Founding Technical Recruiter
At a glance
Mid-level Recruiting & Talent Acquisition role at Town.com, Inc. San Francisco · full-time · $150,000–$200,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Run technical searches from finding candidates through closing, especially for staff backend, AI product, growth and related engineering roles
- Give candidates fast, thoughtful communication throughout the process, making each interaction personal and clear
- Maintain hiring systems, interview processes and evaluation standards so teams can move quickly and learn from results
- Use Town’s product to make candidate sourcing, outreach and scheduling more efficient
What you bring
- At least four years handling technical hiring end to end, including a record of bringing in staff-level engineers
- Enough technical fluency to discuss engineering work credibly and distinguish meaningful resume evidence
- Strong writing and candidate communication, with warmth and precision
- Hands-on experimentation with AI to improve your recruiting work
Who this fits
This role suits a recruiter who enjoys both building a candidate pipeline and developing relationships through difficult closes. You’ll work closely with founders and company leaders while personally leading important searches. The job is based in San Francisco and requires in-person work at the office five days a week.
From the employer
About Town
Town is an applied AI company building a powerful assistant that makes it easy for anyone to create and use software in their everyday work. Town starts from who you are — it builds a persistent model of your voice, judgment, relationships, and priorities, and does real work on your behalf across email, calendar, docs, Slack, and CRM. It doesn't wait to be prompted: it observes, learns, and acts.
Town was founded by Jean-Denis Greze (CEO), former CTO of Plaid, and Tony Vincent (CPO), former Director of Applied AI Product at Google. We recently raised a $55M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Forerunner Ventures, First Round Capital, Alt Capital, and Conviction. We're in-person in San Francisco's Financial District, five days a week.
About the Role
At a company of our size and stage, the caliber of the team is one of the highest leverage focus areas. Every hire impacts the average, and the bar is deliberately, uncomfortably high. We're hiring our founding technical recruiter to own how Town finds, engages, and closes the engineers who will define the company.
You'll partner closely with the founders and other leaders across the company to personally carry our most important technical searches, and to build the machine underneath them so a small team can hire like a much larger one.
What you'll own
Full-cycle technical recruiting. From sourcing to closing and everything in between, across engineering (staff backend, AI product, growth etc.), likely with some product & design as well.
The candidate experience. High-touch, swift, thoughtful, and human at every touchpoint. You're often an individual's first touchpoint with Town, and you know how important candidate experience is to building an exceptional company & culture.
Helping build the systems. The interview loops and evaluation criteria are largely in place - our HMs are tentured and know what good looks like. But you'll help build and maintain the infrastructure that allows us to move fast, get high signal, recognize patterns and improve how we do things.
Recruit for Town on Town. You'll get to know and leverage our product intimately to make sourcing, outreach, and coordination dramatically more efficient. Working at a company where you're one of the core ICPs is an incredible advantage, and you'll be expected to leverage it and make us better.
You might thrive in this role if you...
Have 4+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, with a track record hiring staff-level engineers (backend, AI/ML, infra, or similar) - ideally at a high-growth start-up
Get joy across the recruiting lifecycle. You know what it takes to build strong top of funnel, and you enjoy building the relationships that get the toughest closes over the line.
Know enough to be dangerous when conversing with top technical talent. You can hold a credible conversation about what an engineer actually does, and tell signal from noise on a resume.
Operate with high agency. You find the work and own the outcome. You decide at 70%, not 90%, and correct as you go.
Write exceptionally well and represent Town with warmth and precision to every candidate.
Are AI-curious at a minimum. You've experimented with how AI can make you a better recruiter, and want to use AI to make yourself more effective.
Get energy from working with people in person. We're 5x per week at our office in SF.
Location
San Francisco, CA — five days a week in-person at our Financial District office (near the Montgomery BART/Muni stop).