Founding Recruiter

OverviewApplication About Us Join us in building the leading AI-Powered Mission Control for Corporate Travel. Some of the world's most recognizable companies, representing over $4T in market value, rely on Clarasight's software to reduce risks, save costs, protect revenues, and manage emissions aligned with business objectives and sustainability goals. About You You are a builder at heart — an empty org chart and an unwritten playbook are the best part of the job, not the scary part. You have run full-cycle searches end to end and know how to turn a hiring manager's rough wish list into a signed offer. You are equal parts relationship-driven and operationally rigorous: you can win over a passive candidate and just as easily build out an ATS, define a scorecard, and report on funnel health. You are excited by the idea of a recruiting function that runs on automation and AI rather than manual busywork. You care deeply about candidate experience because every interaction is the company's first impression. You thrive in ambiguity — when there's no process you create one, and when it breaks you fix it without being asked. About The Role As Clarasight's Founding Recruiter, you'll own talent acquisition for the whole company at the moment it matters most. This is our first dedicated recruiting hire — you'll partner directly with our founders and hiring managers to build the team that builds the product, recruiting across engineering, go-to-market, and operations while designing the systems and hiring bar that scale with us across Boston, NYC, Lisbon, and London. As an AI company, we expect our recruiting function to reflect it — you'll bring automation and AI into the process wherever it raises speed, signal, or candidate experience. Own full-cycle recruiting across every function — sourcing, screening, interview coordination, and closeManage and build out Ashby as our system of record: pipelines, structured interview loops, scorecards, and hiring metricsBring automation and AI into the recruiting workflow to increase speed and signal without sacrificing candidate experiencePartner with founders and hiring managers to scope roles, calibrate on bar, and run high-signal processesShape and champion Clarasight's employer brand to attract exceptional talent in a competitive market Key Responsibilities Source and engage top active and passive candidates across technical and GTM rolesRun structured, consistent interview processes and keep every search moving with urgencyOwn and optimize Ashby — workflows, automations, and integrations — as the backbone of how we hireEstablish and own hiring data — pipeline health, conversion, time-to-fill — and use it to improveIdentify and deploy automation and AI tooling to streamline sourcing, screening, and coordinationManage agency and tooling relationships and decide when to build in-house vs. outsourceDeliver a high-touch candidate experience from first outreach through offerLay the foundation for a future talent team: playbooks, process, and a culture of hiring well You'll Be a Great Fit If You… Have 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally in-house at a high-growth startupHave recruited across multiple functions (engineering + GTM a strong plus)Have built or meaningfully improved recruiting processes, not just executed within themAre fluent in modern recruiting tooling and eager to apply automation and AI to the workAre an exceptional communicator who can represent the company and close candidatesOperate with high agency and real comfort in ambiguityAre genuinely excited about startup life and building from zero Nice to Haves Hands-on experience administering and building in AshbyExperience hiring across multiple geographies, including Europe (Lisbon / London)A track record of technical or engineering recruiting in a competitive marketExperience working alongside AI systems and applying human judgment to automated outputs Diverse Perspectives We know that innovation thrives on teams where diverse points of view come together to solve hard problems in ways that are just now possible. As such, we explicitly seek people that bring diverse life experiences, diverse educational backgrounds, diverse cultures, and diverse work experiences. Please be prepared to share with us how your perspective will bring something unique and valuable to our team. Compensation Range: $110K - $140K