Paraform
Technology
FoundingGTMRecruiter
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“Founding GTM Recruiter at Paraform. Skills: Full-Cycle Recruiting, Talent Strategy, Sourcing. Own sourcing, screening, interviewing, and closing candidates. Set talent bar”
Industry & Context.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
3–5+ years full-cycle recruiting, Recruiting experience for non-technical roles, Recruiting experience for GTM roles, Experience in-house at high-growth startup, Proven track record closing candidates, Deep sourcing chops
Nice to Have
Familiarity with recruiting industry, Familiarity with marketplace businesses
What You'll Do.
and closing candidates
Set candidate experience
Set employer branding
Own candidate coordination
Improve hiring processes
Improve hiring structures
Serve as ambassador for Paraform
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work with founders; Work with hiring managers
Full Job Description
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. We're looking for an experienced, high-powered Founding GTM Recruiter who lives and breathes talent and is an expert working with early stage and high growth startups. You'll primarily be focused on sourcing top 1% talent to join the Paraform team, driving a culture of excellence, and supporting the company with everything else hiring-related as we rapidly scale. What You'll Do - Full-Cycle Recruiting: Own sourcing, screening, interviewing, and closing candidates across multiple functions - Talent Strategy: Work with the founders and hiring managers to set our talent bar, hiring goals, candidate experience, and employer branding - Talent Operations: Own candidate coordination, recruiting tools (including Paraform!), and continuously improve our hiring processes and structures - People Ops: Have the option to own HR/People Ops in the interim on an as-needed basis - Promote Paraform: 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 candidates should want to work here What We're Looking For - 3–5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience for non-technical and GTM roles, ideally with time spent in-house at a high-growth startup - Proven track record closing strong candidates in a competitive market - Deep sourcing chops — you're not waiting on inbound; you know how to find people and get them interested - 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, Deca
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