Founding Recruiter: Build the Talent Operating System

Trajectory; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Trajectory is hiring a Founding Recruiter to design the operating system for talent acquisition, identifying outliers, assessing fit, and guiding them to join. This full-stack role owns sourcing, interviewing, and closing with founders.

You’ll apply first-principles thinking to make recruiting scalable, build AI-powered tooling, and partner closely with the founders to move candidates through the funnel quickly and effectively.

Qualifications

• You design scalable recruiting processes and systems.
• Experience sourcing top talent across tech and research.
• Comfort building closed-loop pipelines with founders.

Responsibilities

• Build the talent operating system for end-to-end recruiting.
• Source the top 0.1% of candidates across multiple channels.
• Close with personalized plans alongside founders.

Skills

Systems thinker

Talent sourcing

Closing talent

AI tooling

Tools

Claude Code

Grok Bot

Job description

Trajectory is hiring a Founding Recruiter to design the operating system for talent acquisition, identifying outliers, assessing fit, and guiding them to join. This full-stack role owns sourcing, interviewing, and closing with founders.

You’ll apply first-principles thinking to make recruiting scalable, build AI-powered tooling, and partner closely with the founders to move candidates through the funnel quickly and effectively.