Recruiting Lead

Sequence Holdings • New York City, NY

4d

About The Position

Sequence acquires established businesses in the service economy and refounds them as market leaders by combining their existing strengths with AI-enabled operations. The company brings capital, engineering, and operational expertise and builds Atlas, a shared technology platform that supports learning across its businesses. Sequence is based in New York City and is backed by 8VC, Conviction, Lux Capital, and other strategic partners.

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 determines what each role needs to accomplish and personally runs searches to find and close candidates. The role also builds the recruiting infrastructure—including pipelines, interview loops, rubrics, work trials, offers, and onboarding—to enable exceptional, consistent hiring at speed. The Recruiting Lead shapes the candidate experience and partners on compensation, leveling, and culture as the team grows. Success means building a team and 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, using creative channels, research, and persistent outreach.
• Strong market intelligence about talent locations, compensation, and candidate motivations, and ability to apply it to hiring strategy and offers.
• Can operate in ambiguity and define hiring needs for undefined roles by consulting relevant stakeholders.
• Demonstrates tenacity in landing candidates.
• Has built a recruiting function, process, or team from zero to one.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to sell candidates on Sequence’s thesis, communicate effectively with engineers, and provide founders with clear assessments of candidates.
• Thinks systematically about recruiting processes and can identify and fix process problems.
• Candidate-focused approach and ability to earn candidates’ trust.

Responsibilities

• Own talent at Sequence end to end, including hiring strategy, recruiting, and employee ramp-up.
• Work with founders and team leads to define role outcomes and determine whom to hire.
• Personally run searches and find and close candidates.
• Build recruiting systems and processes, including 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 processes over time.

What This Job Offers

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