[Remote] Founding Recruiter

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Taxwire is hiring its first recruiter to build and own the recruiting function as the company scales. The role leads full-cycle hiring across the business, from role scoping and sourcing through candidate experience and closing, while establishing recruiting systems and processes.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting across engineering, GTM, engineering, deployments, and account management: source, screen, close
• Run persistent, well-written outbound to senior people who aren't looking and are hard to reach
• Partner with Andrew (CEO) and hiring managers to scope each role before it opens: what the person does, what great looks like, and how we'll measure it
• Design the interview loop and scorecard for each role, and get interviewers calibrated before they start
• Own the candidate experience from first message to signed offer. Fast replies, clear next steps, no black holes
• Drive offers to close. Manage comp conversations, competing offers, and the human side of a hard yes
• Stand up the systems: ATS hygiene, structured interviews, sourcing playbooks, and a funnel you keep honest
• Keep the bar high when the pressure to fill fast is real, and make sure everyone we pass on still respects Taxwire

Skills

• You're a hustler. You get after it. You know great talent doesn't just come to you
• You're a closer. You know the job is not done until someone has signed and started at Taxwire
• You have taste in people. You can tell the difference between someone who interviews well and someone who'll do the work, and you trust that read enough to defend it
• You can talk to anyone we hire. Engineers, sellers, tax experts, etc. are different animals. You can hold a credible conversation with all three
• You care about hires that stick. You don't confuse motion with progress
• You're comfortable with ambiguity. You don't need a mature recruiting org or a perfect playbook. You'll write it
• 3-5+ years of recruiting experience with real full-cycle ownership, from sourcing through close
• A track record of closing senior or technical hires in a competitive market
• Strong written communication. We're a writing-first company, and most of your outreach and coordination lives in writing
• Comfort building process and systems from scratch
• Experience as an early or first recruiter at a high-growth startup
• Technical recruiting experience across engineering and product
• Hands-on experience with Ashby or a comparable ATS
• Recruiting for GTM, fintech, or tax roles, or another complex, credibility-driven domain

Benefits

• Company-covered benefits across medical, dental, vision, etc.
• Meaningful equity
• Unlimited PTO

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