Recruiting Lead

Sequence Holdings • New York, NY

6d • $200,000 - $300,000

About The Position

The Recruiting Lead owns talent at Sequence end to end, including who the company hires, how it hires, and how new employees ramp. Working directly with founders and team leads, this person translates role needs into searches and personally finds and closes candidates. The role also builds and improves the recruiting system, including pipelines, interview loops, rubrics, work trials, offers, and onboarding. The Recruiting Lead shapes the candidate experience and partners on compensation, leveling, and culture as Sequence grows. Success means building a strong team and a talent engine capable of supporting the refounding of entire industries.

Requirements

• Personally recruited and closed exceptional technical and business talent at a high-growth company.
• Has an exceptional network of engineers, operators, and leaders.
• Strong sourcing ability, including creative channels, deep research, and persistent outreach.
• Strong market intelligence about talent locations, compensation, and candidate motivations, and the ability to apply it to hiring strategy and offers.
• Able to operate in ambiguity, define undefined roles, and determine who to hire and why.
• Tenacious and driven to land the right candidates.
• Has built a recruiting function, process, or team from zero to one.
• Strong communication skills, including selling candidates on Sequence’s thesis, communicating effectively with engineers, and giving founders clear assessments of candidates.
• Thinks in systems and improves broken processes using AI and tooling.
• Candidate-focused and able to understand the priorities of top candidates and earn their trust.

Responsibilities

• Own talent at Sequence end to end, including hiring strategy, recruiting, and employee ramp-up.
• Work with founders and team leads to understand role needs and determine what candidates must accomplish.
• Personally run searches and find and close exceptional candidates.
• Build and improve recruiting pipelines, interview loops, rubrics, work trials, offers, and onboarding.
• Shape how Sequence presents itself to candidates.
• Partner on compensation, leveling, and culture as the team grows.
• Use AI and tooling to improve hiring systems and processes over time.

What This Job Offers

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