About Primary
Primary is a seed-stage venture capital firm dedicated to delivering exceptional support to the founders of transformational businesses. By pairing meaningful investment resources with the largest portfolio impact team of any seed investor, our portfolio companies have reached an industry-best seed-to-A graduation rate.
About the role
We are searching for a Talent Analyst to join Primary’s Impact team to help hire the best talent for Primary portfolio companies. This position will report to a Principal on our People & Networks team and be a member of our embedded recruiting function - providing full cycle recruiting services and recruiting enablement to a Primary portfolio company.
This role requires working across several searches at once in partnership with a senior member of the embedded recruiting team. You’ll have a strong focus on top-of-funnel work like talent mapping, sourcing, and screening along with managing candidates.
The ideal candidate has 1-2 years of prior work experience in recruiting with a track record of proactively communicating, operating with pace and urgency, and a strong desire to to develop exceptional sourcing and recruiting skills.
What you’ll do
Source, screen, and interview candidates for a variety of positions both technical and non-technical with a focus on quality
Manage candidate relationships from start to finish, ensuring a top tier experience for all candidates and hiring managers alike
Build relationships with leaders and quickly calibrate on ideal candidate profiles
Manage and maintain recruiting related data across Applicant Tracking Systems and sourcing tools
About you
1-2 years of experience in recruiting, likely in an agency or search setting with exposure to client management
Evidence of using and experimenting with AI tooling to make your work more efficient
A strong desire to learn the ins and outs of both technical and non-technical recruiting
Experience working with senior leaders and providing top tier stakeholder management
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
You must be able to work out of the Primary office in NYC 3 days/week.
Top Skills
What We Do
Primary is New York’s leading early stage firm, with a billion in assets under management and 50 full time employees. The team commits unreasonable resources to create unfair advantages for the world’s top founders.
Primary’s Impact team outnumbers investors 2:1, and is filled with seasoned executives working alongside founders to supercharge growth and secure quality hires, early customers, and downstream investors. This team embeds with companies for 2,500 hours of high-intensity fractional leadership work, conducts 3,000 candidate interviews, maintains a pool of 5,000+ active job seekers, and hosts 250 events large and small for the NYC tech community each year.
Cofounders Brad Svrluga and Ben Sun have won recognition from Forbes' Midas List and Insider's Seed 100.
