Founding Recruiter

Taxwire•New York City, NY

About The Position

Taxwire is hiring its first recruiter to own how the company finds, closes, and lands exceptional people. Reporting directly to the CEO, the recruiter will work across the business and hire for engineering, go-to-market, tax, and operations. This broad, high-ownership role includes scoping roles before they open, building recruiting systems from scratch, and owning outcomes that affect the company’s growth. Strong performance may lead to responsibility for recruiting leadership, establishing a People function, or another path within the business. The role requires persistent sourcing and outreach to senior candidates, fast-moving recruiting, and a high bar for talent. The recruiter will partner with the CEO and hiring managers to define role expectations and success measures, design interview processes, maintain candidate communication from first contact through signed offer, manage compensation and competing-offer conversations, and build systems for ATS hygiene, structured interviews, sourcing, and funnel tracking.

Requirements

3–5+ years of recruiting experience with full-cycle ownership from sourcing through close.
Track record of closing senior or technical hires in a competitive market.
Strong written communication skills.
Comfort building recruiting processes and systems from scratch.
Demonstrated ability to source proactively and persistently.
Ability to evaluate candidates’ fit and work capability, and to defend hiring assessments.
Ability to hold credible conversations with engineers, sellers, tax experts, and other candidates across the business.
Comfort with ambiguity and working without a mature recruiting organization or established playbook.
Motivation to own recruiting outcomes through signed offers and candidate starts.

Nice To Haves

Experience as an early or first recruiter at a high-growth startup.
Technical recruiting experience across engineering and product.
Hands-on experience with Ashby or a comparable applicant tracking system.
Recruiting experience in go-to-market, fintech, tax, or another complex, credibility-driven domain.

Responsibilities

Own full-cycle recruiting across engineering, go-to-market, deployments, and account management, from sourcing and screening through closing.
Conduct persistent, well-written outbound outreach to senior candidates who are not actively looking and may be difficult to reach.
Partner with the CEO and hiring managers to scope each role, define success criteria, and determine how performance will be measured.
Design interview loops and scorecards for each role and calibrate interviewers before interviews begin.
Own the candidate experience from initial outreach through signed offer, providing prompt replies and clear next steps.
Drive offers to close, including compensation discussions, competing offers, and other candidate considerations.
Build and maintain recruiting systems, including ATS hygiene, structured interviews, sourcing playbooks, and an accurate recruiting funnel.
Maintain a high hiring bar under pressure to fill roles quickly and ensure candidates who are not selected still respect Taxwire.