Founding Technical Recruiter

About the Role

Paraform is disrupting how companies hire — and we're looking for someone to help us hire the best people to do it. As our Founding Technical Recruiter, you'll own engineering and technical hiring end-to-end at a pivotal moment in our growth. This isn't a coordinator role or a req-filler — you'll be a true talent partner to our engineering and product leaders, shaping how we find and sell world-class technical talent on Paraform.

You'll be hands-on sourcing, closing, and iterating on our process — while also laying the recruiting infrastructure that scales with us.

What You'll Do

• Own full-cycle recruiting for engineering, product, and design roles — from kickoff to close
• Source proactively and build pipelines for hard-to-fill technical roles, with a bias toward finding non-obvious talent that others miss
• Partner closely with hiring managers to deeply understand technical requirements, team dynamics, and what "great" actually looks like for each role
• Define and continuously sharpen our interview process, scorecards, and candidate experience for technical hires
• Build repeatable sourcing playbooks, calibration frameworks, and pipeline tracking that raise the bar over time
• Serve as a genuine ambassador for Paraform's mission — you should be able to speak credibly about our product, our market, and why the best engineers should want to work here
• Identify recruiting tooling, sourcing channels, and workflow improvements that increase quality and efficiency

What We're Looking For

• 3–5+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, ideally with time spent in-house at a high-growth startup
• Proven track record closing strong engineering candidates in a competitive market
• Deep sourcing chops — you're not waiting on inbound; you know how to find people and get them interested
• Strong technical literacy — you don't need to code, but you can hold a real conversation about tech stacks, system design, and engineering culture
• High ownership mentality and comfort operating without a playbook
• Builder mindset — excited to create process and structure where there isn't any
• Familiarity with the recruiting industry or marketplace businesses is a plus (and genuinely interesting to us)

About Paraform:Paraform is a marketplace modernizing one of the largest and most fragmented markets in the world: hiring. We partner with industry leaders like Cursor, Palantir, Windsurf, Decagon, Shopify, Coinbase, and Hightouch to hire world-class talent, and are growing quickly - 8×-ing revenue last year.

Paraform is the first end-to-end AI recruiting marketplace that connects companies with thousands of specialized recruiters and AI agents that work together to fill roles faster and more accurately.