Lightfield

SaaS

FoundingRecruiter

$170–210k San Francisco, California, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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optimal for Senior candidates.

The Brief

“Founding Recruiter at Lightfield. Skills: Full-spectrum recruiting, Talent strategy, Sourcing engine. Full-spectrum recruiting. Scale early-stage engineering teams”

What You'll Achieve.

Scaling a world-class engineering team

Industry & Context.

SaaS

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years of full-cycle recruiting, scaling early-stage engineering teams, fast-paced, high-growth environments, proven closer, landed senior and staff-level engineers, competitive markets, builder by nature, recruiting systems from scratch, ambiguous, low-infrastructure startup environments, comfortable with speed and ambiguity, autonomous and decisive, operate well as a team of one, make trade-offs without hand-holding, iterate fast, genuinely motivated by the mission

What You'll Do.

Full-spectrum recruiting

Scale early-stage engineering teams

Define 'great' at early-stage company

Craft narrative for elite engineers

data-driven pipelines

Implement ATS structure

high-velocity process

Coach managers on calibration

Coach managers on interview technique

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Hiring manager partnership

Full Job Description

ABOUT LIGHTFIELD Lightfield is an AI-native CRM that assembles itself from your email, calendar, and meetings. It captures every interaction and turns it into organized context: accounts, tasks, follow-ups, and insights, so nothing slips through the cracks. We’re rethinking CRM from first principles. Instead of forcing teams to maintain rigid systems, Lightfield learns from how companies actually work, adapting, automating, and surfacing the insight that drives growth. We’re building the CRM platform we always wished existed: fast, intelligent, and genuinely helpful. We are backed by Greylock, Lightspeed, and Coatue, and our founders previously built Tome, a generative AI presentation product used by over 25 million people. Before Lightfield, our team worked on Llama, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, Pinterest, Google, and Salesforce. ABOUT THE ROLE Lightfield is reinventing CRM from the ground up - and we're doing it fast. We're an early-stage startup where every hire directly shapes our trajectory, and we need someone who is energized by that pressure, not intimidated by it. Reporting directly to the CEO, you'll own talent across Engineering and GTM in one of the most critical phases of company building: the zero-to-one sprint where the right hires compound and the wrong ones cost months. Your north star is scaling a world-class engineering team without losing the bar. WHAT YOU'LL OWN - Full-spectrum recruiting - end-to-end ownership across Engineering and GTM, with a heavy center of gravity on scaling early-stage engineering teams fast. Senior engineers, ML specialists, infrastructure leads - you know how to find them, pitch them, and close them in competitive markets. - Talent strategy & employer brand - define what "great" looks like at an early-stage company moving at our speed, craft the narrative that makes elite engineers and operators choose us over the big names, and build the employer brand from scratch. - Sourcing engine, zero → one - there's no inherited

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