Founding Recruiter

Conversion

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

16 hours ago

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Job summary

Conversion is hiring a founding recruiter to build the recruiting function from the ground up in San Francisco. You will work directly with founders and hiring managers to attract exceptional talent across technical and business roles, shaping systems, culture, and the candidate experience that will define growth.

You'll own full-cycle recruiting, partnering with teams to design effective hiring strategies, drive pipelines, and maintain speed and quality in a fast‑growing environment.

Qualifications

1-4 years of full-cycle recruiting experience across technical and business roles.
Experience building a recruiting function or playbook in a high-growth startup is a plus.
Strong communication skills and ability to earn trust with candidates and hiring teams.

Responsibilities

Own full-cycle recruiting across technical and business roles, including sourcing, screening, coordinating, and closing.
Partner with founders and hiring managers to shape hiring strategies and move processes with clarity and speed.
Deliver a thoughtful candidate experience from initial outreach to offer.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Startup recruiting

Investor/Founders collaboration

Communication

Tools

Ashby

LinkedIn Recruiter

Juicebox

Harmonic

Job description

About Us

Conversion is the agentic marketing automation platform for modern enterprises such as Plaid, ClickHouse, Webflow, and Productboard. Our platform lets growth teams run their entire go-to-market motion in one place, from acquisition through retention, with AI agents doing the work that legacy tools like Marketo, HubSpot, and Pardot can't. We've raised $28M+ from Abstract Ventures, True Ventures, and HOF Capital. The team is based in San Francisco and includes engineers, designers, and operators from Airbnb, Palantir, Pinterest, IMC, Shopify, LinkedIn, and Microsoft.

About The Role

You'll be one of Converion's Founding Recruiters, and help build the recruiting function from the ground up. That means partnering directly with founders and hiring managers to bring in exceptional people across technical and business roles. Furthermore, it includes helping shape the systems, culture, and candidate experience that will define how we grow.

This role is in-person 5 days/week in San Francisco.

What You'll Do

Own full-cycle recruiting across both technical and business roles. This includes sourcing, screening, coordinating, and closing
Partner with hiring managers to build effective hiring strategies and keep processes moving with clarity and speed
Deliver a thoughtful candidate experience from first outreach through offer
Iterate on the recruiting infrastructure: pipelines, documentation, ATS hygiene, and interview processes
Use data and market insights to advise on compensation, pacing, and where to focus sourcing efforts

Qualifications

1-4 years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally across both technical and business roles
Bonus points: experience at a high-growth startup/building a recruiting playbook
Familiarity with modern recruiting tools (For e.g. Ashby, LinkedIn Recruiter, Juicebox, Harmonic) to build and activate candidate pipelines
Experience working with recruiting agencies and calibrating them on ideal hires
Strong communicator who can earn trust quickly with candidates and also filter talent
Comfortable with ambiguity and able to drive execution and defining direction

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