Founding Technical Recruiter

Garage Technologies, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and stock options

Health, dental and vision insurance

Unlimited PTO

Daily meals

Relocation assistance

Bi-annual team offsite

Job summary

Garage Technologies, Inc. is looking for a Founding Technical Recruiter in New York to build Engineering, Product, and Design teams as the company scales. You will own searches end to end, create pipelines from scratch, and drive a fast, thoughtful process to attract top technical talent.

Work closely with the CTO and leaders to push hiring quality and scale the recruiting ecosystem with modern tools like Ashby and AI assistants. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role in a fast-moving startup.

Qualifications

• Full-cycle experience in hiring technical talent for software engineering, design, product development, and data science.
• Strong network with NYC startup talent market.
• Ability to close talent with culture fit and high ownership.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle hiring across engineering, product, design, and data science with founders.
• Build targeted sourcing strategies using outbound, referrals, and technical communities.
• Run structured recruiting processes from screening to offer with a great candidate experience.
• Track pipeline health and scale recruiting systems and playbooks.
• Help grow the recruiting team as the company expands.

Skills

Full-cycle technical recruiting

Sourcing pipelines

Candidate experience

NYC startup talent market

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

Ashby

Juicebox

Metaview

Gem

Clay

ChatGPT

Claude

Job description

About us

Garage powers the exchange of critical assets across America's essential industries. We started with fire departments, where purchasing mission-critical vehicles and equipment used to take months of paperwork, phone calls, and delays. Our agentic platform automates the entire transaction: discovery, payments, freight, paperwork, warranty, and financing. What once took months now takes minutes.

In under a year, we've expanded to cities and towns in all 50 states and grown revenue more than 10x. Based in New York, we've raised $18M from Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, Infinity Ventures, FJ Labs, and other leading investors. We're moving fast, growing quickly, and just getting started.

About the role

As the Founding Technical Recruiter, you will help build the Engineering, Product, and Design teams behind Garage's next stage of growth. You'll partner closely with the CTO/Co-founder and engineering leaders to identify the builders who can turn a complex, mission-critical marketplace into an experience that customers love.

This is a hands-on role for someone who treats sourcing as a craft. You will own searches end to end, build targeted pipelines from scratch, run a fast and thoughtful process, and help Garage raise the bar with every hire.

• Own full-cycle hiring across engineering, product, design, and data science, partnering with founders to attract and close exceptional technical talent.


• Build and execute targeted sourcing strategies using outbound, referrals, communities, and technical communities to fill high-priority roles quickly.


• Run structured, high-quality recruiting processes, from screening through offer, while delivering an exceptional candidate experience.


• Track pipeline health in Ashby and build scalable recruiting systems and playbooks.


• Help grow out our recruiting team as the company grows.

What we’re looking for

• Treats recruiting as an ownership role and cares deeply about quality of hire.


• Knows how to engage technical talent and can make Garage stand out through compelling outreach.


• Enjoys building processes where it helps, but prefers practical systems over heavy recruiting bureaucracy.


• Is excited by Garage’s stage: small team, high trust, high ownership, and a lot of foundational hiring still ahead.

Required

• Full-cycle experience in hiring technical talent for software engineering, design, product development, and data science.


• A strong network with existing knowledge of the NYC startup talent market.


• Ability to close talent with a strong eye for culture fit.


• Passion for building high-performance teams in a fast-paced, innovative environment.


• Experience using Ashby, Juicebox, Metaview, Gem, Clay, ChatGPT, Claude, or other modern recruiting and AI tools.


• Strong organization in an ATS like Ashby.

Our values

• Growth oriented. We invest in people who grow as the company grows. We all should be constantly learning.


• Humility. Everyone has a lot to give and a lot to learn. We believe in creating an environment where the best ideas win and acknowledging when we are wrong.


• Customer focused. We have a genuine love for our customers. Customer success is our success.


• Hack to success. We move fast and take big swings. We always aim for a solution that addresses 80% of the problem in 20% of the time. We make informed bets, launch quickly, and iterate.

Why Garage?

• Our product is something people use everyday to buy the equipment local communities everywhere depend on.


• We've grown revenue over 10x in the last year and are well capitalized with $18M in funding raised total.


• We have a talent-dense, high-performing team from Ramp, Twitter, Goldman Sachs, Bilt, Wise, Unify, Honey, PayPal, and more.


• You'll be one of our first 35 employees, operating as a foundational member of the team, partnering alongside the company’s founders.

What we offer

• Competitive salary and stock options


• Health, dental and vision insurance (100% covered)


• Unlimited paid time off every year (in addition to company observed holidays)


• Daily lunch and dinner


• $100 monthly wellness stipend


• 401(k) with employer match


• Pre-tax commuter benefits


• Bi-annual team offsite


• Relocation assistance