Technical Recruiter

⭐ About daydream

daydream builds growth marketing playbooks for the world’s fastest growing companies.

Note: This role requires candidates to be in-person, in-office 3 days per week in our Hayes Valley, San Francisco office.

We believe the future of growth marketing is one where companies pay for outcomes, rather than tools. Today, we leverage a combination of AI-enabled services + software to execute SEO growth playbooks for companies like Clay, Descript, and Beacons and dozens of others. In the future, we'll expand our capabilities across the entire growth marketing stack, encompassing all essential customer acquisition channels.

We've raised $6.2M from leading investors like First Round Capital, Basis Set Ventures, WndrCo, SOMA Capital and current and former Heads of Growth at companies like Notion, Airtable, Webflow and Dropbox as well as notable angels like Lenny Rachitsky and Eli Schwartz, Author of Product-Led SEO.

🔧 The problem we’re trying to solve

Every company needs to do two things:

1. Build a product.

2. Acquire customers.

There are three ways to acquire customers — sales, product-led growth, and growth marketing. Of these three, growth marketing is particularly hard to staff for because great internal talent is find (ex. in SEO, there are probably <20 people who we would consider world-class), and time-consuming to ramp.

Then there’s the agencies, but agencies are often slow, lack strong technical talent, and in general are associated with poor quality of outcomes.

🧑‍💻 How we’re solving this problem

daydream is different — we’ve built a vertically integrated software + services stack with a singular goal in mind — deliver outstanding outcomes for every customer we service, repeatedly and consistently in a fraction of the time they expect. While we’ve started with SEO, we expect to expand to all other major growth marketing channels over the near future.

👷🏻‍♀️ What you’ll be doing

As our first recruiting hire, you’ll build the talent foundation of Daydream. This is a roll-up-your-sleeves, no-task-too-small kind of role where you’ll have outsized impact across the business. Your mission: find, engage, and close top-tier technical talent, while shaping a thoughtful, human-first recruiting experience.

• Source like a founder: Proactively identify and engage exceptional engineers, product managers, and technical operators. You’ll craft custom, compelling, and anti-AI outreach that cuts through the noise and makes people want to talk to us.

• Build from scratch: Develop recruiting processes, scorecards, interview plans, and systems that scale — without losing the personal touch.

• Partner across the business: Work directly with hiring managers and founders to deeply understand role requirements, raise the talent bar, and drive clarity.

• Own the candidate experience: Make every interaction memorable, respectful, and aligned with Daydream’s values. You’ll be the face of the company for many candidates.

• Drive offers and close: Collaborate on compensation, manage negotiations, and help bring candidates across the finish line — with clarity, care, and speed.

🚀 What your first 4 months will look like

Month 1–2

• Ramp up quickly on our product, mission, team structure, and hiring roadmap

• Step into a steady flow of active roles and immediate recruiting needs

• Start sourcing and engaging high-caliber candidates using existing tools and messaging

• Build context by partnering closely with hiring managers and shadowing interviews to learn our talent bar and decision criteria

Month 3–4

• Refine how we source, qualify, and engage high-fit candidates across functions

• Begin owning full-cycle recruiting for key roles, from intake to close

• Identify gaps in our hiring process and candidate experience; propose and test improvements

• Help lay the foundation for a repeatable, high-quality hiring engine as the team scales

✅ You’ll thrive in this role if you

• 4+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally in a startup or fast-paced technical environment.

• Proven ability to source and engage high-caliber technical talent through creative outreach and relationship-building.

• Excellent instincts on talent quality, hiring signals, and leveling.

• Strong communication skills and the ability to earn trust quickly.

• Comfortable building structure in ambiguity — you don’t wait to be told what to do.

• Passion for candidate experience and high empathy for people navigating career decisions.

• Excitement about being a founding team member and building Daydream’s recruiting culture from the ground up.

❌ This role won’t be a fit if you

• Prefer following a rigid recruiting script instead of iterating and improving the process as you go

• Aren’t comfortable learning the technical side of our product or engaging with deeply experienced candidates

• Are looking for a slow-moving, highly structured recruiting org—this is early-stage and evolving quickly

• Don’t enjoy autonomy or the pressure and ownership that comes with filling critical roles end-to-end

🧠 What you’ll gain

• A front-row seat to how top-tier teams are built at high-growth startups

• Direct access to founders, hiring managers, and leaders across engineering, product, and business functions

• An active role in shaping and scaling a high-performing recruiting engine from the ground up

• High visibility, high ownership, and the opportunity to define how we attract, evaluate, and close world-class talent

💸 Compensation

• Competitive base salary $130,000 - $170,000 + generous equity in daydream

• Full health, dental, and vision coverage

• Unlimited PTO + flexible schedule

• Annual team offsite