TL;DR: We're looking for a founding recruiter to build the team that builds Ropes, hiring the engineers, sellers, and operators who will transform how the $4T+ contingent workforce industry. About Ropes Ropes is building a new way for companies to hire talent, starting with anti-fraud technology and better skill-based interviews. We help staffing and recruiting firms fight fraud, identify top talent, and confidently market that talent to Fortune 500 companies and the top employers in the world. Company highlights: - Talent-dense, capable team: We're a team of 10 from Penn, Stanford, Waterloo, Retool, MongoDB, and top tech companies with seed-stage headcount and Series A-type metrics - Well-capitalized: $3.1M seed round led by GSV Ventures & Boxgroup with angels from OpenAI, SpaceX, Retool, and more - Traction: We've flown past 7 figures in revenue, with dozens of enterprise staffing customers including the largest staffing firm in the world - Market opportunity: Our customers are the premier firms of the $600B+ staffing industry. We're working to reinvent how that market operates from the ground up What You'll Do: - Own full-cycle recruiting across engineering, GTM, and operations, from sourcing through close - Build our hiring infrastructure from scratch: interview processes, scorecards, pipeline tracking, and employer brand - Partner directly with the CEO and founding team to define roles, calibrate on talent bar, and move fast on top candidates - Source and close exceptional technical and commercial talent in one of the most competitive hiring markets in the world - Bring a recruiter's lens to the product itself. You'll have direct input into how Ropes thinks about candidate evaluation because you live it every day Who You Are: - You're more interested in building a company's foundation than filling reqs at scale - You have 2 to 5 years of experience in technical recruiting or talent acquisition at an early-stage or growth-stage B2B software company - You've hired engineers and know how to evaluate technical talent, speak credibly with candidates about the stack, and sell a vision when the company is still small - You're a strong sourcer who doesn't wait for applicants. You build pipeline through outbound, referrals, events, and creative channels - You're organized, fast-moving, and obsessive about candidate experience from first touch to offer close - You've operated in an environment where recruiting wasn't a department. It was just you (or close to it) Why Ropes: - Early impact: You'll hire the people who define what Ropes becomes. Every seat matters at this stage - Ownership: This isn't a role where you execute a hiring plan someone else wrote. You'll shape the team, the process, and the culture from the ground up - Growth trajectory: High performers will have a clear path to Head of Talent as we scale from 10 to 50+ - Product influence: You're not just recruiting for a hiring platform. Your recruiting experience will directly inform how we build the product This is an on-site role in New York City, designed for recruiters who want to build a team from scratch and have a lasting impact on the company they help create.