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Founding Recruiting Lead

SilkChart · San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US) · Remote

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About SilkChart

AI Sales Assistant to increase playbook adoption and win more deals. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

Win clients. Convert your existing book and open new accounts — fast-growing, VC-backed startups hiring for hard-to-fill technical roles. Own those accounts end to end: relationships, expansion, renewals.

What they're looking for

  • Agency, freelance, or founder background — 5+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting at an agency, on your own desk, or running your own firm
  • Relationships with partners at top VCs and experience sourcing clients through portfolio referrals
  • Startup + technical depth — you've placed founding engineers, AI/ML and deep tech talent, or early GTM hires at Series A–C startups and know what great looks like at that stage
  • Proven BD ability — founders and hiring managers respond when you reach out, and $500K+ in annual billings you personally generated. You're as comfortable selling a search as running one
More about this role

SilkTalent is an AI native recruiting firm. We back the best recruiters with best-in-class recruiting tools and custom-built products proven to drive higher response rates and faster fills .

This is a unique opportunity to join as a founding partner and shape an entirely new HR Tech product from scratch, — built around your needs and perspective. Run more searches, close more clients, and keep the upside of the business you build. In short: your book, your clients, our technology and capital behind you.

Top investors : Raised $5M+ from top investors including Y Combinator, SoftBank, and top execs from Instacart, Twitter, General Catalyst, Asana, and Ramp

Rare seat in recruiting tech: you're the industry behind a new platform built to supercharge recruiter impact — what you'd fix about recruiting is what we build.

Rapid growth: We’ve doubled revenue monthly since launch, and are already profitable

Team quality: Our team has built and scaled products at Meta, Amazon, Instacart, Twitter, Microsoft, and Squarespace, and studied at Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and Yale.

Directly shaping the products we build. As the first user, the products you shape come back to you as leverage: more...

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