Founding Recruiter
LightfieldCRM company
San Francisco, United StatesSenior
Greylock
Coatue Management
8VC
GV
Audacious Ventures
Neo
People / HR / Recruitment
About the role
TL;DR
Scale a world-class engineering team at an early-stage CRM startup.
- •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.
- •Key Responsibilities Full-spectrum recruiting
- •end-to-end ownership across Engineering and GTM, with a heavy center of gravity on scaling early-stage engineering teams fast.
- •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 playbook here.
- •You'll build repeatable, data-driven pipelines from the ground up across outbound, referrals, events, and community
- •and iterate on them constantly.
- •Process & tooling
- •implement the right amount of ATS structure and communication discipline for a lean, fast-moving startup so no great candidate ever falls through the cracks
- •without over-engineering for a company our size.
- •Candidate experience
- •run a crisp, high-velocity process that respects candidates' time and turns skeptics into advocates, hired or not.
- •Requirements 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting, with a heavy focus on scaling early-stage engineering teams in fast-paced, high-growth environments A proven closer who has landed senior and staff-level engineers in competitive markets
- •and can tell the story of how A builder by nature
- •you've stood up or overhauled recruiting systems from scratch in ambiguous, low-infrastructure startup environments and thrived in it Comfortable with speed and ambiguity
- •at an early-stage startup, the priorities shift, the roles evolve, and the bar keeps moving; you adjust without losing momentum Autonomous and decisive
- •you operate well as a team of one, make trade-offs without hand-holding, and iterate fast Genuinely motivated by the mission, not just the process
- •you want to help build something from the ground up, not just fill seats
Required skills
RecruitingTalent AcquisitionPeople OperationsEngineering ManagementTechnical LeadershipStrategic PlanningOrganizational DesignCoachingMentoringChange ManagementCross-functional LeadershipVision Setting
Nice-to-have skills
A/B TestingDesign ThinkingWireframingPrototypingProject ManagementCustomer SuccessCustomer OnboardingImplementation Management
Benefits & perks
Competitive salary, Meaningful early equity, Health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 3 weeks of PTO, 11 paid company holidays + we enjoy a winter holiday break, 3 months of paid family leave, Wednesdays work from home, Regular team dinners, events, offsites, and retreats, 401k plan, Other perks include: commuter and lunch stipend