Founding Head of Recruiting

HiringCafe•Cupertino, CA

About The Position

Hiring.Cafe is building a 100x better job search engine that is fast, comprehensive, honest, and actually useful. We index millions of jobs, remove noise, rank what matters, and help people find real opportunities without dark patterns, ads, or pay-to-win placement. We are funded by top-tier investors in Silicon Valley, along with angel investments from former leadership and directors at Indeed and ZipRecruiter. In 12 months, we grew from 0 to 1 million+ monthly active users with a $0 marketing budget. We are looking for a founding team member to help take us from 1M to 10M+ MAUs. The role involves architecting, building, and executing an elite talent acquisition engine, heavily focused on sourcing, closing, and retaining top-tier, high-impact talent across engineering, product, and growth. This is a deeply strategic and resourceful recruiting leadership role requiring extreme grit and startup hustle to build something massive. You will work hand-in-hand with the founders to design hiring pipelines, craft employer branding, and drive aggressive outbound sourcing, while also handling day-to-day full-cycle recruiting.

Requirements

Elite Sourcing & Assessment Expertise: Understands what top 1% talent looks like.
Highly strategic recruiting approach.
Ability to speak the same language as engineers when assessing candidates and selling the technical vision.
Extreme Grit and Hustle: Relentless, moves fast, and thrives in a high-intensity startup environment.
Mastery of Candidate Psychology & Closing: Intuitively understands what drives top performers and knows how to structure offers, handle objections, and close highly sought-after candidates flawlessly.
Proven Talent-Building Chops: Knows how to identify passive candidates, design high-converting outreach strategies, and build an incredible team without relying solely on inbound applications or expensive agencies.
True Ownership: Identifies pipeline bottlenecks, optimizes interview processes, and executes autonomously.
Passionate About Team Scale: Obsessed with pipeline efficiency, close rates, time-to-hire metrics, and scaling an elite organization.

Responsibilities

Architect, build, and execute an elite talent acquisition engine.
Focus on sourcing, closing, and retaining top-tier, high-impact talent across engineering, product, and growth.
Design hiring pipelines.
Craft employer branding.
Drive aggressive outbound sourcing.
Handle day-to-day full-cycle recruiting.
Identify pipeline bottlenecks.
Optimize interview processes.
Execute autonomously to fill critical gaps.
Obsess over pipeline efficiency, close rates, and time-to-hire metrics.
Scale an elite organization from the ground up without compromising on quality.