Marketing & Advertising, Digital Agency, Consulting

Founding Recruiter

San Francisco, CAOnsiteFull TimeEntry-level (exp-based)$140,000–$190,000 /yrPosted 16 days ago

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Required skills

full-cycle recruiting
technical recruiting
business recruiting
sourcing
screening
coordinating
closing
hiring strategies
candidate experience
recruiting infrastructure

Nice to have

high-growth startup
Ashby
LinkedIn Recruiter
Juicebox
Harmonic

Role summary

Conversion is seeking a Founding Recruiter to build its recruiting function from the ground up. This role involves partnering directly with founders and hiring managers to recruit exceptional talent across technical and business roles, while also shaping recruiting systems, culture, and candidate experience. The position requires owning full-cycle recruiting, developing hiring strategies, delivering a thoughtful candidate experience, and iterating on recruiting infrastructure using data and market insights. The role is based in San Francisco and is in-person 5 days/week.

About Us

Conversion is the agentic marketing automation platform for modern enterprises such as Plaid, ClickHouse, Webflow, and Productboard. Our platform lets growth teams run their entire go-to-market motion in one place, from acquisition through retention, with AI agents doing the work that legacy tools like Marketo, HubSpot, and Pardot can't.
We've raised $28M+ from Abstract Ventures, True Ventures, and HOF Capital. The team is based in San Francisco and includes engineers, designers, and operators from Airbnb, Palantir, Pinterest, IMC, Shopify, LinkedIn, and Microsoft.

About the Role

You'll be one of Converion's Founding Recruiters, and help build the recruiting function from the ground up. That means partnering directly with founders and hiring managers to bring in exceptional people across technical and business roles. Furthermore, it includes helping shape the systems, culture, and candidate experience that will define how we grow.
This role is in-person 5 days/week in San Francisco.

What You'll Do

Own full-cycle recruiting across both technical and business roles. This includes sourcing, screening, coordinating, and closing
Partner with hiring managers to build effective hiring strategies and keep processes moving with clarity and speed
Deliver a thoughtful candidate experience from first outreach through offer
Iterate on the recruiting infrastructure: pipelines, documentation, ATS hygiene, and interview processes
Use data and market insights to advise on compensation, pacing, and where to focus sourcing efforts

Qualifications

1–4 years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally across both technical and business roles
Bonus points: experience at a high-growth startup/building a recruiting playbook
Familiarity with modern recruiting tools (For e.g. Ashby, LinkedIn Recruiter, Juicebox, Harmonic) to build and activate candidate pipelines
Experience working with recruiting agencies and calibrating them on ideal hires
Strong communicator who can earn trust quickly with candidates and also filter talent
Comfortable with ambiguity and able to drive execution and defining direction
Useful links
Website — https://conversion.ai/
Learn more about our company culture here: https://conversion.ai/careers
Read our Series A announcement here: https://techcrunch.com

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