Roadrunner Venture Studios

Sourcing Recruiter, Deep Tech

Roadrunner Venture Studios

part-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

About the role

  • Talent map technical & business leaders; build target lists by company, lab, and research lineage.
  • Market map emerging sub-sectors; track who’s building what, where, and why it matters.
  • Source founders, founding hires, and SMEs across universities, national labs, open-source communities, and stealth startups.
  • Assess signal (not hype): translate patents, papers and traction into action.
  • Engage founders (technical and commercial) with thoughtful outreach, curiosity, and follow-through.
  • Organize our Pipeline: keep Sheets/Airtable/ATS records crisp, tagged, and searchable; maintain warm-lists.
  • Champion the brand: show up as Roadrunner in online communities, events, and intros—leave people impressed.

Requirements

  • A hunter’s mindset and a nose for quality. You love digging, connecting dots, and closing loops.
  • Fluency in deep tech curiosity—comfortable reading abstracts, scanning arXiv/PubMed/GitHub, and decoding jargon.
  • Founder empathy: you can talk to PhDs and operators, ask sharp questions, and earn trust fast.
  • VC literacy: stages, cap tables, round mechanics, why now/why us—clear and concise.
  • Structured systems: you keep lists current, notes tight, and signals comparable across candidates.
  • Strong written outreach that gets replies (and referrals).
  • Familiarity with tools like LinkedIn Recruiter, Airtable, Lever/Greenhouse, Crunchbase/PitchBook, and AI Tools like Metaview, SquarePeg and Juicebox