Founding Technical Recruiter

Pensive

San Francisco, CAJobPosted 1mo agoStill listed 5 days ago

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Compensation

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Location

San Francisco, CA

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Job overview

The founding Technical Recruiter will build and own the technical hiring function, defining roles, sourcing and placing exceptional engineers, and shaping recruiting strategy, processes, systems, and tooling as the company scales.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

SourcingRecruitment StrategiesAdaptabilityAutomationTechnical RecruitingAIRecruiting Tools

Qualifications

1+ Year Technical Recruiting ExperienceCS Degree or Prior Software Engineering ExperienceExperience Working at a Recruiting Agency

Full job description

About the Role We’re looking for a founding Technical Recruiter to build and own our technical hiring function, both for our internal team and for our partner companies through Builders, a talent platform of Pensive. In this role, you’ll work directly with the founders of Pensive and the founders of our partner companies, from defining roles and sourcing exceptional candidates to closing offers. Your job is to help us hire and place exceptional engineers quickly while delivering a thoughtful, high-quality candidate experience. Because this is a founding role, you’ll also help shape our recruiting strategy, processes, systems, and tooling as the company grows.

Who You Are

1+ year of technical recruiting experience at a fast-growing technology company or a top recruiting agency.
Strong grasp of technical skills, engineering roles, and how engineering organizations work.
A proven closer who has landed senior and staff-level engineers in competitive markets, and can clearly explain how.
Comfortable with speed and ambiguity. Priorities shift, roles evolve, and the hiring bar keeps moving, and you adapt without losing momentum.
Autonomous and decisive. You can operate as a team of one, make trade-offs without hand-holding, and iterate quickly.
Comfortable using AI, automation, and new tools to improve sourcing, evaluation, and recruiting workflows.

Nice to Have

Experience working at a recruiting agency.
CS degree or prior software engineering experience.
Experience with AI-native or agentic recruiting tools.

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