Lead Recruiter

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27d•$140,000 - $170,000•Remote

About The Position

Launch Potato is a profitable digital media company that reaches over 30M+ monthly visitors through brands such as FinanceBuzz, All About Cookies, and OnlyInYourState. As The Discovery and Conversion Company, our mission is to connect consumers with the world’s leading brands through data-driven content and technology. Headquartered in South Florida with a remote-first team spanning over 15 countries, we’ve built a high-growth, high-performance culture where speed, ownership, and measurable impact drive success. At Launch Potato, you’ll accelerate your career by owning outcomes, moving fast, and driving impact with a global team of high-performers. The Lead Recruiter finds the talent no one else surfaces and owns the full search from first touch to close. This is a high-ownership seat for someone who wants it. You set how the search runs, you make the calls, and the results are yours. You are not a specialized cog on a big team, and you are not doing it alone. You partner with our Recruiting Ops Manager, who owns the backend operations so your time goes to what only a recruiter can do: sourcing, interviewing, and closing. She takes direction from you as you ramp, and helping her grow is part of the seat. Our hiring managers are engaged partners who act as an extension of the talent team, not gatekeepers you drag through a process. LP recruiting runs on data and structured hiring: scorecards with a real floor, behavioral interviews, and calibrated bars. Your job is to get ahead of demand, build pipeline as you search, and make the whole function sharper over time. The ownership is real, the pace is real, and the support is real. All three are true.

Requirements

6+ years of full-cycle recruiting function ownership, mostly in senior, leadership, or hard-to-fill searches.
You understand the businesses you recruit for, not just the roles. You can name a business you learned deeply and how that sharpened your calls: who you sourced, advanced, and passed on.
Sourcing as the core of the job: you consistently find and engage the top 5% in every search, inbound and outbound, including passive talent that never applies.
You have owned searches solo from first touch to close, not as a coordinator or a sourcer handing off.
You drive the pipeline yourself, without leaning on agencies.
Sharp, evidence-anchored calls on who advances and who gets rejected, and you can defend every one.
A track record as the recruiter hiring managers trust and request by name.
Reporting and analytics fluency: you build the funnel view, read conversion and time-to-fill, and turn the numbers into decisions.
Fluency with sourcing tools across inbound and outbound (Tofu, Noon.ai, JuiceBox, or comparable) and a modern ATS (Greenhouse or Ashby), plus Asana, Google Workspace, and Slack.
You use AI daily in your workflow: Anthropic’s Claude preferred, or GPT, Gemini, or others.
Structured hiring discipline: scorecards with a real floor, behavioral interviewing, deliberate bar calibration.
Strong writing: your candidate writeups are clear, structured, and anchored in evidence.

Nice To Haves

Recruiting experience for a business like ours. Launch Potato is the discovery and conversion company: we create high-value customer acquisition at scale across category-leading consumer brands in finance, travel, entertainment, and rewards. The work runs on marketing, engineering, and data science, so most of our roles are technical in some regard. This is a plus, not a requirement. What matters more is the ability to learn a business fast.

Responsibilities

Own top of funnel across inbound and outbound, driving the pool rather than waiting on applicant flow.
Build pipeline organically: as each search runs, note the standout candidates who fit a future role better and remember them when it opens.
Run searches end to end: intake, JD, sourcing, screening, panel design, and close.
Conduct video screens and structured behavioral interviews, and write evidence-anchored writeups.
Make clear advance-or-reject recommendations and defend them with evidence.
Deliver a world-class candidate experience on every search, tracked against a defined signal.
Own recruiting reporting: funnel conversion, time-to-fill, source effectiveness, pipeline health, plus the advanced metrics that make the team proactive.
Build the dashboards hiring managers and leadership use to see search status at a glance.
Forecast where a search is heading and reallocate effort before it stalls.
Set the scorecard floor per req and sharpen pre-screen rubrics and interview design so panels decide faster.
Spot and remove drag across sourcing, screening, scheduling, and debriefs, and leave behind process that outlasts you.
Partner with and direct our Recruiting Ops Manager, who owns the backend operations so search work never bottlenecks.
Coach hiring managers on structured hiring, and be the expert the business consults on how to hire.