Head of Recruiting & Talent Strategy (Startup)

Lumaril Corporation; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Daily lunch at the office

Team colocation every six weeks

Fully paid medical, dental, and vision

401k through Betterment

Job summary

Lumaril is seeking a senior recruiter to build the team behind its AI-powered industrial autonomy platform. You will own full-cycle recruiting across engineering, business development, and operations, partnering with the founding team to define strategy, sourcing, interviewing, and onboarding.

This generalist, high-ownership role requires experience in technical, hardware, or deep-tech environments and the ability to create a hiring engine from scratch while moving at startup speed and shaping

Qualifications

• 5-8+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally in-house at an early-stage or high-growth startup.
• Experience recruiting for technical, engineering, or hardware roles (you don’t need to be a specialist technical recruiter, but you’re fluent enough to evaluate resumes, run intake with engineering leaders, and speak credibly to technical candidates).
• Experience running or contributing to a college recruiting pipeline.
• Experience working with and managing contract headhunters or outside recruiting agencies.
• Demonstrated success sourcing and closing niche or passive talent in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
• High ownership mentality; comfortable being the first and only recruiter, building process rather than inheriting it.
• Strong communication skills and confidence engaging with founders and senior leadership as true hiring partners.

Responsibilities

• Manage full-cycle recruiting end to end: intake with hiring managers, sourcing strategy, pipeline management, interview coordination, and closing.
• Recruit across a wide range of roles and disciplines, from early-career to senior technical, business development, and operations hires.
• Build structured, consistent interview and evaluation processes that still move at startup speed.
• Deliver an excellent candidate experience from first outreach through offer, representing Lumaril’s culture and mission at every touchpoint.
• Develop creative, proactive sourcing strategies, including cold outreach, targeted campaigns, and non-traditional channels, to reach passive candidates.
• Build and run a college recruiting pipeline for early-career engineering and BD talent.
• Identify, vet, and manage relationships with contract headhunters and outside recruiting agencies, and know when to bring them in versus source directly.
• Build early relationships and networks in engineering, technical, and hardware talent pools relevant to industrial autonomy and AI.
• Partner closely with founders and hiring managers to translate ambiguous hiring needs into clear role scopes, leveling, and comp frameworks.
• Build the early recruiting playbook: ATS workflows, sourcing templates, interview guides, and hiring metrics.
• Represent Lumaril at recruiting and industry events to build pipeline and strengthen employer brand.
• Use data and candidate feedback to continuously improve time-to-fill, pipeline quality, and process.

Job description

Lumaril is seeking a senior recruiter to build the team behind its AI-powered industrial autonomy platform. You will own full-cycle recruiting across engineering, business development, and operations, partnering with the founding team to define strategy, sourcing, interviewing, and onboarding.

This generalist, high-ownership role requires experience in technical, hardware, or deep-tech environments and the ability to create a hiring engine from scratch while moving at startup speed and shaping