Growth & Product Recruiting Lead — Build Our Hiring Engine

Bidbus, Inc; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Bidbus, Inc. is seeking a hands-on Recruiting Lead to build and own our internal recruiting engine from the ground up in Irvine, CA. You will identify exceptional talent, reach out to passive candidates, and partner directly with founders and hiring managers to define what great looks like for each role.

You’ll own full-cycle recruiting across Growth, Product, Design, Marketing, and other strategic functions, building talent maps and crafting sourcing playbooks to scale with the company’s growth.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of recruiting or talent acquisition experience.
• Strong track record recruiting for consumer technology, marketplaces, fintech, e-commerce, or high-growth startups.
• Experience recruiting roles such as Growth Product Managers, Consumer Product Managers, Product Designers / Growth Designers, Growth Marketing / Performance Marketing, Head of Growth / Growth Leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting for Growth, Product, Design, Marketing, and other strategic functions.
• Build talent maps across target companies and identify top candidates before they enter the job market.
• Proactively headhunt passive candidates through LinkedIn, referrals, and creative outbound strategies.
• Partner with founders and hiring managers to define what great looks like for each role.
• Turn broad hiring needs into clear candidate profiles, target-company lists, and sourcing plans.
• Build personalized outreach that yields strong candidate responses.
• Manage candidates end-to-end from outreach to interview, offer, negotiation, and close.
• Develop recruiting systems, playbooks, and dashboards as we scale.
• Use market data to challenge hiring requirements and improve decisions.
• Help hire, train, and manage additional recruiters as volume grows.

Skills

Talent acquisition

Outbound sourcing

Stakeholder management

Tools

LinkedIn Recruiter

Gem

Ashby

Greenhouse

SeekOut

HireEZ

Findem

Job description

Bidbus, Inc. is seeking a hands-on Recruiting Lead to build and own our internal recruiting engine from the ground up in Irvine, CA. You will identify exceptional talent, reach out to passive candidates, and partner directly with founders and hiring managers to define what great looks like for each role.

You’ll own full-cycle recruiting across Growth, Product, Design, Marketing, and other strategic functions, building talent maps and crafting sourcing playbooks to scale with the company’s growth.