Founding Recruiter — Build a Scalable Hiring Engine

Dili Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Dili in New York, NY (Union Square, hybrid) is seeking a Founding Recruiter to own hiring across engineering, product, compliance, customer success, sales, and G&A. This is the first dedicated recruiting hire at Dili. Today, hiring is run by the founders and hiring managers.

Your job is to take that over, raise the bar, and build the recruiting function that will carry us through our next stage of growth. This is a hands-on role.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including meaningful time in-house at a high-growth startup.
• A track record of hiring across multiple functions, ideally both technical and non-technical roles.
• Experience building recruiting from scratch or near-scratch: selecting and implementing an ATS, designing interview processes, and setting up reporting.
• Strong direct-sourcing skills and comfort recruiting senior, passive candidates.
• Experience running structured interview processes and coaching hiring managers to use them well.
• Comfort with compensation conversations, offer construction, and closing, including explaining startup equity.
• A data-driven approach: you track your funnel and use it to make decisions.
• Strong judgment, high integrity, and the ability to keep confidential information confidential.
• Able to manage many searches at once without dropping details.
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting across all functions: intake, sourcing, screening, interview coordination, closing, and offer negotiation.
• Partner with the founders and leadership to build a quarterly hiring plan tied to company goals and headcount budget.
• Run intake meetings with hiring managers to define each role clearly, including scorecards, must-haves, and interview loops.
• Source senior and hard-to-find talent directly, including engineers and go-to-market leaders.
• Select, implement, and own our recruiting stack, including the ATS, sourcing tools, scheduling, and offer workflows.
• Establish core best practices: structured interviews, calibrated scorecards, interviewer training, debrief standards, and consistent candidate communication.
• Build reporting on pipeline health, time-to-hire, conversion rates, offer acceptance, and source quality.
• Define compensation bands and leveling with the founders, and manage offers within them.
• Create a candidate experience that reflects how we work: fast, direct, and respectful of people's time.
• Build Dili's employer brand and talent pipelines through referrals, communities, events, and outreach.
• Manage relationships with agencies and contract recruiters when we need extra capacity.
• As hiring volume grows, hire, onboard, and manage additional recruiters and coordinators.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

In-house startup experience

Cross-functional hiring

Structured interviews

Compensation & offers

Direct sourcing

Data-driven recruiting

ATS implementation

Tools

Ashby

Greenhouse

Lever

LinkedIn Recruiter

Gem

Job description

Dili in New York, NY (Union Square, hybrid) is seeking a Founding Recruiter to own hiring across engineering, product, compliance, customer success, sales, and G&A. This is the first dedicated recruiting hire at Dili. Today, hiring is run by the founders and hiring managers.

Your job is to take that over, raise the bar, and build the recruiting function that will carry us through our next stage of growth. This is a hands-on role.