Founding Technical Recruiter

Town.com; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Town is building the AI coworker for every team. We’re hiring our founding technical recruiter to own how Town finds, engages, and closes engineers who will define the company.

You’ll partner with the founders and other leaders to personally carry our most important technical searches, and to build the machine underneath them so a small team can hire like a much larger one.

Location: SF office five days a week in-person at our Financial District office.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience.
• Hiring staff-level engineers (backend, AI/ML, infra, or similar)—ideally at a high-growth start-up.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle technical recruiting from sourcing to closing.
• Partner with founders and leaders to carry our most important technical searches.
• Build and maintain infrastructure to move fast, get high signal, and improve hiring processes.
• Recruit for Town on Town by leveraging product understanding to improve sourcing and coordination.

Skills

Full-cycle technical recruiting

Staff-level engineering hiring

Candidate experience

AI curiosity

Job description

About Town

Town is building the AI coworker for every team. Everyone gets their own Townie, an AI assistant that learns how you work (your voice, judgment, relationships, and priorities) and does real work on your behalf across email, calendar, docs, Slack, and CRM. Townies don't wait to be prompted. They observe, learn, and act. And because every teammate has one, Townies can ask each other questions and hand off work, so the whole team moves faster together.

Four months after our public launch, we became a $1B company. We recently raised a $108M Series B, co-led by Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures, with continued support from Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital and angels such as Zach Perret, Soleio Cuervo, Scott Belsky, and more. Our founders, Jean-Denis and Tony, previously led EPD at Plaid and applied AI product at Google.

About the Role

At a company of our size and stage, the caliber of the team is one of the highest leverage focus areas. Every hire impacts the average, and the bar is deliberately, uncomfortably high. We're hiring our founding technical recruiter to own how Town finds, engages, and closes the engineers who will define the company.

You'll partner closely with the founders and other leaders across the company to personally carry our most important technical searches, and to build the machine underneath them so a small team can hire like a much larger one.

What you'll own

• Full-cycle technical recruiting. From sourcing to closing and everything in between, across engineering (staff backend, AI product, growth etc.), likely with some product & design as well.




• The candidate experience. High-touch, swift, thoughtful, and human at every touchpoint. You're often an individual's first touchpoint with Town, and you know how important candidate experience is to building an exceptional company & culture.




• Helping build the systems. The interview loops and evaluation criteria are largely in place - our HMs are tentured and know what good looks like. But you'll help build and maintain the infrastructure that allows us to move fast, get high signal, recognize patterns and improve how we do things.




• Recruit for Town on Town. You'll get to know and leverage our product intimately to make sourcing, outreach, and coordination dramatically more efficient. Working at a company where you're one of the core ICPs is an incredible advantage, and you'll be expected to leverage it and make us better.

You might thrive in this role if you...

• Have 4+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, with a track record hiring staff-level engineers (backend, AI/ML, infra, or similar) - ideally at a high-growth start-up




• Get joy across the recruiting lifecycle. You know what it takes to build strong top of funnel, and you enjoy building the relationships that get the toughest closes over the line.




• Know enough to be dangerous when conversing with top technical talent. You can hold a credible conversation about what an engineer actually does, and tell signal from noise on a resume.




• Operate with high agency. You find the work and own the outcome. You decide at 70%, not 90%, and correct as you go.




• Write exceptionally well and represent Town with warmth and precision to every candidate.




• Are AI-curious at a minimum. You've experimented with how AI can make you a better recruiter, and want to use AI to make yourself more effective.




• Get energy from working with people in person. We're 5x per week at our office in SF.

Location

San Francisco, CA - five days a week in-person at our Financial District office (near the Montgomery BART/Muni stop).