Workstream is a mission-driven company building the all-in-one HR, payroll, and hiring platform for managing the hourly workforce. There are 2.7 billion hourly workers, making up 80% of the global workforce, but this market has been heavily underserved by technology and deserves better. Workstream has been purpose-built for the hourly workforce from day one so that these businesses and their employees can thrive.
Our customers include leading brands from multiple sectors, including Burger King, Carl's Jr./Hardee's, IHOP, KFC, and Culvers. We are a high growth series B company and quickly expanding our product portfolio to deliver on our vision. We are backed by legendary VCs and industry experts like Founders Fund, BOND, and Coatue.
Grow With Us
We are looking for a highly driven, entrepreneurial, and results-oriented Founding Recruiter to join the AI Agency startup we're building and become the very first recruiting hire dedicated to scaling the organization.
This is a unique opportunity to build the recruiting function from the ground up within a fast-growing AI startup environment. As the first recruiter on the team, you will play a critical role in shaping how we attract, engage, and hire exceptional talent. You'll partner directly with founders and business leaders, helping define recruiting strategies, processes, and best practices that will support the company's growth for years to come.
This role is ideal for someone with a staffing or agency recruiting background who thrives in fast-paced, high-growth environments and enjoys building from zero to one. You will own the full recruiting lifecycle—from sourcing and outreach through offer acceptance—while serving as a strategic partner to hiring managers and leadership.
Unlike traditional corporate recruiting roles, this position requires a strong hunter mentality. You should be energized by ambitious hiring goals, proactive sourcing, candidate engagement, and building talent pipelines from scratch. You'll have the opportunity to influence hiring strategy, establish recruiting operations, and help shape the culture of a company at an exciting stage of growth.
Success in this role requires urgency, creativity, resilience, and accountability. You'll work closely with founders and key stakeholders to build scalable recruiting processes, accelerate hiring velocity, and ensure we attract the talent needed to bring our vision to life.
If you're excited by the idea of being the first recruiter at an AI startup, wearing multiple hats, and helping build something from the ground up, we'd love to meet you.
Travel and Location
This role will be 4 to 5 days in our San Francisco and/or Menlo Park office, and will be a rapidly growing role that works closely with the co-founders.
Day In The Life
- Own full-cycle recruiting across a variety of functions and hiring levels
- Proactively source, engage, and nurture candidates through outbound recruiting efforts
- Build and manage strong talent pipelines using LinkedIn, job boards, referrals, networking, and creative sourcing strategies
- Develop compelling outreach campaigns that drive candidate engagement and conversion
- Screen, interview, and assess candidates against role requirements and company culture
- Partner closely with hiring managers to understand hiring needs, align on candidate profiles, and drive hiring decisions
- Manage recruiting pipelines, hiring metrics, and candidate funnel performance
- Operate with a strong sense of urgency to meet aggressive hiring goals and timelines
- Track and report recruiting performance metrics, pipeline health, and hiring forecasts
- Deliver an exceptional candidate experience throughout the recruiting process
- Help refine recruiting processes, sourcing strategies, and operational workflows as the team scales
- Help manage other US role requisitions and support sourcing and other recruitment initiatives, where needed
Who You Are
- Competitive, proactive, and highly motivated by results
- A natural hunter who enjoys finding talent others cannot
- Resourceful and persistent when faced with recruiting challenges
- Comfortable operating with metrics, goals, and accountability
- Entrepreneurial in your approach and excited by building new processes
- Energized by high-growth environments and ambitious hiring targets
- Collaborative team player who can partner effectively across functions
- 5+ years of experience in agency recruiting, staffing, executive search, or high-volume recruiting environments
- Proven track record of consistently meeting or exceeding recruiting goals and performance targets
- Strong sourcing capabilities with experience building pipelines from scratch
- Demonstrated ability to operate independently and drive results with minimal oversight
- Exceptional communication, relationship-building, and influencing skills
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple searches simultaneously
- Experience using ATS platforms, recruiting tools, and sourcing technologies
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment with evolving priorities
- High ownership mindset and willingness to take accountability for outcomes
- Willingness to work from the Menlo Park office for 5 days per week
- Experience in staffing, recruiting agencies, or talent marketplaces
- Experience recruiting for startups or high-growth technology companies
- Familiarity with hourly workforce, staffing, or workforce management industries
- Experience recruiting across both technical and non-technical roles
- Prior experience helping build or scale a recruiting function
What We Offer
- A mission-driven and value-based company dedicated to empower deskless workers and local businesses
- An early employee opportunity at a Series B hyper-growth startup; work with the founding team and industry veterans to accelerate your career
- Competitive salary and equity
- Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision. We pay 95% of your premiums for our employees and 85% for dependents
- In office amenities and stocked kitchen
- 401K Plan
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Learning/development stipend
- Flexible PTO
Salary Range
In compliance with the California Pay Transparency Law, the base salary range for this role is between $90,000 and $120,000 in California, with a target 10% annual performance bonus tied to recruiting outcomes. Based on target bonus attainment, the expected total annual cash compensation is approximately $99,000 to $132,000. This range is not inclusive of our discretionary bonus or equity package. When determining a candidate’s compensation, we consider a number of factors, including skill set, experience, job scope, and current market data.
Know More About Workstream
- https://www.workstream.us/blog/funding-series-b
- https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/26/workstreams-text-based-recruitment-tool-gets-a-48m-bet-from-bond-and-beyond/
- https://techbuzz.news/buzzworthy-august-27-2021/
Additional Information
Workstream provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
We are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience in agency recruiting, staffing, executive search, or high-volume recruiting
- Proven track record of consistently meeting or exceeding recruiting goals and performance targets
- Strong sourcing capabilities with experience building pipelines from scratch
- Experience using ATS platforms, recruiting tools, and sourcing technologies
- Exceptional communication, relationship-building, and influencing skills
- Strong organizational skills with ability to manage multiple searches simultaneously
- Comfortable operating with metrics, goals, and accountability
- Entrepreneurial mindset, resourceful, proactive hunter mentality
- Willingness to work from the Menlo Park or San Francisco office (4-5 days per week)
- Experience recruiting across both technical and non-technical roles
- Experience in staffing, recruiting agencies, or talent marketplaces
- Prior experience helping build or scale a recruiting function
What We Do
Workstream (www.workstream.us) is a text recruiting and hiring tool for local businesses, especially restaurants. We help you to hire faster with texting / SMS, cutting in half the time to engage, hire and onboard hourly workers. We save companies 30+ hours every week by making your hiring process streamlined, automated and finding you the right talent when you need it. We have helped business owners and operators from Jamba, Chick-fil-A, McDonald's, Dunkin', Applebee's, Auntie Anne's, Cinnabon and more to increase efficiency by over 150%, increasing their bottom line and creating significant cost savings. We are a team from MIT, Google, Yelp, Stanford, Cornell, and backed by investors including Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, Charles River Ventures, CEO Zoom, Jay Z, CEO DoorDash, Joe Montana, James Harden, COO Yelp, CEO Logitech, Chairman Louis Vuitton (LVMH), Chairman JetBlue, Peterson Ventures, GGV Capital, CEO Intercom, and more.
