Founding Recruiter

This role is full-time and onsite in our SF office.

Qualifications

• You can operate as team of one—rolling up your sleeves to source, coordinate, and close. You'll work closely with the CEO and HR Manager, but you'll be the one figuring out what needs to be done and doing it.

• You think like a founder: high judgment, bias for action, and ownership mentality.

• You write outbound messages that actually get responses and know how to search for the right people in non-obvious places.

• You're smart with tools - Ashby, Linkedin, and using AI to automate the repetitive parts.

• 7+ years of experience in recruiting, with at least 3 years in a startup or high-growth environment.

Responsibilities

• Full Cycle Recruiting: Own the full-cycle recruiting across roles

• Talent Strategy : Work with founders and hiring managers to set hiring goals, scope new roles and develop talent roadmaps

• Sourcing : Build and run outbound sourcing strategies to reach top talent

• Manage Talent Infrastructure: Including Ashby, LinkedIn Recruiter, and hiring data

• Growth Strategy : Inform founders on team composition and organizational scaling

• Talent Operations : Own candidate coordination, recruiting tools, and continuously improve our hiring processes and structures

• Brand Building : Build out Short Story's brand and values with authenticity, empathy, and clarity in every candidate interaction

What We Value

• An obsession with detail - every word, every punctuation mark

• Excellent writing skills

• Anything is possible mindset

• An extremely strong work ethic with commitment to quality and detail

• Scrappiness

Why You Should Join Us

• Strong backing from investors YCombinator, Tribe Capital

• Best-in-class team that is deeply mission-aligned

• Have a huge impact on a small team with lots of runway for growth

• Competitive salary and equity compensation

• Excellent benefits and versatile health, dental, and vision coverage plans

• Paid parental leave

• Unlimited PTO

Short Story is committed to providing equal employment opportunity and a work environment free of discrimination and harassment for all employees and applicants. We work diligently to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.

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