
Founding Growth & Operations
Required skills
- AI
- Recruiting Technology
- Talent Marketplace
- growth experiments
- process improvement
- workflow optimization
- playbook development
- systems thinking
- AI tools
- ownership mentality
Nice to have
- early-stage startups
- future of work
- customer-facing work
- startup generalist
Role summary
TalentPluto (YC) is seeking a Founding Growth & Operations generalist to scale the candidate side of their AI-native recruiting technology platform. This highly cross-functional role involves improving candidate discovery, experience, and operational efficiency through process building and technology integration. The ideal candidate is a builder excited by ambiguity and ownership in a fast-paced, early-stage startup environment, with a systems-oriented mindset and comfort using AI tools. This is an onsite role in New York City.
Location: Remote (United States)
Work Model: Remote
Industry: AI, Recruiting Technology, Talent Marketplace
Compensation: Competitive, based on experience, plus meaningful equity
About TalentPluto
Talentpluto (YC) is building AI-native infrastructure for the future of hiring and professional representation.
We help high-growth startups connect with exceptional candidates by combining recruiting expertise, proprietary technology, and AI-enabled workflows. Recruiting is our first wedge, but the long-term vision is much larger: to build a platform that helps people better represent themselves professionally, discover relevant opportunities, and navigate their careers in an increasingly AI-driven world.
We are an early-stage, fast-growing team based in New York City. We move quickly, operate with high ownership, and are looking for people who want to help build a company from the ground up.
The Opportunity
TalentPluto is hiring a Growth & Operations generalist to help scale the candidate side of our business.
This is a highly cross-functional role across growth, operations, product, and customer-facing work. You will help improve how candidates discover TalentPluto, how they move through our experience, and how we continue building a more scalable, technology-enabled hiring platform.
This is not a traditional recruiting role. It is a builder role for someone who wants to work close to the product, close to candidates, and close to the operating system of an early-stage company. You should be excited by ambiguity, motivated by ownership, and energized by the idea of turning messy, manual, high-context work into repeatable systems.
Responsibilities
- Help grow and improve the candidate side of TalentPluto’s marketplace.
- Own key candidate-facing workflows and ensure a high-quality experience as volume scales.
- Identify opportunities to improve internal processes, candidate engagement, and overall operational efficiency.
- Work cross-functionally with the team on growth experiments, product feedback, and workflow improvements.
- Support new initiatives across candidate acquisition, marketplace quality, and user experience.
- Help create structure around ambiguous problems by building processes, playbooks, and repeatable systems.
- Communicate with candidates, founders, and internal stakeholders with clarity and strong judgment.
- Operate across multiple priorities in a fast-moving, early-stage environment.
Requirements
- 1+ years of experience in operations, growth, recruiting, customer-facing work, startup generalist roles, or another high-ownership environment.
- Strong interest in early-stage startups, AI, marketplaces, recruiting technology, or the future of work.
- Excellent communication skills and sound judgment when working with external stakeholders.
- Systems-oriented mindset with the ability to spot patterns, improve workflows, and create structure.
- Comfort using AI tools and curiosity about how technology can improve real-world workflows.
- Strong ownership mentality and ability to execute without a detailed playbook.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment where priorities may evolve quickly.
- Based in New York City and excited to work in person with a small team.
Originally posted on Himalayas
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