Founding Technical Recruiter
At a glance
Mid-level Recruiting & Talent Acquisition role at F2. San Francisco · full-time · $150,000–$200,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Lead technical hiring from search kickoff to offer, putting most of your effort into finding candidates
- Create engineer pipelines and map talent by employer, technical background and location
- Agree on candidate profiles with engineering leaders, then adjust your search as you learn
- Approach sought-after engineers with tailored messages and guide candidates through interviews and closing
- Use recruiting metrics to find pipeline slowdowns and improve interview plans, systems and processes
What you bring
- At least three years of recruiting work, including meaningful hiring experience in technical roles
- A history of finding and hiring strong software engineers
- Skill in technical sourcing and reaching candidates outside the obvious profiles
- Sound judgment, strong candidate management and the ability to close hires
Who this fits
This hands-on, mid-level role suits someone who enjoys sourcing and wants to shape technical recruiting while owning searches. You’ll work directly with engineering leaders and the talent team. The position is hybrid in San Francisco; the listing also seeks someone enthusiastic about working face-to-face with the New York team.
From the employer
About F2
F2 is the AI platform transforming how private markets investors analyze deals and make investment decisions.
Private markets firms work with enormous amounts of complex, unstructured information across diligence, underwriting, portfolio monitoring, and investment workflows. F2 turns that information into actionable insights, helping investment teams work faster and make better decisions.
We work with leading financial institutions across private equity, private credit, investment banking, and asset management. F2 is backed by NFX, Y Combinator, Left Lane, Torch, and HighlandX.
We're growing quickly across New York, San Francisco, and London and are building the team to support our next stage of growth.
About the role
We’re hiring a Founding Technical Recruiter to help build the technical recruiting function at F2. You’ll partner directly with our engineering leadership and talent team to identify and hire exceptional talent across software engineering, forward deployed engineering, AI, infrastructure, and other technical roles, while helping shape the systems, processes, and recruiting strategy we use as we scale.
This is a hands-on recruiting role. You'll own searches end-to-end, but sourcing will be at the center of what you do. We're looking for someone who knows how to map technical talent markets, find exceptional engineers who aren't actively looking, and get them excited about an early-stage company.
You'll have significant ownership over some of the most important hires we make and help shape how F2 recruits technical talent as we scale.
What you'll do
Own technical searches end-to-end across Engineering and other technical functions
Build deep pipelines of exceptional passive engineering talent
Develop talent maps across target companies, technical backgrounds, and geographies
Partner closely with engineering leadership to define profiles and continuously calibrate on talent
Source and engage highly sought-after candidates through thoughtful, personalized outreach
Run a high-quality candidate process from first conversation through offer and close
Develop a strong understanding of F2's technology, product, and engineering culture and communicate that story effectively to candidates
Help hiring managers build structured interview processes and scorecards
Use recruiting data and pipeline metrics to identify bottlenecks and improve hiring velocity
Maintain an exceptional candidate experience while operating with speed
Help improve our recruiting systems, processes, and tools as we scale
What we're looking for
3+ years of recruiting experience with meaningful experience hiring technical talent
A track record of sourcing and hiring exceptional software engineers
Strong technical sourcing skills and the ability to identify great candidates beyond obvious profiles
Comfortable recruiting passive candidates in highly competitive talent markets
Strong judgment and an ability to calibrate quickly with technical hiring managers
Excellent candidate management and closing skills
Experience partnering directly with engineering leaders
Comfortable managing multiple searches and priorities in a fast-moving environment
Highly organized with strong attention to detail and follow-through
High ownership, low ego, and a willingness to jump in wherever needed
Excited to work in person with the team in New York
Nice to have
Experience recruiting at a high-growth AI, fintech, or B2B software company
Experience recruiting engineers from top-tier technology companies and high-growth startups
Experience hiring AI/ML, infrastructure, or forward deployed engineers
Experience building technical teams at an early-stage company
Familiarity with Ashby or similar modern recruiting tools
Why F2
You'll join F2 at a stage where the quality of every engineering hire matters. You'll work directly with engineering leadership, own critical searches, and have significant autonomy over how you build pipelines and attract exceptional technical talent.
We're building an ambitious engineering team around a large opportunity at the intersection of AI and financial services. If you love finding exceptional engineers, enjoy the hunt, and want real ownership over the teams you're helping build, we'd love to hear from you.