Paraform
Founding Technical Recruiter
3w ago
175000 –210000 USD / yearUSAMiddleRemotefull-cycle recruitingsourcingpipeline buildinginterview process designscorecardscandidate experiencerecruiting tools
Responsible for full-cycle technical recruiting for engineering, product, and design roles at a growth-stage company.
Responsibilities
- Paraform is disrupting how companies hire — and we're looking for someone to help us hire the best people to do it. As our Founding Technical Recruiter, you'll own engineering and technical hiring end-to-end at a pivotal moment in our growth. This isn't a coordinator role or a req-filler — you'll be a true talent partner to our engineering and product leaders, shaping how we find and sell world-class technical talent on Paraform.
- You'll be hands-on sourcing, closing, and iterating on our process — while also laying the recruiting infrastructure that scales with us.
- Own full-cycle recruiting for engineering, product, and design roles — from kickoff to close
- Source proactively and build pipelines for hard-to-fill technical roles, with a bias toward finding non-obvious talent that others miss
- Partner closely with hiring managers to deeply understand technical requirements, team dynamics, and what "great" actually looks like for each role
- Define and continuously sharpen our interview process, scorecards, and candidate experience for technical hires
- Build repeatable sourcing playbooks, calibration frameworks, and pipeline tracking that raise the bar over time
- Serve as a genuine ambassador for Paraform's mission — you should be able to speak credibly about our product, our market, and why the best engineers should want to work here
- Identify recruiting tooling, sourcing channels, and workflow improvements that increase quality and efficiency
Requirements
- 3–5+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, ideally with time spent in-house at a high-growth startup
- Proven track record closing strong engineering candidates in a competitive market
- Deep sourcing chops — you're not waiting on inbound; you know how to find people and get them interested
- Strong technical literacy — you don't need to code, but you can hold a real conversation about tech stacks, system design, and engineering culture
- High ownership mentality and comfort operating without a playbook
- Builder mindset — excited to create process and structure where there isn't any
- Familiarity with the recruiting industry or marketplace businesses is a plus (and genuinely interesting to us)
Other
- Paraform is a marketplace modernizing one of the largest and most fragmented markets in the world: hiring. We partner with industry leaders like Cursor, Palantir, Windsurf, Decagon, Shopify, Coinbase, and Hightouch to hire world-class talent, and are growing quickly - 8×-ing revenue last year.
- Paraform is the first end-to-end AI recruiting marketplace that connects companies with thousands of specialized recruiters and AI agents that work together to fill roles faster and more accurately.
- Our mission is to make hiring fast, reliable, and scalable for every company in the world.
- At Paraform, we believe recruiting works best when the right people are working on the right problems, combining human judgment with AI that truly understands hiring. That’s why we’re building a new foundation for how companies hire, bringing together specialized recruiters and modern AI tools.
- We treat recruiters like entrepreneurs, not vendors – and we’re building the financial, operational, and technical infrastructure that powers their success.
- We are backed by the best investors and technology leaders: Felicis, A*, BOND, Liquid 2, DST Global, the founders of YouTube, Instacart, Canva, and more.