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Founding Recruiter at Artie | Y Combinator
www.ycombinator.comAbout Artie
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.
We’re hiring our first in-house recruiter to own and build talent at Artie. This role is your chance to build our team from first principles.
About the Role
This is not a coordination role and not a “run the ATS” job.
You will be responsible for end-to-end recruiting across the company, with a focus on Engineering, Product, Operations, and Design (EPOD). You’ll partner directly with founders and hiring managers, define what “great” looks like for each role, and build the recruiting foundation we scale on top of.
You will also be the internal owner for our external recruiting partners — setting strategy, calibrating quality, and ensuring agencies complement our in-house motion.
If you view recruiting as a mix of sales, systems thinking, storytelling, and judgment, this role is for you.
This is a high-trust, high-ownership role, and you’ll have real influence over the shape, culture, and trajectory of the company.
What you’ll do
Own full-cycle recruiting across the company
Run end-to-end hiring for Engineering, Product, Operations, and Design roles, and support other roles in GTM as needed
Partner with founders and hiring managers to:
Define role scope, seniority, and success criteria
Calibrate on candidate quality and tradeoffs
Continuously refine interview loops and hiring signals
Manage candidates through sourcing, screening, interviews, offers, and closing
Be the engine for technical hiring
Proactively source and engage senior technical talent (engineers, product, design) in a competitive market
Run outbound recruiting with creativity and rigor — LinkedIn, referrals, networks, events, cold outreach, and non-obvious channels
Confidently engage technical candidates and speak credibly about:
Engineering culture and technical challenges
Artie’s product, architecture, and roadmap (with support from founders)
Sell Artie to candidates
Craft and deliver a compelling narrative around:
Why Artie exists
Why this team is special
Why this is a rare career opportunity
Own candidate experience end-to-end - build a world-class recruiting process that delights candidates
Build recruiting infrastructure from scratch
Own and evolve our recruiting process, tools, and operating rhythm
Manage and improve our ATS and sourcing tools
Track and report on hiring progress, pipeline health, and bottlenecks
Continuously improve speed, quality, and candidate experience as we scale
Manage external recruiting partners
Act as the primary point of contact for agencies we work with
Set expectations, role briefs, and quality bars
Ensure agencies augment our hiring motion rather than define it
What we’re looking for
Recruiting mastery in early-stage environments
4+ years of recruiting experience, with meaningful exposure to:
Technical recruiting (engineering, product, design)
Early-stage startups (Series A–C preferred)
Experience owning full-cycle recruiting without large support teams
Strong technical intuition
You don’t need to code, but you can recruit engineers
Able to build credibility quickly with senior technical candidates
Sales mindset
You view recruiting as a sales and persuasion problem
Comfortable with outbound, rejection, and ambiguity
Strong written and verbal communicator
Extreme ownership
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
Taste, judgment, and integrity
You have a strong internal bar for talent
You know when to push, when to pause, and when to say no
Logistics
Willing to work in-person, 5 days/week at our SF office
Comfortable operating with speed, ambiguity, and very little structure
What you’ll get
Foundational impact: You will shape the team, culture, and hiring bar at Artie
Direct founder partnership: Work closely with the CEO/CTO and leadership team
End-to-end ownership: Strategy, execution, iteration — all yours
Growth path: Opportunity to grow into a Head of Talent / recruiting leader as we scale
High trust environment: You’ll be treated as a core operator, not a support function
Compensation & Benefits
Competitive salary (commensurate with experience) - our philosophy is P75-90 for base salary and P90+ for equity compared to benchmarks
Healthcare, 401(k) matching, unlimited PTO
Lunch & dinner provided
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