Associate Recruiter

Planhat • Pacific Palisades, CA

15h

About The Position

Planhat is hiring an Associate Recruiter to support hiring across the Americas. This entry-level opportunity is centered on sourcing and coordination and offers real responsibility from day one, with a path toward becoming a full recruiter. The Associate Recruiter will work alongside experienced GTM recruiters, gain exposure to the full recruiting lifecycle, and build the skills needed to own roles.

The role involves finding candidates for commercial and operations positions, managing candidate pipelines, coordinating interviews across hubs and time zones, supporting outbound recruiting campaigns, developing talent benches for future openings, and contributing to employer-brand and candidate-experience improvements. Success means maintaining organized pipelines and seamless coordination, surfacing strong candidates, earning the trust of recruiters and hiring managers, and steadily taking on more responsibility.

Requirements

• Genuine hunger to learn and grow; no prior recruiting experience is required.
• 0 to 2 years of experience in recruiting, sourcing, coordination, sales, or a similar people-facing role.
• Experience with or willingness to learn the Ashby ATS.
• A no-excuses mindset and drive to go beyond obvious channels to find strong candidates.
• A strong academic background, usually accompanied by standout extracurricular achievements such as competitive sports.
• Genuine interest in AI, SaaS, and the technology industry.
• Curiosity about people, strong organization and attention to detail, comfort with technology, initiative and collaboration, and clear, warm, professional communication.

Responsibilities

• Source and identify top candidates across the Americas for commercial and operations roles using LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean searches, and creative outreach channels.
• Manage candidate pipelines in Ashby by keeping stages current, scheduling interviews, sending communications, and ensuring candidates do not fall through the cracks.
• Coordinate interviews across multiple hubs and time zones.
• Support recruiters with outbound campaigns, InMail drafting, and candidate research.
• Build and maintain talent bench pipelines for roles that are not yet open but may open in the future.
• Contribute to employer-brand initiatives and candidate-experience improvements.

Benefits

• Performance bonuses
• Long-term incentives
• Generous PTO policy

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed