Founding Technical Recruiter (AI & Automation)
Compensation: $180k – $250k • 1.5% – 2.0%
Founding Technical Recruiter (AI & Automation)
Contract → Full-Time | Path to Head of Talent
🚀 About Us
We're building one of the next generation of Web3 and memecoin ecosystems, combining blockchain, AI, community, and cutting-edge technology to create products that millions of users can engage with.
We're moving fast, hiring globally, and building a world-class team from the ground up.
We're looking for a Founding Technical Recruiter who isn't just a recruiter—but a builder. Someone who can leverage AI, automation, and modern sourcing techniques to attract exceptional talent across Web3, engineering, product, growth, marketing, and operations.
This role starts as a contract position with a clear path to becoming a full-time employee and eventually leading our entire Talent function as Head of Talent.
What You'll Do
You'll own recruiting from strategy to hire.
Responsibilities include:
- Build and scale our global recruiting function.
- Own full-cycle recruitment across technical and business teams.
- Source exceptional candidates using AI-powered sourcing tools and advanced recruiting techniques.
- Recruit across Engineering, Smart Contract Development, AI, Product, Design, Marketing, Community, BD, Operations and Growth.
- Build pipelines before roles even open.
- Identify top Web3 builders through GitHub, X (Twitter), Discord, Telegram, Farcaster, LinkedIn, Wellfound, crypto communities and developer networks.
- Design recruiting automations that eliminate repetitive work.
- Build scalable sourcing workflows using AI.
- Partner directly with founders on hiring strategy.
- Continuously improve hiring speed, quality and candidate experience.
- Create recruiting dashboards and reporting.
- Develop employer branding within the Web3 ecosystem.
You're Probably a Great Fit If You...
- Love finding exceptional people before everyone else.
- Think like a growth operator instead of a traditional recruiter.
- Are obsessed with efficiency and automation.
- Know how to use AI as a competitive advantage.
- Thrive in startup environments with ambiguity.
- Can manage multiple hiring pipelines independently.
- Enjoy building systems instead of following them.
Required Experience
Recruiting
- 4+ years recruiting for startups or high-growth companies.
- Experience recruiting software engineers and technical talent.
- Proven success sourcing passive candidates.
- Strong interviewing and candidate assessment skills.
- Experience hiring internationally.
Bonus if you've recruited in:
- Web3
- Crypto
- Blockchain
- AI
- FinTech
- Gaming
- Consumer Apps
AI & Recruiting Technology
You should already be comfortable using modern recruiting technology, including many of the following:
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Perplexity
- LinkedIn Recruiter
- Wellfound
- Ashby
- Greenhouse
- Lever
- hireEZ
- SeekOut
- Gem
- Clay
- Apollo
- SourceWhale
- PhantomBuster
- Zapier
- Make.com
- Notion
- Google Workspace
Experience with additional AI recruiting tools is a major plus.
Web3 Knowledge (Preferred)
You don't need to be a blockchain engineer, but you should understand the ecosystem.
Ideally you're familiar with:
- Crypto culture
- Memecoins
- DeFi
- NFTs
- Wallets
- Ethereum
- Solana
- Layer 2 ecosystems
- DAOs
- On-chain communities
- Crypto-native hiring channels
Success Metrics
Within your first 90 days you'll:
- Fill critical positions across multiple departments.
- Build scalable AI-powered recruiting workflows.
- Reduce hiring time while maintaining exceptional quality.
- Build proactive pipelines for future hiring.
- Improve candidate response rates.
- Become the founders' trusted hiring partner.
Growth Opportunity
This role begins as a contract position.
Outstanding performance will lead to:
- Full-time employment
- Greater ownership of recruiting operations
- Leadership responsibilities
- Building and managing future recruiters
- Becoming our Head of Talent
If you're excited about building a recruiting organization—not simply filling jobs—this opportunity is for you.
Why Join Us?
- Build from day one alongside the founding team.
- Work at the intersection of AI, Web3, blockchain and community.
- High ownership with direct impact on company growth.
- Global remote team.
- Opportunity to shape company culture from the beginning.
- Fast decision-making with no unnecessary bureaucracy.
- Clear path to leadership as the company scales.
We'd Love to Hear From You If...
You're passionate about recruiting, fascinated by AI, excited by Web3, and motivated by building exceptional teams in a fast-moving startup environment.
If you're looking for a role where your ideas matter, your impact is visible, and your career can grow into leading Talent for an ambitious Web3 company, we'd love to meet you.