Recruiter

Mirage; New York (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401K with employer match

Commuter benefits

Lunch stipend

Grubhub subscription

Wellness perks

Team offsites

Generous PTO

Job summary

Mirage, based in New York City, seeks a Business Recruiter to support hiring across Product, Design, and business teams. You will partner with hiring managers and the recruiting team to understand needs, build candidate pipelines, and bring exceptional talent to Mirage.

The role requires autonomy to own several searches from kickoff to close, working with the Head of Talent to sharpen sourcing, assessment, and closing skills.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in recruiting or sourcing.
• Ability to build strong relationships with candidates, managers, and teammates.
• Strong communication, organization, and follow-through with proactive learning.

Responsibilities

• Manage assigned searches from kickoff through offer acceptance.
• Partner with hiring managers to clarify needs and align on interview plans.
• Build strong candidate pipelines through outreach, referrals, and inbound applications.
• Conduct recruiter screens to assess experience and motivations; keep candidates engaged.
• Gather interview feedback, debriefs, and manage offers with senior teammates on complex cases.
• Maintain ATS records and use data to improve search execution; flag challenges early.
• Help build AI agent workflows to automate recruiting tasks and improve efficiency.

Skills

Sourcing

Candidate relations

Interviewing

Communication

Organization

Feedback incorporation

Startup experience

Job description

Mirage is an AI video company focused on making creation dramatically easier. Our team tackles some of the hardest creative and technical challenges in generative media.

We get to rethink how people collaborate with AI that can actually do creative work with them—defining entirely new interaction paradigms for AI-native video tools. We make that possible by building multimodal agents that turn creative direction into edits, rendering engines that composite multiple layers of video and graphics, and generative video models trained from the ground up that create new media when needed.

All of this comes together in Captions, our creative workspace for generating, editing, and designing video. The technology behind Captions is now available more broadly: Tesseract gives any AI agent native video-editing capabilities, while developers can integrate our models into their own products through APIs.

Captions — Our flagship creative workspace

Tesseract — Our professional video engine for AI agents

Research — The foundation models we build in-house

Updates — The latest from Mirage

TechCrunch, Forbes, Fast Company — Press

We’re very fortunate to have some the best investors and entrepreneurs backing us, including Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Uncommon Projects, Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger, Lenny Rachitsky, Antoine Martin, Julie Zhuo, Ben Rubin, Jaren Glover, SVAngel, 20VC, Ludlow Ventures, Chapter One, and more.

Please note that most of our roles will require you to be in-person at our NYC HQ (located in Union Square)

About the role

We’re looking for a Business Recruiter to support hiring across Mirage’s Product, Design, and business teams, including Marketing, Finance, People, and Operations. You’ll partner with hiring managers and our recruiting team to understand hiring needs, build candidate pipelines, and help bring exceptional talent to Mirage.

This role is for someone with a strong foundation in recruiting who’s ready to deepen their full-cycle experience and sharpen their craft. You’ll independently own a handful of searches from kickoff through close, while partnering with our Head of Talent and Recruiting Lead to sharpen your sourcing, candidate assessment, and closing skills. We’re looking for someone who learns quickly, takes initiative, and applies feedback to continually improve their craft.

Responsibilities

• Manage a handful of assigned searches from kickoff through offer acceptance, keeping each search organized and moving forward.
• Partner with hiring managers to clarify hiring needs, align on candidate profiles and evaluation criteria, and establish effective interview plans.
• Build strong candidate pipelines through personalized outreach, referrals, networking, and inbound applications, adjusting your approach based on results.
• Conduct recruiter screens to assess relevant experience and motivations, and keep candidates informed, prepared, and engaged throughout the process.
• Gather timely interview feedback, facilitate thoughtful debriefs, and manage offer conversations, partnering with senior teammates on complex assessments or negotiations.
• Maintain accurate ATS records, use pipeline data and feedback to improve search execution, and flag challenges early with recommended next steps.
• Help the recruiting team build and refine AI agent workflows that automate repetitive tasks, streamline recruiting operations, and make processes more consistent and efficient.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in recruiting or sourcing, with hands‑on experience sourcing candidates, managing offers, or closing hires.
• Ability to build strong relationships with candidates, hiring managers, and teammates.
• Strong communication, organization, and follow‑through, with a proactive approach to learning and incorporating feedback.
• Humility and self‑awareness, with openness to feedback, a willingness to ask questions, and a commitment to learning from others.
• Startup experience is a strong plus!

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
• 401K with employer match
• Commuter Benefits
• Catered lunch multiple days per week
• Dinner stipend every night if you're working late and want a bite!
• Grubhub subscription
• Health & Wellness Perks
• Multiple team offsites per year with team events every month
• Generous PTO policy

Captions provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Please note benefits apply to full time employees only.

Compensation Range: $100K - $140K