About the company
Our client is a fast-growing software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Act as the first internal recruiting hire, leading engineering hiring from sourcing through offer acceptance and later widening to other departments. Approach each search like a measurable funnel, creating scoring, outreach and reporting tools while working side by side with technical leadership and the founders.
What you'll do
- Partner with the CTO to turn the hiring bar into a written standard and score candidate profiles against it before interviews.
- Build and refresh a large, enriched pool of engineering candidates, including people who would need to relocate.
- Run personalized outreach at scale, review results daily, and retain the messaging that performs best.
- Conduct phone screens and advise the CTO on who should move on to the programming screen.
- Keep every candidate moving with scheduled next steps, fast turnaround and clear updates.
- Prepare the founders for closing conversations with candidate background, motivations, relocation details and compensation talking points.
- Publish a weekly dashboard covering pool size, outreach activity, replies, screens, onsites, offers, accepts and time spent in each stage.
- Grow into owning the wider hiring plan across several other business functions.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Background as an internal, end-to-end technical recruiter within a product-focused employer, or a transition into recruiting from an engineering, product or operations role with strong daily use of AI tools.
- Track record of owning a headcount goal at an early-stage startup.
- Experience persuading engineers to accept roles that require full-time presence in an office.
- Ability to walk through funnel metrics from a past search, from sourced candidates through to accepts and time to fill.
- Hands-on experience using AI models in automated workflows and building recruiting tooling and data pipelines, for example with Python and SQL.
- Ability to work on-site five days a week in Los Angeles, with relocation support available.
Bonus points
- Ties to Southern California.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 165,000 to 180,000 per year
- Equity
Location and work model
- Los Angeles, CA, United States
- On-site, 5 days per week in office
- Full-time
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