Founding Technical Recruiter

About the role

You will help build the Engineering, Product, and Design teams behind Garage’s next stage of growth. You’ll partner closely with the CTO/Co-founder and engineering leaders to identify the builders who can turn a complex, mission-critical marketplace into an experience that customers love. This is a hands-on role for someone who treats sourcing as a craft. You will own searches end to end, build targeted pipelines from scratch, run a fast and thoughtful process, and help Garage raise the bar with every hire.

Own full-cycle hiring across engineering, product, design, and data science, partnering with founders to attract and close exceptional technical talent.

• Build and execute targeted sourcing strategies using outbound, referrals, communities, and technical communities to fill high-priority roles quickly.
• Run structured, high-quality recruiting processes, from screening through offer, while delivering an exceptional candidate experience.
• Track pipeline health in Ashby and build scalable recruiting systems and playbooks.
• Help grow out our recruiting team as the company grows.

What We’re Looking For

• Treats recruiting as an ownership role and cares deeply about quality of hire.
• Knows how to engage technical talent and can make Garage stand out through compelling outreach.
• Enjoys building processes where it helps, but prefers practical systems over heavy recruiting bureaucracy.
• Is excited by Garage’s stage: small team, high trust, high ownership, and a lot of foundational hiring still ahead.

Required

• Full-cycle experience in hiring technical talent for software engineering, design, product development, and data science.
• A strong network with existing knowledge of the NYC startup talent market.
• Ability to close talent with a strong eye for culture fit.
• Passion for building high-performance teams in a fast-paced, innovative environment.
• Experience using Ashby, Juicebox, Metaview, Gem, Clay, ChatGPT, Claude, or other modern recruiting and AI tools.
• Strong organization in an ATS like Ashby.

Why Garage?

• Our product is something people use everyday to buy the equipment local communities everywhere depend on.
• We’ve grown revenue over 10x in the last year and are well capitalized with $18M in funding raised total.
• We have a talent-dense, high-performing team from Ramp, Twitter, Goldman Sachs, Bilt, Wise, Unify, Honey, PayPal, and more.
• You’ll be one of our first 35 employees, operating as a foundational member of the team, partnering alongside the company’s founders.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and stock options.
• Health, dental and vision insurance (100% covered).
• Unlimited paid time off every year (in addition to company observed holidays).
• Daily lunch and dinner.
• $100 monthly wellness stipend.
• 401(k) with employer match.
• Pre-tax commuter benefits.
• Bi-annual team offsite.
• Relocation assistance.