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title: 'Technical Recruiter (Contract) at Nectar'
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# Technical Recruiter (Contract) at Nectar

- **Company:** Nectar
- **Location:** Palo Alto, CA
- **Compensation:** $60–$85/hr
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-11-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nectar/df476cd7-035a-4361-b02d-d23f9f5a39b3

## Job description

## About Us

We're living through a fundamental shift in how people discover, evaluate, and purchase products. The next generation doesn't respond to traditional marketing -- they build relationships with brands through authentic social interactions, seek recommendations from communities they trust, and expect personalized experiences that feel human, not corporate. At Nectar, we're building the AI-native social operating system that enables this new era of commerce. We believe every social interaction should deepen the relationship between brands and their communities while creating genuine value for both sides. Founded by ex-Meta product and engineering leaders, we've raised over $30M in total capital from investors including GV and True Ventures. We work with brands like Oura Health, Caraway, e.l.f. Cosmetics, Kosas, OLIPOP, and many more. We're building the future of social commerce -- where community, conversation, and commerce converge.

## The Role

We're hiring a Contract Technical Recruiter to help us scale our engineering, data, and product teams. Our engineering organization is around 50 people and growing, and we're hiring across software engineering, engineering leadership, product, and data science. You'll own searches end to end, from intake to signed offer, and help us hire people who raise the bar. You'll partner directly with our founders, engineering leaders, and hiring managers, and you'll be the first impression many candidates have of Nectar. This role is based in our Palo Alto office and is a 6-month contract with the possibility to convert to full-time.

## What You'll Be Doing

- Own full-cycle recruiting for technical roles, including software engineers, tech leads, engineering managers, product managers, and data scientists
- Run intake meetings with hiring managers to define the role, the profile, the interview plan, and what a great hire looks like
- Source passive candidates through LinkedIn, Juicebox, GitHub, referrals, sourcing tools, and your own network, and write outreach that gets replies
- Screen candidates for technical fit, motivation, and alignment with how we work, and present a clear, honest pitch for Nectar
- Coordinate interview loops and keep candidates and interviewers moving quickly, with feedback collected and debriefs held on time
- Manage offers and closing conversations alongside hiring managers and founders, including compensation and equity discussions
- Keep our ATS (Ashby) accurate and up to date, and report on pipeline health, conversion rates, and time to hire
- Give candidates a fast, transparent, and personal experience at every stage, whether or not they get an offer
- Suggest improvements to our interview process, job descriptions, and sourcing strategy as we scale

## What We're Looking For

- 3+ years of technical recruiting experience, ideally including time at a high-growth startup, venture-backed company.
- A track record of closing software engineers and engineering leaders in a competitive market such as the Bay Area
- Strong sourcing skills; you can find and engage passive candidates rather than waiting on inbound
- Enough technical fluency to talk credibly with engineers about stacks, systems, and the work they'd do here
- Experience managing several open searches at once while keeping hiring managers and candidates informed
- Clear, persuasive written and verbal communication, and comfort advising hiring managers when a search needs to change course
- Hands-on experience with a modern ATS (Ashby preferred) and sourcing tools, and comfort using AI tools such as Claude to work faster
- Able to work from our Palo Alto office 4 days a week

## About Nectar

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Nectar builds an AI-powered social operating system that automates community management, social listening, and commerce – turning organic social engagement into measurable revenue.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Startup) – Latest round: $30M Series A (May 2026, per PitchBook); prior seed rounds totaling $12.6M (led by Google Ventures and True Ventures).
- **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Misbah Uraizee (CEO) and Farah Uraizee (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Social Commerce, Marketing Technology (MarTech), Artificial Intelligence / Agentic Automation
- **Target customers**: B2B – disruptor brands and enterprise ecommerce/retail companies (e.g., e.l.f. Beauty, Liquid Death)
- **Mission/purpose**: To bridge community engagement with revenue, enabling brands to scale authentic relationships through AI agents.

## Products & Services
- **Nectar AI Agents**: Autonomous agents that engage one-on-one across social channels (DMs, comments, threads, stories) – handling replies, product recommendations, giveaways, and opt-ins.
- **Social Listening & Intelligence**: Cross-platform listening that captures 100% of brand chatter (including untagged mentions, video frames, audio) and surfaces trends, sentiment, and buying signals 48 hours faster than legacy tools.
- **Content Intelligence**: Post-level performance analytics, competitive benchmarking, and earned media value (EMV) tracking – all in one dashboard.
- **Influencer & Creator Management**: AI-powered scoring to identify rising creators, track competitor wins, and manage influencer outreach.
- **CRM & Revenue Attribution**: Closed-loop attribution that ties social conversations to sales, LTV, and customer journeys – integrates with Klaviyo, Attentive, and downstream retargeting platforms.
- **Brand Voice Studio**: Customizable tone calibration, approval workflows, and brand-safety guardrails to keep AI interactions on-brand.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metrics**:
  - Total funding: $30M (Series A, May 2026) + $12.6M (prior seed rounds)
  - Attributed $100M in revenue across customer conversations (Menlo Ventures, 2026)
  - 10M+ autonomous conversations per week (up 5x in three months)
  - 50M users engaged across customer brands
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Google Ventures, True Ventures, Menlo Ventures (led Series A); official data partnerships with Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, Reddit, X.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew 185.7% YoY (52 employees as of mid-2026)
  - Operating in 6 countries (US, Pakistan, UK, Philippines, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Ukraine)
  - 22 active job postings (up 1000% YoY)
  - Customers include e.l.f. Beauty, Liquid Death – fast-growing disruptor brands

## Competitive Advantages
- **Ex-Meta/Instagram/Twitter founding team** who understand social platforms from the inside.
- **Official API partnerships** with major social networks – enabling real-time access to all conversations, not just tagged mentions.
- **Closed-loop revenue attribution** – a unique ability to tie social interactions directly to purchases, differentiating from pure listening or engagement tools.
- **Brand voice control** with human-in-the-loop validation, ensuring AI agents sound exactly like the brand’s best community manager.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale autonomous community management** – moving from manual moderation to AI-driven, real-time engagement across all channels.
- **Expand enterprise adoption** – targeting large ecommerce and retail brands with SOC 2 Type II compliance, SSO, and role-based access.
- **Deepen integrations** – with CRM, email/SMS marketing (Klaviyo, Attentive), and analytics platforms to close the loop from social signal to purchase.
- **Continue building the "agentic marketing system"** – collapsing the traditional stack of social intelligence, community, influencer, CX, and analytics into one platform.

## Why Work Here
- **Hyper-growth environment**: 185% headcount growth YoY, fresh Series A funding, and a product already at meaningful scale (10M+ conversations/week).
- **Remote-first culture**: Team spans 6 countries (US, Pakistan, UK, Philippines, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Ukraine); strong remote collaboration practices.
- **Engineering-led DNA**: 33% of employees are in technical roles; founders are former Meta/Instagram engineers.
- **Early-stage impact**: Opportunity to shape product and culture from the ground up – 22 open roles across engineering, sales, marketing, and design.
- **Notable perks**: SOC 2 Type II compliance from day one, premium support, and a "brand voice studio" that gives engineers a direct line to customer experience.
- **Career growth**: Fast promotion cycles typical of high-growth startups; alumni have gone to Amazon, True Ventures, and other top tech companies.

## Sources
1. [nectarsocial.com](https://www.nectarsocial.com/)
2. [linkedin.com/company/nectar-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/nectar-ai)
3. [pitchbook.com/profiles/company/538850-89](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/538850-89)
4. [menlovc.com/perspective/nectar-social-rewriting-the-modern-marketing-playbook](https://menlovc.com/perspective/nectar-social-rewriting-the-modern-marketing-playbook/)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/nectar-social](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nectar-social)

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