Founding Recruiter

Pace; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Pace, an AI operations partner, is building its talent function from the ground up in New York. We seek a recruiter who will own sourcing through closing, partnering with the founder and GTM teams.

You will shape hiring strategies, engage top tech talent, and represent Pace to candidates. This is a hands-on role for someone who thrives in a fast, high-impact environment.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating a full-cycle recruiting process.
• Proven ability to identify and engage top talent for early-stage startups.
• Excellent collaboration and feedback skills.

Responsibilities

• Talent sourcing to identify top candidates aligned with Pace's values.
• Represent Pace and close future teammates.
• Define and execute talent strategy with founders and managers.
• Own recruiting tools and manage candidate lifecycle.

Skills

Talent sourcing

Relationship building

Communication

Full-cycle recruiting

Job description

Pace is an AI operations partner for the world's leading insurers. We combine the speed of AI agents with expert review by our insurance operations team to automate insurance tasks.

Almost $400bn per year is spent on outsourcing in financial services outsourcing every year. We’re here to change that working side-by-side with some of the largest companies in the world.

Role

• We’re looking for someone with a deep understanding of talent mapping and early-stage tech ecosystem to build out our talent function from the ground up. In this role, you’ll partner closely with the founder and founding team across EPD and GTM to develop and execute strategies to identify, engage and hire top talent. You’ll build our recruiting process and operate as a full-cycle recruiter from sourcing through closing candidates.

Responsibilities

In this role, core responsibilities will include:

• Talent Sourcing: Think creatively to identify top talent aligned with our values and goals and relentlessly engage with them.
• Represent and sell Pace: Be the face of Pace to candidates and play the lead role in closing future teammates
• Talent Strategy: Partner with the founder and hiring managers on developing a talent strategy for each function including hiring goals, ideal candidate profiles and interview processes
• Operations: Own recruiting tools and processes and coordinate with candidates through the candidate life-cycle

You're a great fit if you

• Worked at early-stage companies before. Early-stage startups require a special mindset and you know what it takes to be successful in one.
• Relentlessly build relationships with top talent. You’re willing to get your hands dirty sourcing candidates and building out your network. You’re plugged into the tech ecosystem.
• A strong collaborator and communicator. In this role, you’ll work closely with many team members and be asked to give and receive feedback frequently. You know how to take and communicate feedback internally and to candidates.

Team characteristics

The Pace team has a couple of defining characteristics:

• Integrity: The most important thing is working with good people who want to have a massive impact on the world. Our team genuinely wants to do the best work of their careers and know it’ll take 5-10 years of focus to deliver.
• Ambition: The ambition for this company is not just a good vertical AI business but a $100bn+ outcome across vertical services. We’re looking for people that rise that level of ambition. Often times this means they want to be the best at what they do, become leaders at scale or one day start their own company. Pace will be the best place to learn, deliver impact and advance your path to do something great.

Trajectory

At Pace, we're building a talent-dense team where teammates grow into leaders. This might mean growing into a world-class IC or leading teams. Whichever your path, we want to support you to grow at Pace and beyond for the long-term.

We're a 20 person team based in-person in New York and are lucky to be perfectly positioned with leading customers and top investors to make a real impact on one of the largest industries in the world.