Founding Recruiter

Clarasight; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Clarasight, the AI-powered Mission Control for Corporate Travel, seeks a Founding Recruiter to own talent acquisition as we scale across Boston, NYC, Lisbon, and London.

You'll build the hiring bar, design scalable processes, and implement Ashby workflows while partnering with founders and managers to attract top technical and GTM talent with automation enhancing candidate experience.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally in-house at a high-growth startup.
• Experience across multiple functions (engineering + GTM welcomed).
• Ability to define and improve recruiting processes and scorecards.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting across all functions, from sourcing to close.
• Manage and build out Ashby as our system of record with pipelines and scorecards.
• Bring automation and AI into the recruiting workflow to boost speed and signal.
• Partner with founders and hiring managers to scope roles and calibrate hiring bars.
• Shape and champion Clarasight's employer brand to attract top talent.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Automation & AI in recruiting

Candidate experience

Interview coordination

Stakeholder management

Tools

Ashby ATS

Gmail/Google tools

Job description

About Us

Join us in building the leading AI-Powered Mission Control for Corporate Travel. Some of the world's most recognizable companies, representing over $4T in market value, rely on Clarasight's software to reduce risks, save costs, protect revenues, and manage emissions aligned with business objectives and sustainability goals.

About You

You are a builder at heart — an empty org chart and an unwritten playbook are the best part of the job, not the scary part. You have run full-cycle searches end to end and know how to turn a hiring manager's rough wish list into a signed offer. You are equal parts relationship-driven and operationally rigorous: you can win over a passive candidate and just as easily build out an ATS, define a scorecard, and report on funnel health. You are excited by the idea of a recruiting function that runs on automation and AI rather than manual busywork. You care deeply about candidate experience because every interaction is the company's first impression. You thrive in ambiguity — when there's no process you create one, and when it breaks you fix it without being asked.

About the Role

As Clarasight's Founding Recruiter, you'll own talent acquisition for the whole company at the moment it matters most. This is our first dedicated recruiting hire — you'll partner directly with our founders and hiring managers to build the team that builds the product, recruiting across engineering, go-to-market, and operations while designing the systems and hiring bar that scale with us across Boston, NYC, Lisbon, and London. As an AI company, we expect our recruiting function to reflect it — you'll bring automation and AI into the process wherever it raises speed, signal, or candidate experience.

• Own full-cycle recruiting across every function — sourcing, screening, interview coordination, and close

• Manage and build out Ashby as our system of record: pipelines, structured interview loops, scorecards, and hiring metrics

• Bring automation and AI into the recruiting workflow to increase speed and signal without sacrificing candidate experience

• Partner with founders and hiring managers to scope roles, calibrate on bar, and run high-signal processes

• Shape and champion Clarasight's employer brand to attract exceptional talent in a competitive market

Key Responsibilities

• Source and engage top active and passive candidates across technical and GTM roles

• Run structured, consistent interview processes and keep every search moving with urgency

• Own and optimize Ashby — workflows, automations, and integrations — as the backbone of how we hire

• Establish and own hiring data — pipeline health, conversion, time-to-fill — and use it to improve

• Identify and deploy automation and AI tooling to streamline sourcing, screening, and coordination

• Manage agency and tooling relationships and decide when to build in-house vs. outsource

• Deliver a high-touch candidate experience from first outreach through offer

• Lay the foundation for a future talent team: playbooks, process, and a culture of hiring well

You’ll Be a Great Fit If You…

• Have 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally in-house at a high-growth startup

• Have recruited across multiple functions (engineering + GTM a strong plus)

• Have built or meaningfully improved recruiting processes, not just executed within them

• Are fluent in modern recruiting tooling and eager to apply automation and AI to the work

• Are an exceptional communicator who can represent the company and close candidates

• Operate with high agency and real comfort in ambiguity

• Are genuinely excited about startup life and building from zero

Nice to Haves

• Hands-on experience administering and building in Ashby

• Experience hiring across multiple geographies, including Europe (Lisbon / London)

• A track record of technical or engineering recruiting in a competitive market

• Experience working alongside AI systems and applying human judgment to automated outputs

Diverse Perspectives

We know that innovation thrives on teams where diverse points of view come together to solve hard problems in ways that are just now possible. As such, we explicitly seek people that bring diverse life experiences, diverse educational backgrounds, diverse cultures, and diverse work experiences. Please be prepared to share with us how your perspective will bring something unique and valuable to our team.