About the Role
Own and scale all business-side recruiting across Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success. Partner closely with founders, hiring managers, and interviewers to drive full-cycle recruiting from sourcing and outreach to offer and close. This role offers the opportunity to build from 0 to 1, shape hiring strategy, create processes, and define recruiting excellence for Go-To-Market functions.
Responsibilities
- Own full-cycle recruiting for GTM roles.
- Craft compelling outreach and brand narratives that reflect Listen’s mission and craft.
- Build sourcing strategies and talent pipelines across functions and levels.
- Drive an exceptional candidate experience from first touch to close.
- Partner with founders on offer strategy, comp bands, and closing.
- Maintain data accuracy and reporting in Ashby (pipeline health, pass-through rates, source mix).
- Continuously improve interview processes, scorecards, and recruiting collateral.
- Represent Listen Labs at events and through outbound initiatives to attract top talent.
Requirements
- 3+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally across GTM/business roles.
- Experience in a startup or high-growth environment.
- A mix of agency and in-house experience is a plus.
- Proven track record of sourcing and closing top talent in competitive markets.
- Strong storytelling and written communication skills.
- Analytical mindset — you think in funnels, conversion rates, and data.
- Bias for action: you thrive in a fast-paced, founder-led environment with minimal structure.
- Deep care for candidate experience and team partnership.
Skills
- Sourcing
- Full-cycle recruiting
- Talent pipeline building
- Candidate experience
- Offer strategy
- Data analysis
- Storytelling
- Written communication
Location
- San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- Onsite
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Full medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- FSA/HSA and life insurance available.
- Competitive compensation with meaningful equity ownership.
- Annual Learning Stipend for books, courses, conferences, coaching, and language lessons.
- Annual Wellness Stipend for gym memberships, race fees, massages, and ergonomic gear.
- Monthly Stipend for AI tools, software, and GPU credits.
- Daily catered lunch and dinner in the SF office.
- Flexible time off (take-what-you-need vacation policy).
- Company offsites and events.
- Opportunities for professional growth and development.
About the Company
- Listen Labs is the world's fastest AI research platform, enabling companies to understand customer needs and drive decisions.
- Our AI conducts in-depth interviews, analyzes conversations, and delivers executive-ready insights rapidly.
- Founded out of a Harvard research project, Listen is trusted by leading brands like Google, Microsoft, Anthropic, Perplexity, Sweetgreen, Replit, and Nestlé.
- Company highlights include a world-class team founded by serial entrepreneurs, hypergrowth with 15x annualized revenue increase, and significant traction serving 15% of Fortune 100s.
