Recruiting Lead

Sequence Holdings; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Sequence Holdings LLC in New York, NY seeks a Recruiting Lead to build and run the talent engine for refounding industries with AI-driven operations. You’ll own hires from search to close, work directly with founders, and design the interview process, rubrics, and onboarding to scale rapidly.

You’ll partner on compensation, leveling and culture as the team expands, aiming to attract exceptional technical and business talent for fast-growth initiatives.

Qualifications

• Proven record of building teams at high-growth companies.
• Strong networks with engineers, operators and leaders.
• Experience recruiting technical and business talent end to end.
• Demonstrated ability to run sourcing campaigns and close hires.
• Awareness of comp, leveling and culture dynamics in tech.
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity and scale processes.
• Experience establishing recruiting pipelines and interview rubrics.
• Ability to sell the Sequence thesis to candidates and founders.
• Comfort using AI/tools to improve hiring efficiency.
• Bias toward action with rigorous stakeholder collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end talent strategy for Sequence refounding efforts.
• Run searches, assess candidates, and close exceptional hires.
• Build the pipeline, interview loops, rubrics, work trials and offers.
• Shape candidate experience, comp, leveling and culture as the team grows.

Skills

Candidate Obsession

Team Building

Networking

Elite Sourcer

Market Intelligence

Ambiguity Tolerance

Grit Tenacity

Zero-to-One Recruiting

Clear Communicator

Systems Thinking

Job description

About Sequence

Sequence acquires established businesses in the service economy and refounds them as market leaders. Refounding means rebuilding a business around what is now possible with AI, combining its existing strengths with new ways of operating. We bring capital, engineering and operational expertise, working alongside each company’s leaders and employees. At the center is Atlas, our shared technology platform. What we build and learn in one business strengthens Atlas for the next. Based in New York City, Sequence is backed by 8VC, Conviction, Lux Capital and other strategic partners.

What You Will Do

The Recruiting Lead builds the team that refounds industries. You’ll own talent at Sequence end to end: who we hire, how we hire them, and how they ramp once they’re here. You’ll work directly with our founders and team leads to understand what each role needs to accomplish, then find and close the people who can do it. That means running searches yourself, not just managing a process. You’ll also build the system behind it: the pipeline, interview loops, rubrics, work trials, offers and onboarding that let us hire exceptional people quickly and consistently. You’ll shape how Sequence shows up to candidates, and partner on comp, leveling and culture as the team grows. People are central to how Sequence creates value. Ultimately, success means building a team and a talent engine that can carry the refounding of entire industries.

What We Look For

• Candidate obsession. Treats every candidate like a customer, knows what top people care about, and earns their trust.
• A track record of building teams. Has personally recruited and closed exceptional technical and business talent at a high-growth company.
• Exceptional network. Knows top engineers, operators and leaders, and gets a reply when they reach out.
• Elite sourcer. Finds great people before anyone else does, using creative channels, deep research and persistent outreach.
• Strong market intelligence. Knows where top talent sits, what they’re paid and what makes them move, and uses that to shape our hiring strategy and offers.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity. Can take an undefined role, talk to the people who need it, and work out who to hire and why.
• Raw horsepower and tenacity. Will run through walls to land the right person.
• Proven ability to build from zero to one. Has stood up a recruiting function, process or team where none existed.
• Strong communicator. Can sell a candidate on Sequence’s thesis, hold their own with engineers, and give founders a clear read on any hire.
• Systems thinker. Sees a broken process as something to fix, and uses AI and tooling to make hiring better every quarter.

Compensation Range: $200K - $300K