About the role
About Stainless Stainless is a fast-growing tech startup building the future of APIs. Our customers include industry leaders like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cloudflare. We have raised over $35 million from a16z, Sequoia, and founders/C-levels from Stripe, Datadog, Segment, Linear, and more. We are headquartered in NYC, just west of SoHo, and are a team of ~60 strong expecting to double in the next ~9 to 12 months.
About
the Role We're building something special at Stainless and we need a Recruiter who gets excited about the early-stage chaos of scaling a team from the ground up. You'll be a core part of our small but mighty talent team, partnering directly with leadership to shape how we find, attract, and bring on exceptional people. This isn't a "pipeline is full, just screen and schedule" kind of job — we're still figuring things out. You'll help us evolve our hiring motion and share learnings that shape our approach to building
the team.
What You'll Do Own full-cycle recruiting across engineering, go-to-market, and/or operations roles, from sourcing to offer acceptance. Help candidates understand Stainless by clearly articulating our mission, product, and culture, and being a trusted guide through a thoughtful interview process. Identify and execute opportunities to improve our recruiting strategy, employer brand, interview process, and candidate experience. And be a strong partner to hiring managers to put ideas into action. Maintain a healthy pipeline, track metrics accurately, and help us keep a sharp eye on what's working and what's not in our hiring process. Provide tight feedback to leadership on what candidates are looking for, where we're losing people, and what's resonating in our pitch.
Who you are You have 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally with some time spent at a high-growth startup. You've recruited exceptional technical, go-to-market, and/or ops talent and are just as comfortable evaluating engineers as you are account executives. You've helped candidates understand and get excited about early-stage opportunities, and confidently positioned startup equity and growth potential against bigger, more established companies. You've started something before: a process, a team initiative, a side project; anything that shows you're a builder at heart. You take feedback well, act on it quickly, and want to be part of building something from the ground up. We are a high confidence, low ego team. You've got strong communication skills: clear writing, warm presence on calls, and an ability to sell complex opportunities simply. You're comfortable with shifting priorities and can balance multiple urgent roles without losing sight of quality.