Business Recruiter

Cape; Washington, New York (District of Columbia, NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Medical/dental/vision premiums for you

12 weeks paid parental leave

Family-forming stipends

Gender-affirming care

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Cape is seeking a recruiter to build and manage high-performing talent pipelines in a fast-growing privacy-focused tech environment. You will work closely with hiring teams to design targeted search strategies, assess candidates, and close roles across multiple technical openings.

Experience in tech startups and a data-driven mindset will help you excel as we scale. This role reports to the Head of Operations and offers equity alongside competitive, location-based compensation.

Qualifications

• 4+ years recruiting experience with an in-house team.
• Experience in tech startups and fast-paced environments.
• Strong relationship-building with active and passive candidates.
• Proven ability to build and manage diverse pipelines.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Willingness to move quickly and close searches.

Responsibilities

• Meet (or exceed) weekly, monthly, quarterly recruiting goals and hiring targets.
• Partner with hiring teams to understand needs and develop full-cycle hiring strategies for each role.
• Develop close relationships with managers and interview teams to align on role scope.
• Build talent pipelines for multiple technical requisitions.
• Run searches and engage passive candidates via Ashby, LinkedIn, and Google search.
• Execute sourcing, assessment, and closing approaches with ROI awareness.

Skills

Recruiting

In-house recruiting

Tech startups

Relationship building

Pipeline management

Interviewing

Data-driven recruiting

Tools

Ashby

LinkedIn

Google Search

Job description

About Cape

Cape is America’s privacy-first mobile carrier. Our mission is to be a force for good in global wireless. Cape was founded in 2022 by people who believe privacy is a fundamental right, not a luxury to be traded away. Our journey began when our founder recognized a critical vulnerability in our modern world: everyone relies on the same stagnant cellular infrastructure and legacy systems that track our every movement, monitor and profile our connections, and lose and sell our personal data.

Instead of accepting the status quo, we decided to fix it. National security professionals, journalists, parents, and everyone in between can stay connected and have privacy.

We didn’t just build a layer on top of old tech; we built America’s most private and secure mobile carrier from the ground up. By building our own network from scratch, we are able to design and build a suite of privacy and security features that no other carrier on the planet can offer.

Today, Cape provides our secure network to consumers, businesses, and government agencies alike. We closed our Series C in March 2026, and we are scaling rapidly, with the goal of giving people back control of their most personal information.

The Team

At Cape, we are the architects of a privacy-centric movement that is just getting started. We are relentless builders, constantly innovating at the edge of what's possible in telecommunications. We operate on a foundation of high trust and high expectations. Our structure is flat, and collaboration matters more than hierarchy. As a member of our team, you will collaborate with world-class engineers, architects, and visionaries, and work across organizational lines to solve "impossible" problems and deliver mission‑critical results for our users every single day.

The Opportunity

We are building the most user-friendly recruiting and HR machine in the world to propel Cape’s growth. The right candidate treats every open role as a massive opportunity cost for the company. They move fast to manage, prioritize, and close searches.

They develop practical and creative ways to identify leading talent, creating a world-class experience for Capers and candidates. They use data to benchmark, surface challenges, and set a new bar for process and quality. In summary, the right candidate, along with the hiring managers, builds high-performing teams that embody Cape’s values and culture.

This is a fast-paced, passionate environment in explosive growth mode - we need you to find the best of the best who will continue to make Cape a great company. This role reports to our Head of Operations.

What You'll Work On

• Meet (or exceed) weekly, monthly, quarterly recruiting goals and hiring targets

• Partner with hiring teams to deeply understand hiring needs and requirements of the role and the ideal candidate, and develop unique full cycle hiring strategies and interview criteria for each role

• Develop a close business relationship with hiring managers, interview teams and executives to influence scoping of roles and ensuring interview team alignment

• Build talent pipelines for multiple technical job requisitions at any given time

• Run searches and engage with passive candidates via Ashby, LinkedIn, Google Search Engine, and other platforms

• Execute and build effective sourcing, assessment, and closing approaches with an ability to manage hiring manager expectations through a deep understanding of return on investment

• Provide positive and exceptional interview experiences for all parties

Experience

• Relentless passion and drive to find and connect with the best talent

• 4+ years recruiting experience with an in‑house recruiting team

• Experience in tech startups and demonstrated ability to achieve goals in a low structure, fast-paced environment in a flexible manner

• A sincere understanding of the importance of building relationships with active and passive candidates of all levels

• Proven experience in building and managing a diverse pipeline

• Exceptional organizational skills, with attention to detail and great follow-through

• Passionate, driven mentality with the readiness to jump right in and go!

• Keep ‘em warm! Manage the existing pipeline of candidates and identify potential opportunities for the future

Compensation:

We offer competitive compensation that is geo-adjusted based on your location, along with meaningful equity so you share in the value you help create. Salary range for this role in New York, New York and Arlington, VA is $130,000-$180,000 depending on experience and interview performance. Our benefits include:

• 401(k) match

• 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and your dependents

• 12 weeks paid parental leave (for all parents, no waiting period)

• Stipends for

  • Family-forming needs

  • Gender-affirming care

• Unlimited PTO

Our Culture & Values

• We hire excellent people, give them outsized responsibility, and trust them to execute. Every person at Cape has a proven track record of tackling hard problems and winning.

• We believe that personal privacy and national security are not at odds, and that they can be reconciled through strong technology.

• We believe companies exist to build awesome things and take care of the people who build them, so we offer top‑tier healthcare, 401(k) matching, and a generous vacation policy that our team actually uses to recharge.

• We believe that a stronger company and a better product are built by people from all walks of life. We hire without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, disability, or Veteran status. If you are great at what you do, you belong here.

We reserve the right to make use of any unsolicited resumes received from outside recruiting agencies and / or individual recruiters without being responsible for payment of any fees asserted from the use of unsolicited resumes.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin, and without regard to disability or status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by law.