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About the Role

As the Founding Technical Recruiter, you will help build the Engineering, Product, and Design teams for Garage's next stage of growth. You will partner closely with the CTO/Co-founder and engineering leaders to identify builders who can turn a complex, mission-critical marketplace into an experience customers love. This is a hands-on role for someone who treats sourcing as a craft, owning searches end-to-end, building targeted pipelines, running a fast and thoughtful process, and raising the bar with every hire.

Responsibilities

Own full-cycle hiring across engineering, product, design, and data science, partnering with founders to attract and close exceptional technical talent.
Build and execute targeted sourcing strategies using outbound, referrals, communities, and technical communities to fill high-priority roles quickly.
Run structured, high-quality recruiting processes, from screening through offer, while delivering an exceptional candidate experience.
Track pipeline health in Ashby and build scalable recruiting systems and playbooks.
Help grow out our recruiting team as the company grows.

Requirements

Treats recruiting as an ownership role and cares deeply about quality of hire.
Knows how to engage technical talent and can make Garage stand out through compelling outreach.
Enjoys building processes where it helps, but prefers practical systems over heavy recruiting bureaucracy.
Is excited by Garage’s stage: small team, high trust, high ownership, and a lot of foundational hiring still ahead.
Full-cycle experience in hiring technical talent for software engineering, design, product development, and data science.
A strong network with existing knowledge of the NYC startup talent market.
Ability to close talent with a strong eye for culture fit.
Passion for building high-performance teams in a fast-paced, innovative environment.
Experience using Ashby, Juicebox, Metaview, Gem, Clay, ChatGPT, Claude, or other modern recruiting and AI tools.
Strong organization in an ATS like Ashby.

Location

New York

Work Type

Full-time

Benefits

Competitive salary and stock options
Health, dental and vision insurance (100% covered)
Unlimited paid time off every year (in addition to company observed holidays)
Daily lunch and dinner
$100 monthly wellness stipend
401(k) with employer match
Pre-tax commuter benefits
Bi-annual team offsite
Relocation assistance

About the Company

Garage powers the exchange of critical assets across America’s essential industries.
Our agentic platform automates the entire transaction: discovery, payments, freight, paperwork, warranty, and financing.
In under a year, we’ve expanded to cities and towns in all 50 states and grown revenue more than 10x.
Based in New York, we’ve raised $18M from Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, Infinity Ventures, FJ Labs, and other leading investors.
We’re moving fast, growing quickly, and just getting started.
Our product is something people use everyday to buy the equipment local communities everywhere depend on.
We’ve grown revenue over 10x in the last year and are well capitalized with $18M in funding raised total.
We have a talent-dense, high-performing team from Ramp, Twitter, Goldman Sachs, Bilt, Wise, Unify, Honey, PayPal, and more.
You’ll be one of our first 35 employees, operating as a foundational member of the team, partnering alongside the company’s founders.