Title: Founding Recruiter

Location: San Francisco, CA (in-person, 5 days/week at our SF office)

Reporting Structure: Partner directly with founders and hiring managers

Company Description

Artie is a real-time streaming platform that moves production data across systems in real-time, with zero maintenance. We make high-volume data replication simple, reliable, and scalable for engineering teams. Our platform powers mission-critical use cases including fraud and risk monitoring, inventory visibility, customer-facing analytics, and AI workloads. Artie is built for engineers who care about performance, reliability, and operational simplicity — and we’re growing fast. We’re trusted by teams like ClickUp, Substack, and Alloy, and backed by top-tier investors including Y Combinator, General Catalyst, Pathlight Ventures, and the founders of Dropbox and Mode.

Quick facts:

• Real-time data streaming platform focused on databases and data warehouses
• Powers fraud and risk monitoring, inventory visibility, customer-facing analytics, and AI workloads
• Trusted by ClickUp, Substack, and Alloy
• Backed by Y Combinator, General Catalyst, Pathlight Ventures, and founders of Dropbox and Mode
• Built on change data capture (CDC) and stream processing to enable sub-minute latency

Responsibilities

The First In-House Recruiter will be responsible for:

• Owning full-cycle recruiting across the company
• Running end-to-end hiring for Engineering, Product, Operations, and Design roles, and supporting other roles in GTM as needed
• Partnering with founders and hiring managers to define role scope, seniority, and success criteria
• Calibrating on candidate quality and tradeoffs
• Continuously refining interview loops and hiring signals
• Managing candidates through sourcing, screening, interviews, offers, and closing
• Proactively sourcing and engaging senior technical talent (engineers, product, design) in a competitive market
• Running outbound recruiting with creativity and rigor — LinkedIn, referrals, networks, events, cold outreach, and non-obvious channels
• Confidently engaging technical candidates and speaking credibly about engineering culture and technical challenges
• Speaking credibly about Artie’s product, architecture, and roadmap (with support from founders)
• Crafting and delivering a compelling narrative around why Artie exists, why this team is special, and why this is a rare career opportunity
• Owning candidate experience end-to-end and building a world-class recruiting process that delights candidates
• Owning and evolving the recruiting process, tools, and operating rhythm
• Managing and improving the ATS and sourcing tools
• Tracking and reporting on hiring progress, pipeline health, and bottlenecks
• Continuously improving speed, quality, and candidate experience as the company scales
• Acting as the primary point of contact for external recruiting partners
• Setting expectations, role briefs, and quality bars for agencies
• Ensuring agencies augment the hiring motion rather than define it

Is this you?

• 4+ years of recruiting experience, with meaningful exposure to technical recruiting (engineering, product, design)
• Experience in early-stage startups (Series A–C preferred)
• Experience owning full-cycle recruiting without large support teams
• Able to build credibility quickly with senior technical candidates
• You view recruiting as a sales and persuasion problem
• Comfortable with outbound, rejection, and ambiguity
• Strong written and verbal communicator
• You take responsibility for outcomes, not just inputs
• You proactively identify problems and fix them
• You care deeply about quality and long-term team health
• You have a strong internal bar for talent
• You know when to push, when to pause, and when to say no
• Willing to work in-person, 5 days/week at our SF office
• Comfortable operating with speed, ambiguity, and very little structure

Preferred Qualifications

• Meaningful exposure to technical recruiting (engineering, product, design)
• Experience in early-stage startups (Series A–C preferred)
• Experience owning full-cycle recruiting without large support teams
• Strong technical intuition
• Sales mindset
• Taste, judgment, and integrity

#Perks

• Competitive salary (commensurate with experience) $180K - $205K annually and .1% - .2% equity
• Our philosophy is P75–90 for base salary and P90+ for equity compared to benchmarks
• Healthcare, 401(k) matching and Unlimited PTO
• Lunch & dinner provided
• Foundational impact: shape the team, culture, and hiring bar at Artie
• Direct founder partnership with the CEO/CTO and leadership team
• End-to-end ownership: strategy, execution, iteration
• Growth path into a Head of Talent / recruiting leader role
• High-trust environment: treated as a core operator, not a support function

About the interview

• Phone Screen call with recruiter
• Hiring manager call (30 mins)
• Working session (30 mins)
• Take home case study
• On-site