Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Feanix is a YC-backed startup using whole-genome sequencing and custom machine learning models to improve animal breeding and herd management. The Founding Recruiter will own full-cycle recruiting across technical and non-technical functions, partner with founders and hiring managers, and build scalable sourcing, candidate engagement, interview, and recruiting operations processes.
Responsibilities
- Own full-cycle recruiting across technical and non-technical roles, from initial role definition through accepted offer
- Proactively source and engage exceptional candidates rather than relying primarily on inbound applicants
- Recruit across engineering, product, revenue, customer/farm success, lab/scientific, and operations roles
- Lead searches ranging from individual contributors to senior leaders
- Partner closely with founders and hiring managers to define role scope, level, requirements, and what great looks like before launching a search
- Build creative sourcing strategies for difficult-to-find and highly specialized talent
- Identify strong candidates from adjacent industries whose skills translate to the problems we're solving
- Translate complex or unconventional roles into compelling candidate narratives
- Build and maintain strong pipelines for both immediate and anticipated hiring needs
- Own candidate engagement and experience from first outreach through offer and close
- Advise leadership on talent markets, compensation, candidate availability, and hiring strategy
- Help create structured interview processes, scorecards, and evaluation criteria
- Own recruiting operations and ensure searches move quickly and candidates don't get lost in the process
- Track pipeline health, conversion rates, sourcing effectiveness, time-to-hire, and other recruiting metrics
- Improve our recruiting systems and processes as we scale without adding unnecessary bureaucracy
- Help build Feanix's employer brand and tell our story to candidates who may have never considered working in agriculture
Skills
- * 4+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with meaningful in-house recruiting experience preferred
- * Experience recruiting in an early-stage startup environment, ideally Seed through Series A
- * Proven ability to recruit across multiple functions rather than exclusively within one specialty
- * Strong experience recruiting software engineers and other highly technical talent
- * Demonstrated success proactively sourcing and engaging high-quality passive candidates
- * Experience recruiting senior individual contributors, managers, and functional leaders
- * Ability to quickly understand unfamiliar, complex, or highly specialized roles
- * Strong judgment about candidate quality and the ability to distinguish an impressive résumé from genuine fit
- * Ability to turn ambiguous hiring needs into clear candidate profiles and actionable searches
- * Comfortable challenging assumptions and advising hiring managers when requirements, compensation, or search strategy need to change
- * Strong candidate communication, relationship-building, and closing skills
- * Highly organized with excellent attention to detail and follow-through
- * Comfortable managing multiple searches with very different candidate profiles and priorities
- * Able to operate effectively in a fast-moving environment where priorities and hiring needs can change quickly
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States
- We are unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfers at this time
- * Experience hiring for AI/ML, data, biotech, scientific, hardware, agriculture, or similarly specialized industries
- * Experience recruiting candidates into industries or problem spaces they hadn't previously considered
- * Experience partnering directly with founders and executives on critical hires
- * Experience with Greenhouse and LinkedIn Recruiter
- * 4+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with meaningful in-house recruiting experience preferred
Benefits
- Flexible, remote-friendly work environment for most roles
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Retirement savings support through CalSavers for California-based employees
- 401(k)
- Flexible paid time off (PTO)
- Paid parental leave, including up to four weeks of paid leave and/or supplemental pay coordination with applicable state benefits
- Equity options
- Pet insurance
Company Overview