Founding Recruiter

Conversion AI; Santa Fe (NM); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Conversion AI is seeking a founding recruiter to help build the recruiting function from the ground up. You will partner directly with founders and hiring managers to recruit top technical and business talent and shape systems, culture, and candidate experience.

This role is in-person 5 days/week in San Francisco, joining a team expanding at a startup pace. You will influence compensation decisions, hiring strategies, and the overall growth trajectory of the company.

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 (Ashby, LinkedIn Recruiter, Juicebox, Harmonic).
• Experience working with recruiting agencies and calibrating them on ideal hires.
• Strong communicator who can earn trust quickly with candidates and filter talent.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to drive execution and define direction.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting across both technical and business roles, including 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.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Sourcing

Screening

Stakeholder management

Communication

Ambiguity tolerance

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

Useful links

• Website: https://conversion.ai/

• Learn more about our company culture here: https://conversion.ai/careers

• Read our Series A announcement here: https://techcrunch.com