Recruiter

Mintlify; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity/Compensation

20 days PTO

Health, dental, vision

Wellness stipend

Uber/transport

Free meals

Annual offsite

Job summary

Mintlify is hiring its second Talent team member to build the recruiting foundation for our next growth phase. You’ll own the full-cycle recruiting process, collaborating directly with the founders and hiring managers to refine job descriptions, interview processes, and rubrics.

You’ll source passive candidates, nurture relationships, and close critical hires while upholding Mintlify’s culture and pace. You’ll report to the Talent Team and help scale a small, high-ownership function that aligns

Qualifications

• 1–3+ years of full-cycle recruiting in Seed–Series D startups with high talent bars.
• Proven ability to source passive candidates and achieve high response rates.
• Concise, warm, creative communication with strong A/B testing for conversions.
• Ownership of end-to-end recruiting from strategy to execution.
• Ability to move quickly across multiple searches while aligning with stakeholders.
• Interest in broad breadth of recruiting and selling opportunities to candidates.

Responsibilities

• Lead full-lifecycle recruiting for multiple roles across the company.
• Collaborate with founders and hiring managers to refine job descriptions and interview processes.
• Educate teams on interviewing best practices and develop hiring rubrics.
• Own passive pipeline sourcing and determine when to involve others.
• Build trust with candidates and close critical hires, aligning expectations.
• Leverage recruiting metrics to optimize time-to-hire while preserving candidate experience.
• Represent Mintlify culture in every interaction with candidates and partners.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Sourcing passive talent

Candidate outreach

Stakeholder management

Hiring process design

Time-to-hire optimization

Generalist recruiting

Sales/offer negotiation

Job description

• Massive reach: Our docs platform serves 100 million+ developers every year and powers documentation for 20,000+ companies, including Anthropic, Microsoft, PayPal, Spotify, Coinbase, X, and over 20% of the last YC batch.
• Small team, huge impact: We recently passed 65 employees and raised a $45 million Series B led by A16Z and Salesforce Ventures. Each new hire has a huge impact on shaping the company's trajectory.
• Culture of slope over y-intercept: We value learning velocity, grit, and unapologetically unique personalities.

Why Mintlify?

• Massive reach: Our docs platform serves 100 million+ developers every year and powers documentation for 20,000+ companies, including Anthropic, Microsoft, PayPal, Spotify, Coinbase, X, and over 20% of the last YC batch.
• Small team, huge impact: We recently passed 65 employees and raised a $45 million Series B led by A16Z and Salesforce Ventures. Each new hire has a huge impact on shaping the company's trajectory.
• Culture of slope over y-intercept: We value learning velocity, grit, and unapologetically unique personalities.

We grew in value faster than headcount and we’re looking to align the two quickly.

Fresh off our Series B, Mintlify is growing. We're hiring our second Talent team member, someone who will help us build the recruiting foundation for the next stage of the company.

What you’ll work on here

• Driving and leading the full-lifecycle recruitment process from initial outreach to close for several key roles across the company.
• Working directly with founders and hiring managers across the organization iterating job descriptions, requirements, and interview processes.
• You influence and educate hiring teams on interviewing best practices, building out hiring rubrics, and devising questions.
• Taking full ownership of sourcing passive leads for your pipelines as needed and knowing when to ask for additional resources (whether retained, contingency, or getting help from the hiring team)
• Fostering trust-based relationships with candidates, gaining a close understanding of what motivates them most, and using that to close our most critical hires.
• Using recruiting metrics to drive your activity, presenting findings to hiring managers, creatively experimenting, and rapidly iterating to shorten time-to-hire, without any sacrifices to candidate experience.
• Embodying the Mintlify culture throughout every interaction you have - whether it be candidates, agencies, customers, or any other stakeholders.

What you bring to the table

• 1-3+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience in a Seed - Series D startup with a high talent bar
• Strong record of performance in sourcing and hiring passive talent, with high response rates to outbound copy and a passion for sourcing.
• Your communication is concise, warm, and creative enough to out-compete bigger brands - while also relentlessly A/B testing to improve conversion rates
• You take ownership across the full recruiting function - from high-leverage hiring strategy to the operational work that keeps things running.
• No task feels beneath you, and you move with urgency across multiple searches without dropping the ball on stakeholder alignment
• You thrive as a generalist and excited by the opportunity to build breadth, rather than viewing it as a problem to route around.
• You know how to sell. You can navigate competing offers, close candidates, and get to yes without overselling what the role isn't.

Bonus Points

• Worked closely with a Head of Talent through major growth phases, with exposure to the strategic decisions behind how a recruiting function is built and scaled.
• You know how to use AI tools to remove tedious work without reducing the quality of candidate experience
• You know how to speak engineer's language, differentiate strong from exceptional candidates, and find talent others overlook.

Why you should join our Talent team

This is a rare seat to join a startup fresh off a Series B.

Talent isn't a talking point for us - it's what our team voted as the single most critical point to protect as we scale. As our second Talent hire, you'd be directly responsible for ensuring we actually uphold that.

You'll work directly with our founders and hiring managers, with a scope that shifts to wherever the business needs you most. We're building a small, high-ownership talent team - one that's closely looped into company decisions and has a real seat at the table.

You’ll start as a generalist, and grow into whatever vertical makes sense as we scale.

Company Benefits:

• Competitive compensation and equity
• 20 days paid time off every year
• 401k or RRSP
• $420/month wellness stipend
• 100% coverage for Health, dental, vision
• Free Ubers to and from work
• Free lunch and dinners
• Annual team offsite (previously went to Alaska, Hawaii)

Compensation Range: $145K - $175K