Founding Recruiter

🚀 About Flow

Flow is massively accelerating the development of next-generation hardware systems. We’re on a mission to reinvent the way humanity develops its most important machines.

We’re backed by Sequoia Capital with angel investors including Patrick & John Collison (Stripe), David Helgason (Unity) and Kyle Parrish (Figma).

Flow is the default requirements tool for complex systems engineering used by next gen space, defense, automotive and robotics companies. When humanity returns to the Moon, builds fusion power, or lands the first interplanetary colony - Flow will have played a vital role.

👷‍♂️ What You’ll Do

As Flow’s first recruiter, you will build out our team across both technical and non-technical roles from the ground up. You will partner directly with our founder, investors, and team leads to shape and execute our recruiting strategy. This role will set the tone for how we attract, assess, and hire people who will define Flow’s future.

• Build and continuously refine a recruiting playbook (process, tools, candidate experience) tailored for quickly scaling a Series A company
• Lead the recruitment process from end-to-end, from crafting JDs, sourcing candidates, coordinating interviews, extending offers, and closing candidates.
• Work closely with hiring managers to deeply understand technical and cultural requirements
• Source candidates creatively, leveraging your network and building new pipelines through outbound, events, and partnerships
• Serve as a thought partner to the Founder and leadership team on compensation bands, organization structure, role calibration, and candidate experience optimization
• Establish recruiting metrics and reporting
  
  

🧠 About You

• 4 years of experience in technical recruiting with a proven track record of filling a variety of technical and non-technical positions
• Experience in full-cycle recruiting, ideally in a fast-paced high-growth startup
• Strong sourcing chops with ability to engage passive candidates that are top of their field - you’re a hunter through-and-through
• Thrive in zero-to-one environments balancing multiple roles and stakeholders with urgency and prioritization
• Passion for building teams and cultures from the ground up
• Strong communication skills with ability to build trust with both candidates and internal team
• High agency high organizational skills - ability to manage multiple searches and stakeholders at once
  
  

♥️ What We Value

• Speed over everything. If you go over a pothole at 20 mph, you really feel it. If you go over at 200 mph, you barely feel it. Everything we do, we need to do with urgency. This is our superpower and why we win. This is a discipline that requires effort and focus every day.
• Own, Downscope, ship, iterate: We work in small, fast cycles. Our philosophy is to downscope and ship. The goal is to get a v1 out today and learn from seeing it used. We work with users not at them. Execution is the sole currency by which our customers value us. This does not always mean success at the first iteration, but we must be fully committed to delivering.
• Fundamentals done well: Most success comes from mastering the basics. The trade off is always scope, never quality. This is why we prioritize simplicity. Doing so requires extreme clarity of thought: a talent for cutting to the essence of a problem, communicating it well and then solving it.
• Disagree and Commit: To move fast, we have to decide fast. That means debating ideas hard, then committing fully once a decision is made.
• Enjoy the climb: Climbing Everest is hard. The air thins, your body falters, and you pass those who didn’t make it. But we’re here to keep climbing. This is the work that will define us. Enjoy the climb. The view at the top only means something if you loved the journey getting there.
  
  

Compensation Range: $180K - $210K