Founding Technical Recruiter

Paraform; Buffalo, City of Niagara Falls (NY, NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Paraform is seeking an experienced Founding Technical Recruiter to source and close top 1% engineers for a high-growth AI recruiting marketplace. You will partner with the founders to scale the team as we disrupt how companies hire, building a culture of excellence and delivering world‑class candidates for a fast-moving startup.

Responsibilities include full‑cycle recruiting, setting our talent bar with hiring managers, owning candidate coordination and employer branding, and optimizing hiring

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years of full-cycle recruiting for technical roles, ideally in-house at a high-growth startup.
• Proven track record closing strong candidates in a competitive market.
• Deep sourcing chops with proactive candidate outreach.
• High ownership mentality and comfort operating without a playbook.
• Builder mindset with ability to create process and structure.
• Familiarity with recruiting in marketplace or tech-enabled businesses is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Full-Cycle Recruiting: Own sourcing, screening, interviewing, and closing candidates across multiple functions.
• Talent Strategy: Work with founders and hiring managers to set talent bar, hiring goals, candidate experience, and employer branding.
• Talent Operations: Own candidate coordination, recruiting tools, and continuously improve hiring processes.
• People Ops: Have the option to lead HR/People Ops in the interim as needed.
• Promote Paraform: Speak credibly about our product, market, and why top candidates should join.

Skills

Full-Cycle Recruiting

Sourcing & Headhunting

Employer Branding

Startup Experience

Talent Strategy

Job description

About The Role

Paraform is disrupting how companies hire — and we're looking for someone to help us hire the best people to do it. We're looking for an experienced, high-powered Founding Technical Recruiter who lives and breathes talent and is an expert working with early stage and high growth startups. You'll primarily be focused on sourcing top 1% talent to join the Paraform team, driving a culture of excellence, and supporting the company with everything else hiring-related as we rapidly scale.

About The Role

Paraform is disrupting how companies hire — and we're looking for someone to help us hire the best people to do it. We're looking for an experienced, high-powered Founding Technical Recruiter who lives and breathes talent and is an expert working with early stage and high growth startups. You'll primarily be focused on sourcing top 1% talent to join the Paraform team, driving a culture of excellence, and supporting the company with everything else hiring-related as we rapidly scale.

What You'll Do

• Full-Cycle Recruiting: Own sourcing, screening, interviewing, and closing candidates across multiple functions
• Talent Strategy: Work with the founders and hiring managers to set our talent bar, hiring goals, candidate experience, and employer branding
• Talent Operations: Own candidate coordination, recruiting tools (including Paraform!), and continuously improve our hiring processes and structures
• People Ops: Have the option to own HR/People Ops in the interim on an as-needed basis
• Promote Paraform: Serve as a genuine ambassador for Paraform's mission — you should be able to speak credibly about our product, our market, and why the best candidates should want to work here

What We're Looking For

• 3–5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience for technical roles, ideally with time spent in-house at a high-growth startup
• Proven track record closing strong candidates in a competitive market
• Deep sourcing chops — you're not waiting on inbound; you know how to find people and get them interested
• High ownership mentality and comfort operating without a playbook
• Builder mindset — excited to create process and structure where there isn't any
• Familiarity with the recruiting industry or marketplace businesses is a plus (and genuinely interesting to us)

About Paraform

Paraform is a marketplace modernizing one of the largest and most fragmented markets in the world: hiring. We partner with industry leaders like Decagon, Palantir, Rippling, Abridge, and Hightouch to hire world-class talent, and are growing quickly - 8×-ing revenue last year. Paraform is the first end-to-end AI recruiting marketplace that connects companies with thousands of specialized recruiters and AI agents that work together to fill roles faster and more accurately. Our mission is to make hiring fast, reliable, and scalable for every company in the world. At Paraform, we believe recruiting works best when the right people are working on the right problems, combining human judgment with AI that truly understands hiring. That’s why we’re building a new foundation for how companies hire, bringing together specialized recruiters and modern AI tools. We treat recruiters like entrepreneurs, not vendors – and we’re building the financial, operational, and technical infrastructure that powers their success. We are backed by the best investors and technology leaders: Scale, Felicis, A*, BOND, Liquid 2, DST Global, the founders of YouTube, Instacart, Canva, and more.