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Founding Technical Recruiter

Lightfield
Full-time
On-site
San Francisco, California, United States
$175,000 - $240,000 USD yearly
Human Resources (HR) & Recruitment

About Lightfield

Lightfield is a next-generation CRM that automatically captures customer interactions like emails, meetings, and support tickets and organizes them into structured CRM data, enabling deep analysis of customer activity and powerful automation.

Unlike traditional CRMs, Lightfield continuously learns from how you sell and who you sell to, directly from the words of customers and actual workflows in the system. With this data, Lightfield proactively manages customer tasks, automates personalized customer communication, and delivers the visibility and insights needed for teams to continually refine their go-to-market strategy.

The company is initially focused on becoming the first comprehensive system of record and go-to-market platform for high-growth technology companies. With a flexible and scalable model for data capture and organization, Lightfield is designed to be the last CRM and GTM-automation tool our companies will ever need.

Our team previously built Tome, a generative AI presentation product used by over 25 million people, gaining deep expertise in context management, effective evaluation loops, and user-interaction design for generative AI. Before Tome, many of us worked on Llama, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, Pinterest, and Salesforce.

What You’ll Own

  • End‑to‑end recruitment for engineering, design, and business—from perfecting the pitch to closing top‑tier ML, infra, and product engineers.

  • Talent strategy & employer brand—define what “great” looks like at Lightfield, craft compelling narratives, and position us as the place that uncompromising builders want to work.

  • Sourcing engine from zero → one—stand up repeatable, data‑driven pipelines across outbound, referrals, events, and community engagement.

  • Process architecture—implement enough tooling and process across the ATS and communication channels to make sure that we never drop the ball with a great candidate.

  • Candidate experience—run a crisp, respectful process that converts skeptics into champions, whether or not we hire them.

  • Leadership partnership—coach hiring managers on calibration, interviewing, and closing; provide weekly insight on funnel health and time‑to‑hire.

Who You Are

  • 4+ years of full‑cycle recruiting with a heavy focus on scaling early‑stage engineering teams

  • Proven closer—you have landed senior/staff‑level engineers in competitive markets and can articulate your win stories

  • Builder’s mindset—you’ve created or overhauled recruiting systems in ambiguous, low‑infrastructure environments

  • High technical bar—you understand modern ML and software stacks well enough to separate signal from noise

  • Autonomous & decisive—comfortable operating as a team of one, making trade‑offs quickly, and iterating without hand‑holding

Benefits & Perks

  • Competitive salary

  • Meaningful early equity

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision)

  • 3 weeks of PTO

  • 11 paid company holidays + we enjoy a winter holiday break

  • 3 months of paid family leave

  • Wednesdays work from home

  • Regular team dinners, events, offsites, and retreats

  • 401k plan

  • Other perks include: commuter and lunch stipend