Founding Recruiter

Blacksmith•San Francisco, CA

6d•Onsite

About The Position

At Blacksmith, we provide cloud infra to help companies run their CI (GitHub Actions) substantially faster and cheaper. Our mission is to build a CI cloud. Our bet is that CI, as a class of workloads, is ready to be unbundled from the hyperscaler clouds (AWS/GCP/Azure). This is a bold statement, and we have an ambitious roadmap ahead. Some things we're proud of We orchestrate millions of VMs for CI jobs each month over our own fleet of bare-metal hardware. We power CI for 600+ fast-growing startups like Ashby, Slope, AtoB, Pylon, Superblocks, and Finch. Founders: Aditya Maru and Aayush Shah were early systems engineers at Cockroach Labs. Aditya (JP) Jayaprakash worked on search infra and was later a founding member of the ads team at Faire. We went through Y Combinator's W24 batch and raised our seed round from Google Ventures. We're growing extremely fast and hit $1m ARR with a team of just 4 in less than 12 months.

Requirements

Have significant experience recruiting for technical roles in high-growth environments (startup or top-tier tech company).
Have personally sourced and closed senior engineers and/or early leaders. You’re comfortable owning the hardest searches yourself.
Are highly resourceful and thrive in ambiguity. You can operate without much structure and build it as you go.
Care deeply about quality, bar raising, and building durable teams, not just filling roles quickly.
Think in systems and enjoy building processes that scale (funnels, tooling, metrics, interview design).
Are a strong communicator and trusted partner to founders and hiring managers.
Have strong judgment and can push back constructively when quality or priorities are misaligned.
Are excited about being early at a company and growing into larger ownership over time.
Enjoy working in person 5 days a week in San Francisco / NYC (exceptional candidates may be considered for hybrid).

Responsibilities

Own recruiting end-to-end: sourcing, outreach, screening, interview coordination, closing, and candidate experience.
Personally source and close senior engineers and early leaders, not just manage inbound.
Partner closely with founders and hiring managers to: Define hiring profiles and quality bar Calibrate interview signal Continuously improve the hiring funnel
Build the recruiting foundation from scratch: ATS setup and hygiene Interview loops and scorecards Funnel metrics and reporting Interviewer enablement and training
Create a world-class candidate experience that reflects Blacksmith’s culture, technical depth, and ambition.
Act as a force multiplier for the founding team by removing hiring friction and increasing velocity without sacrificing quality.
Over time, help scale and lead the recruiting function as the company grows.