resourceful, adaptable, low ego, and comfortable operating in ambiguity
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and early equity
- Health, vision, and dental benefits + 401(k) match
- A hybrid team based in Palo Alto with flexibility for in-office collaboration
- Deep exposure to cutting-edge AI tooling and the opportunity to shape its application inside brand teams
- A collaborative, ambitious team defining a new category of AI-native marketing infrastructure
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
full-cycle recruitingdata-driven sourcingstructured interview processespipeline managementcandidate experience designrecruiting process designtalent brand developmenttraining and coachingagency management
Soft skills
prioritizationcreativityoperational rigorjudgmentcollaborationresourcefulnessadaptabilitylow egocomfort in ambiguity