Founding Recruiting Lead

Mach9
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 80,000 - 150,000 annuallyFunction: People, HR & TalentSkills: ["Communication","Relationship-building","Sourcing","Attention to detail","Organization"]

As Founding Recruiter at Mach9, you will own full-cycle recruiting across technical and non-technical roles, craft an exceptional candidate experience, build recruiting infrastructure from scratch, partner closely with founders to shape hiring strategy, and track key metrics to optimize time-to-fill and offer acceptance while shaping the company’s employer brand.

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Mach9
Mach9
2 months ago

Founding Recruiting Lead

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Job Summary

As Founding Recruiter at Mach9, you will own full-cycle recruiting across technical and non-technical roles, craft an exceptional candidate experience, build recruiting infrastructure from scratch, partner closely with founders to shape hiring strategy, and track key metrics to optimize time-to-fill and offer acceptance while shaping the company’s employer brand.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: People, HR & Talent

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own full-cycle recruiting across technical and non-technical roles: Sourcing, coordinating, and closing
  • •Own the candidate experience end-to-end: Every touchpoint, every piece of feedback, every offer call; we want every person who goes through our process to walk away excited about what we're building, whether or not they join
  • •Build the recruiting infrastructure from scratch: ATS, interview rubrics, comp calibration, hiring manager alignment, then keep improving it as we grow
  • •Partner closely with hiring managers: Deep calibration on what we're looking for, building interview loops that actually test for the right things, etc.
  • •Track the data that matters: Passthrough rates, time-to-fill, offer acceptance rates. Use it to make better decisions, not just report numbers
  • •Own our recruiting brand: Job descriptions, how we show up externally, and the story we tell about what we're building and why it matters
  • •Own recruiting strategy alongside the founders: Which roles to prioritize, how to think about team composition, and how hiring decisions today shape the company six months from now

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 80,000 - 150,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •5–7 years of full-cycle recruiting experience; technical recruiting background is a strong plus, as is at least one stint at a startup
  • •Comfortable with modern recruiting tools (ATS platforms like Ashby, sourcing tools, LinkedIn Recruiter)
  • •Builds relationships quickly across all levels (candidates, hiring managers, founders) and adjusts communication style accordingly
  • •Creative sourcer who finds candidates others overlook, and tenacious enough to follow through
  • •Highly organized with strong attention to detail; can run multiple open roles across different functions simultaneously without things falling through the cracks
Experience:StartupRecruitingTech
Skills:CommunicationRelationship-buildingSourcingAttention to detailOrganization
Languages:English
Tech Stack:AshbyLinkedIn RecruiterATS

Company Brief

Mach9
Builds AI-powered geospatial production software (Digital Surveyor) that converts LiDAR and imagery into engineering-ready 2D/3D maps and extracts features for surveying, transportation, and infrastructure teams.
Industry: Civil Engineering
Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)
Growth: Early Stage Startup
Funding: Seed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2021
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