What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Recruiter position at Hyperbound?
At Hyperbound (YC S23), we’re building the Sales Performance OS, a new category of sales-tech that helps enterprise sales teams practice, measure, and scale top-performer behaviors.
In the last year we raised a $15M Series A, 5xd ARR, and over doubled our headcount. In 2026 we plan on doubling headcount again to support our rapid growth.
About The Role
This is a founding role, with massive impact on the trajectory of the company. We’ll rely on you to build a high-quality, repeatable talent pipeline, increase employer brand visibility, and create predictability for hiring managers through data driven systems.
Responsibilities
We are looking for a Founding Recruiter who can:
In the last year we raised a $15M Series A, 5xd ARR, and over doubled our headcount. In 2026 we plan on doubling headcount again to support our rapid growth.
About The Role
This is a founding role, with massive impact on the trajectory of the company. We’ll rely on you to build a high-quality, repeatable talent pipeline, increase employer brand visibility, and create predictability for hiring managers through data driven systems.
Responsibilities
We are looking for a Founding Recruiter who can:
- Build and execute strategic sourcing campaigns to uncover top-tier, often passive, candidates, using creative outreach, referrals, talent mapping, and events
- Contribute to our employer brand, crafting messaging that attracts world-class builders
- Conduct phone screens, coordinate interviews, and guide candidates through each stage with clarity and speed
- Own applicant tracking system
- Collaborate with founders to craft compensation offers
- Coordinate the use of talent agencies
- 5-7 years of full lifecycle recruiting experience working on technical roles.
- Has a proven track record of sourcing and hiring passive candidates from top companies without fully relying on inbound applicants or referrals to build our talent pipeline.
- Highly autonomous and self-starting, with a founder mindset and bias toward action.
- Experience building out, tracking, and communicating recruiting metrics (pipeline health, funnel conversion, time-to-hire, etc.) to founders and department leaders.
- Great business acumen and technical intuition. You don’t need to write code, but you should be able to quickly understand what makes someone excellent at building scalable systems.
- Experience as an in-house recruiter at a fast pace series A-C company and recruiting non-technical roles are nice to haves.
- We are the leader of a category that we invented.
- Ownership over a critical function from day 1.
- Work closely with founders and leadership. You will have high visibility and high impact.
- A fast, ambitious, highly talented team that values creativity, velocity, and results.
- We have great customer traction and raised a 15M series A. Now we need the talent to take us to the next level.
- This is not a remote role! 5x/week at our SF office.
Salary : $15