Founding Recruiter

Lightfield is an AI-native CRM company rethinking how customer relationship management works by adapting to actual business practices. They are seeking a Founding Recruiter to lead talent acquisition across Engineering and GTM, focusing on building a world-class engineering team during a critical growth phase.

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. Senior engineers, ML specialists, infrastructure leads - you know how to find them, pitch them, and close them in competitive markets
• 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
• Hiring manager partnership - coach managers across functions on calibration, interview technique, and closing; surface weekly funnel insights so leadership always knows where things stand