Senior Recruiter, Finance Experts

Company: Confidential - Seed-stage AI research startup
Location: San Francisco, CA (on-site 5 days per week; relocation stipend available)
Compensation: $150,000 - $200,000 + 0.15% - 0.3% equity
Employment Type: Full-time
Visa Sponsorship: Visa transfers (OPT, H-1B transfer)

About the Company

A seed-stage startup that works with frontier AI labs to build reinforcement-learning environments and benchmarks that teach AI agents to do real financial-services work.

The Role

Our client is hiring its first recruiter (2-5 years) to build and own the expert sourcing engine: finding and activating top finance professionals from investment banking, private equity and hedge funds into its expert network. This work directly drives company growth and revenue, and sits at the intersection of recruiting, growth and product, with full autonomy from day one.

What You Will Do

• Own the full expert pipeline end to end: outbound sourcing, inbound campaigns, referral programs, qualification and activation.
• Run multi-channel growth campaigns at scale (LinkedIn outreach, alumni networks, MBA programs, campus recruiting, cold outreach) and A/B test what works.
• Build and manage sourcing systems and tooling (automation, campaign sending, JD testing) with minimal direction.
• Own funnel metrics, conversion and retention data to keep improving sourcing performance.
• Partner with Strategic Project Leads to turn upcoming customer work into proactive sourcing plans by domain and seniority.

What You Bring

• 2-5 years as a recruiter, sourcer, growth specialist or outbound sales representative
• High-volume finance recruiting or sourcing experience (investment banking, private equity, hedge funds, on-cycle recruiting or finance-focused search)
• Managed multiple sourcing channels and ran campaigns at scale, not only 1:1 recruiting
• Can independently set up campaign sending and LinkedIn automation tools
• Data fluency: pulls your own numbers and makes data-driven decisions
• Scrappy, self-directed builder
• Ability to work on-site in San Francisco 5 days a week

Nice to Have

• Experience at finance-based or finance-adjacent startups
• Marketing and copywriting for top-of-funnel recruiting content

Benefits

Fully covered healthcare (subsidized for dependents), 401(k) with 4% match, free meals, gym and transportation, $10k+ relocation stipend.

Interview Process

Initial screen (30 min), live case study (45 min), virtual half-day trial, on-site super day with the team (2-3 hours).

Tech Stack

LinkedIn Recruiter, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, SQL, Google Sheets, Ashby, Claude Code