About the Role
We’re looking for a founding Technical Recruiter to build and own our technical hiring function, both for our internal team and for our partner companies through Builders, a talent platform of Pensive.
In this role, you’ll work directly with the founders of Pensive and the founders of our partner companies, from defining roles and sourcing exceptional candidates to closing offers.
Your job is to help us hire and place exceptional engineers quickly while delivering a thoughtful, high-quality candidate experience. Because this is a founding role, you’ll also help shape our recruiting strategy, processes, systems, and tooling as the company grows.
Who You Are
• 1+ year of technical recruiting experience at a fast-growing technology company or a top recruiting agency.
• Strong grasp of technical skills, engineering roles, and how engineering organizations work.
• A proven closer who has landed senior and staff-level engineers in competitive markets, and can clearly explain how.
• Comfortable with speed and ambiguity. Priorities shift, roles evolve, and the hiring bar keeps moving, and you adapt without losing momentum.
• Autonomous and decisive. You can operate as a team of one, make trade-offs without hand-holding, and iterate quickly.
• Comfortable using AI, automation, and new tools to improve sourcing, evaluation, and recruiting workflows.
Nice to Have
• Experience working at a recruiting agency.
• CS degree or prior software engineering experience.
• Experience with AI-native or agentic recruiting tools.
Skills Required
- 1+ year of technical recruiting experience at a fast-growing technology company or top recruiting agency
- Strong understanding of technical skills, engineering roles, and engineering organizations
- Proven ability to close senior- and staff-level engineers in competitive markets
- Ability to work effectively in fast-paced, ambiguous environments
- Autonomous and decisive; able to operate independently as a team of one
- Comfort using AI, automation, and new tools to improve recruiting workflows
- Recruiting agency experience
- Computer Science degree or prior software engineering experience
- Experience with AI-native or agentic recruiting tools
What We Do
Pensive is an AI-powered grading and tutoring platform designed for higher education. It automates grading tasks for universities running large lectures and provides personalized feedback to students, which can reduce grading time by up to ten times compared to traditional methods. The platform helps professors and teaching assistants manage feedback efficiently while bridging the gap between massive scale and personal engagement in the AI era.
