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Founding Recruiter

New York City, NY

Posted: 01/06/2026 Industry: Recruiting Job Number: 3511206 Pay Rate: 140000/year - 180000/year

Job Description


Founding Recruiter

Location: New York City or Toronto (5 days in-office)

Type: Full-time

Compensation: $140,000–$180,000 base + meaningful equity

Visa sponsorship: Not available

About the Opportunity

We’re building a modern financial platform designed for companies that sell physical products. By automating treasury, cash management, and financial planning workflows, we help growing businesses turn financial operations into a strategic advantage instead of a cost center.

Backed by top-tier investors and trusted by hundreds of customers processing over $1B in annual transaction volume, we’re a well-capitalized, fast-growing startup with a strong product, clear market pull, and a world-class founding team from leading commerce and fintech companies.

This is a rare chance to join early and have outsized impact.

The Role

We’re hiring our first in-house recruiter to build and own the hiring function from the ground up. You’ll partner directly with founders and senior leaders to design how we attract, evaluate, and close exceptional talent across the company.

The initial focus will be on engineering and product roles, with opportunities to support go-to-market and operations hiring as the team scales.

What You’ll Do
  • Own full-cycle recruiting across multiple functions, from sourcing through offer close
  • Partner closely with hiring managers to define role requirements, interview plans, and hiring priorities
  • Proactively source and engage top-tier, passive candidates using modern tools and creative outreach
  • Build and maintain strong candidate pipelines while delivering an excellent, high-touch candidate experience
  • Track and improve recruiting metrics such as time-to-fill, pipeline health, and offer acceptance rates
  • Continuously refine hiring processes as the company grows

What We’re Looking For
  • 4+ years of experience recruiting in fast-paced, high-growth environments
  • Strong background in technical recruiting (engineering, product)
  • Proven ability to source and close senior, passive candidates
  • Experience at fintech, B2B SaaS, AI, or early-stage startups is a plus
  • Comfortable operating with ambiguity and building systems from scratch
  • Excellent communicator who builds trust with candidates and hiring managers alike
  • Experience using modern recruiting tools (e.g., ATS platforms and LinkedIn Recruiter)

Why Join
  • Be the first recruiter and shape the talent bar and hiring culture from day one
  • Work directly with founders and a highly experienced leadership team
  • Join a well-funded company tackling a large, underserved market
  • Competitive compensation and meaningful equity upside
  • High ownership, real influence, and visible impact on company success

Who is Rainier Recruiting?

Rainier Recruiting is a boutique, award winning national staffing agency and executive search firm. Using an approach that “treats every candidate like an executive search”, we offer positions in contract-to-hire, Full-Time, and executive search. Named the #1 Best Workplace in Washington State in 2022, recognized as a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing firm, and identified as a top recruitment firm by multiple business journals, Rainier Recruiting is fast becoming a respected company. We are no longer the “best recruiters you have never heard of”. Rainier Recruiting is also proud to share our clients have a 93% repeat business rate. Rainier Recruiting is an equal opportunity employer and service provider and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, sexual orientation, disability, political affiliation or belief, or any other protected class. We are committed to the principles of Equal Opportunity Employment and are dedicated to making employment decisions based on merit and value, for ourselves, our client companies, and for the candidates we represent. We engage in socially conscious business practices and believe that diverse, equitable, inclusive, and non-biased talent and recruitment processes are foundational to the success of every organization that we partner with.

Meet Your Recruiter

Joely Downing
Senior Recruiter

Joely spent most of her career in the hotel business and started recruiting in the Hospitality field before coming to Rainier Recruiting.  Outside of work, Joely enjoys time with family and friends and traveling. Confident she can find the best candidates from anywhere, she is hoping to move her desk permanently to Mexico sooner than later.    

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