About the Role
We are seeking a founding recruiter to build the team that will transform the contingent workforce industry. You will be responsible for hiring engineers, sellers, and operators for Ropes, a company focused on revolutionizing talent acquisition with anti-fraud technology and skill-based interviews.
Responsibilities
- Own full-cycle recruiting across engineering, GTM, and operations, from sourcing through close
- Build hiring infrastructure from scratch, including interview processes, scorecards, pipeline tracking, and employer brand
- Partner directly with the CEO and founding team to define roles, calibrate on talent bar, and move fast on top candidates
- Source and close exceptional technical and commercial talent in a competitive hiring market
- Provide a recruiter's perspective on the product, influencing candidate evaluation processes
Requirements
- 2 to 5 years of experience in technical recruiting or talent acquisition at an early-stage or growth-stage B2B software company
- Experience hiring engineers and evaluating technical talent
- Ability to speak credibly with candidates about the tech stack and sell a vision for a growing company
- Strong sourcing skills utilizing outbound, referrals, events, and creative channels
- Organized, fast-moving, and focused on candidate experience
- Experience operating in a lean recruiting environment
Skills
- Technical recruiting
- Talent acquisition
- Full-cycle recruiting
- Sourcing
- Candidate evaluation
- Employer branding
- Interview process design
- Pipeline tracking
Location
- New York City
Work Type
- On-site
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 2-5 years
About the Company
- Ropes is building a new way for companies to hire talent, starting with anti-fraud technology and better skill-based interviews.
- We help staffing and recruiting firms fight fraud, identify top talent, and confidently market that talent to Fortune 500 companies and the top employers in the world.
- Talent-dense, capable team: We're a team of 10 from Penn, Stanford, Waterloo, Retool, MongoDB, and top tech companies with seed-stage headcount and Series A-type metrics.
- Well-capitalized: $3.1M seed round led by GSV Ventures & Boxgroup with angels from OpenAI, SpaceX, Retool, and more.
- Traction: We've flown past 7 figures in revenue, with dozens of enterprise staffing customers including the largest staffing firm in the world.
- Market opportunity: Our customers are the premier firms of the $600B+ staffing industry. We're working to reinvent how that market operates from the ground up.
