Founding Recruiter

This is a full-time role as a Founding Recruiter, located onsite in New York, NY.

We’re looking for a high-output, entrepreneurial recruiter to own the end-to-end hiring process at Hadrius. Your mission: bring in the top 1% of talent across sales, engineering, customer success, and operations—people who will scale with us from startup to category leader.

You’ll be the engine behind our hiring pipeline: sourcing exceptional candidates, running a world-class interview process, and ensuring every new hire raises the talent bar. This isn’t just filling seats—you’ll be building the team that builds the company.

You’ll work directly with the founding team to understand each role deeply, craft compelling job posts, and develop creative sourcing strategies to find the best people before anyone else does. We pride ourselves on a culture that rewards impact and success generously. We’re focused first and foremost on empowering each other to do our best work, today and into the future. You'll be on a team that works incredibly hard and seeks other exceptional people excited to do the same.

Responsibilities

First week:

• Learn Hadrius’s mission, culture, and the key traits that make someone successful here.
• Ramp up on our hiring process, interview loops, and ATS.
• Audit open roles and current pipeline status.
• Source your first candidates for high-priority roles.

First month:

• Own 3–5 active searches end-to-end.
• Build candidate pipelines through outbound sourcing, referrals, and inbound applications.
• Conduct first-round screens and guide candidates through the process.
• Partner with hiring managers to refine job descriptions and scorecards.
• Deliver your first hires into the team.

First 3 months & beyond:

• Consistently maintain 3–4x pipeline coverage for every open role.
• Reduce average time-to-fill by 30%+ without sacrificing quality.
• Develop and run a scalable referral program.
• Build a talent brand strategy to attract top-tier candidates proactively.
• Hire 10+ exceptional team members who raise the bar across the company.

About You

• Exceptionally skilled: You know how to find and close top talent in competitive markets.
• Coachable: You listen, adapt, and improve your approach continuously.
• Grit: You push through hard searches until you land the right hire.
• All-in: This is not a 9–5. Recruiting is a full-contact sport here.
• Talent evangelist: You believe great people are the ultimate competitive advantage.
• Creative: You use unconventional sourcing and outreach to connect with top candidates.
• Team-first: You partner closely with hiring managers and founders to hit headcount goals.

Qualifications

• 3+ years recruiting experience (in-house or agency) with a track record of hiring top talent
• Strong sourcing skills using LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search, referrals, and other tools
• Experience hiring for multiple functions in a startup environment
• Bonus points for recruiting in compliance, financial services, or SaaS
• Previous experience building hiring processes from scratch

Benefits

• 401k (100% match up to 6%)
• Destination Airbnb company work retreats 3-5 times a year
• Healthcare, dental, vision, etc.