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title: 'Founding Technical Recruiter at Paraform'
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# Founding Technical Recruiter at Paraform

- **Company:** Paraform
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $175k–$210k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/paraform/e50af2b8-3ffe-43c9-8eca-dde8a5cc0ad7

## 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 Technical 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 technical 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 Decagon, Palantir, Rippling, Abridge, 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.

Our mission is to make hiring fast, reliable, and scalable for every company in the world.

At Paraform, we believe recruiting works best when the right people are working on the right problems, combining human judgment with AI that truly understands hiring. That’s why we’re building a new foundation for how companies hire, bringing together specialized recruiters and modern AI tools.

We treat recruiters like entrepreneurs, not vendors – and we’re building the financial, operational, and technical infrastructure that powers their success.

We are backed by the best investors and technology leaders: Scale, Felicis, A*, BOND, Liquid 2, DST Global, the founders of YouTube, Instacart, Canva, and more.

## About Paraform

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Paraform is an Agentic Hiring Platform where expert recruiters and custom AI agents collaborate to help companies fill critical roles faster and more accurately.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B – $65M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, CA, USA
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: John and Jeff (co-founders; full names not publicly disclosed)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Internet Marketplace Platforms, Talent Acquisition, HR Technology
- **Target customers**: B2B – high-growth startups to category-leading enterprises (e.g., Palantir, Rippling, Abridge, Decagon, Cognition, Thomson Reuters); also serves SMB and mid-market companies
- **Mission**: “Building the talent infrastructure of the 22nd century” – making hiring exceptional talent as easy as pressing a button.

## Products & Services
- **Agentic Hiring Platform**: Combines a marketplace of specialized expert recruiters with proprietary AI agents that learn from hiring outcomes to surface and match the best candidates. Includes tools for sourcing, candidate matching, CRM, notetaking, scheduling, and back-office support.
- **Recruiter Marketplace**: Connects companies with vetted recruiters who have deep domain networks; recruiters get access to high-quality clients, AI tools, and business development support.
- **AI Recruiting Agents**: Custom AI agents that act on matching intelligence – running workflows, surfacing candidates, and automating follow-ups.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Total Funding**: $65M (Series B announced March 2026)
- **Key Metrics**: 1,000+ customer companies; 90 team members; recruiters on the platform have earned over $50M to date; average candidate hired earns ~$260K/year (total comp often $300K–$400K).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Led by Scale Venture Partners, with participation from Felicis, A* Capital, Liquid 2 Ventures; angel investors include CTO of Palantir, co-founders of Canva and YouTube, COO of Stripe, President of Shopify, CPO of Uber.
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid customer growth (1,000+ companies), high recruiter earnings (some exceed $300K/month, $1M+/year), expansion into verticals with acute talent scarcity.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Data Moat**: Proprietary data on hiring outcomes that compounds with every placement – creating signals no other platform has.
- **Human + AI Synergy**: AI agents handle repetitive tasks and pattern matching, while expert recruiters provide contextual insight (e.g., motivation, culture fit) that AI cannot easily infer.
- **Network Effects**: More recruiters attract more companies, which generate more data and better matches, reinforcing the platform’s intelligence.
- **Speed**: Companies typically meet their eventual hire within ~12 days, significantly faster than traditional processes.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale the marketplace**: Grow both customer and recruiter bases rapidly.
- **Deepen AI capabilities**: Invest in models that learn from real hiring outcomes and expand the agentic platform.
- **Vertical expansion**: Target talent-scarce verticals (engineering, GTM, finance, legal) and build infrastructure for modern, outcome-driven hiring.

## Why Work Here
- **Compensation & Equity**: Competitive salaries (e.g., Software Engineer $140K–$290K, Applied ML Engineer $190K–$240K, Product Manager $150K–$250K) plus meaningful equity.
- **Benefits**: 100% healthcare coverage (medical, dental, vision) with dependent plans; 401k; flexible PTO; daily catered meals by an in-house chef; Bay Club gym membership; Ramp corporate card; annual company offsites (e.g., Hawaii, Tokyo, Sydney, New York).
- **Office Policy**: In-person at San Francisco headquarters; roles listed as “San Francisco” with no explicit remote option.
- **Culture**: “We hire the best and treat them accordingly” – ownership mindset, high autonomy, focus on impact.

## Sources
1. [paraform.com/about](https://www.paraform.com/about)
2. [paraform.com/careers](https://www.paraform.com/careers)
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/paraformxyz)
4. [paraform.com/blog/series-b](https://www.paraform.com/blog/series-b)
5. [paraform.com](https://www.paraform.com/)

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