What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical Recruiter position at FLORA?
About FLORA
FLORA is an applied AI HCI company building the world’s most powerful creative tools.
FLORA has all the best creative AI models across text, image and video in one infinite canvas. Connect media together to build generative workflows, iterating from initial concept to final production.
We're building the first creative operating system; a truly intelligent creative tool for the generative computing paradigm. Read our manifesto to learn why we’re building FLORA: https://www.florafauna.ai/blog/manifesto
After our viral product launch in March of 2025, we’ve been growing quickly. FLORA is used by many of the world's top creative teams (e.g. Pentagram, MSCHF, Lionsgate, Netflix), and backed by top investors, including Mike Volpi at Hanabi, Menlo Ventures, Justin Kan (Twitch founder), Gabriel Whaley (MSCHF founder), a16z Speedrun, and many more.
About the Role
At FLORA, one of our most important priorities is hiring world-class talent. As our first Technical Recruiter, you’ll build and run our technical recruiting engine from the ground up.
You’ll partner with hiring managers, candidates, and external search firms to ensure a high-signal, high-velocity hiring process.
How You'll Make an Impact
- Build the company's technical recruiting function into an effective and efficient hiring engine.
- Conduct all first-call technical candidate screens to evaluate fit with the role and the culture.
- Partner with external search firms and sourcing partners to source and vet candidates.
- Project-manage the full hiring pipeline for every open technical role, ensuring clarity, consistency, and fast decision-making across all stakeholders.
- Coordinate all scheduling and logistics for virtual and onsite interviews, ensuring a seamless and positive candidate experience.
- Gather, synthesize, and facilitate feedback from interviewers to help hiring managers make clear, confident decisions.
- Design and continually improve our hiring processes, optimizing for strong insight into candidate ability, efficiency, and candidate experience.
What We're Looking For
- 2–5 years of recruiting experience in a high-growth startup.
- Strong judgment on technical talent quality and ability to assess engineering candidates.
- Exceptional project management and coordination skills — able to keep multiple pipelines moving with precision and organization.
- Clear, warm, and direct communicator who can interface confidently with candidates and senior hiring managers.
- Passionate, purpose-led, and all-in. You are obsessed with working towards our vision and spreading it to the world.
- Hustle and work ethic. You are known for going the extra mile(s). You roll up your sleeves and consider no task beneath you.
- Relentless focus on efficiency and effectiveness. You prioritize the highest-leverage activities that have the highest ROI.
- Ownership mindset. You act like an owner - you have the highest standards of accountability for your work and proactively improve anything you see.
- Nimble. You iterate continuously (without spinning wheels), execute with an extreme sense of urgency (every minute counts), and dive into new problems & opportunities seamlessly.
- High bar for excellence low ego. You're driven to win at the highest level. You seek and welcome feedback, and do what's best for the company and team.
- Service mentality. You constantly think about how you can serve and provide value to others - to candidates, partners, and teammates.
- Daring. You bring to life bold, original ideas.