🤝 Technical Recruiter

Runway is a collaborative business planning platform designed to make business intuitively understandable for everyone.

Our Mission: To make business accessible and understandable to everyone. We believe that teams that understand the “why” behind their work are more productive and make better decisions. True alignment and collaboration come from having a shared source of truth that everyone understands.

Our Approach: Runway replaces traditional spreadsheets with a modern planning platform that brings clarity and context to business operations for all teams - not just finance. Just as Figma made design accessible across the organization, Runway does the same for business planning.

Why It Matters: Understanding requires more than just access to numbers; real collaboration happens when teams see how their work fits into the bigger picture. By providing this context, Runway helps teams save time and move faster.

Our Customers: World-class companies like AngelList, Superhuman, Stability.AI, ConvertKit, Lambda Labs, Lob, and SandboxVR rely on Runway to run their businesses more efficiently.

Our Investors: We are supported by a select group of investors that we admire, including Garry Tan (YC & Initialized), a16z, Elad Gil, Naval Ravikant, Dylan Field (founder of Figma), Eric Ries, Claire Hughes Johnson (COO of Stripe), Henry Ward (founder of Carta), Akshay Kothari (COO of Notion), Eugene Wei, Lenny Rachitsky, Nikita Bier, Scott Belsky, Soleio Cuervo, Balaji Srinivasan, and many others.

We're early, so you'll have an opportunity to shape not just our product, but the company itself: who we work with, and how we work together.

We strive to be clear in our communication and over-communicate by default.

We're remote-first, so you can work from anywhere in North America. However, we also believe in the value of face-time to solve really hard problems, so we:

• Meet together as a company every quarter in our San Francisco office.

• Open up offices in places with many teammates (we currently have offices in SF and NYC).

• Make it easy to fly out and meet together.

Below are the values we share as a team, so if you like these, you’ll enjoy working here.

Giving a shit can’t be taught. It’s an inner drive that compels you to do what’s right and do it well. Have passion, take pride, and care deeply about your impact.

Cut through ambiguity and reveal the truth. Start with why, then answer how and what. Treat problems like puzzles, dig deeper, and find the right path.

With trust, it’s safe to take risks. We get there by being open, honest, and accountable. Actively listen, speak your mind, and consistently show up.

Scrap the status quo and push yourself to create something that wows. Get others excited to do the same. Iterate, elevate, and don’t stop moving forward.

You'll be the specialist who brings top engineering talent through the door—sourcing exceptional candidates, managing the full recruiting lifecycle, and delivering outstanding candidate experiences. You'll partner closely with our Head of Talent and engineering hiring managers, owning end-to-end recruiting for engineering roles while helping us scale our technical team.

• Full-Cycle Recruiting

  • Own the full recruiting lifecycle for all engineering, product, and design roles (whether full-stack engineers, product managers, or designers) ensuring a thoughtful and engaging candidate experience from first touch to offer acceptance.

  • Serve as a candidate's first impression of Runway, sharing our mission, values, and culture in ways that inspire them to engage with us.

  • Track key recruiting metrics and leverage data to measure effectiveness, pipeline health, forecast hiring needs, and drive continuous improvement in our hiring strategies.

  • Build and maintain strong talent pipelines through proactive sourcing

  • Partner with hiring managers on role scoping and interview processes (vs. "advising on strategy")

  • Ensure exceptional candidate experience from first touch through offer acceptance

• Build Excellent Talent Pipelines

  • Source and engage passive candidates through creative outreach strategies, leveraging advanced search techniques, technical communities, and diverse sourcing channels to build strong talent pipelines.

  • Build long-term relationships with candidates and technical communities, creating ongoing pipelines for future hiring needs.

  • Continue Runway's commitment to a diverse team by supporting inclusive sourcing practices.

• 4+ years of technical recruiting experience, especially in startups or high-growth companies, with a proven track record of identifying, qualifying, and closing exceptional technical talent.

• Startup DNA - You thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments where you're building systems from scratch and not afraid to try something new.

• A sourcing superpower - You're skilled at discovering hidden talent through advanced search techniques and creative sourcing channels. You know how to find candidates who aren't actively looking and get them excited about new opportunities.

• Data-driven approach - You track the right metrics, use data to optimize your process, and can forecast pipeline health and hiring timelines.

• Technical fluency - You can speak credibly with engineers, product managers, and designers about their work, assess technical skills effectively, and understand what it takes to build out a great team.

• Strategic mindset - You balance high-volume recruiting with maintaining quality, anticipate roadblocks proactively, and you're comfortable advising hiring managers on hiring strategy, market trends, and talent density.

• Outstanding communication skills - You deliver high-quality recruiting experiences while respecting candidates' and hiring managers' time. You're a team player who's comfortable wearing multiple hats.

• Commitment to inclusive hiring - You're passionate about building diverse teams and have experience implementing strategies to source and engage candidates from across all backgrounds.

• Process-building experience - You’re comfortable working collaboratively in a modern ATS. You've built or helped refine recruiting processes, interview frameworks, and you know how to scale without sacrificing candidate experience.

• Hands-on experience with Ashby; familiarity with sourcing tools and other recruiting platforms

• In-house startup experience

• A strong network in the engineering, product, and design communities

• Previous experience recruiting for technical roles across multiple specializations (backend, frontend, infra, etc.)

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At Runway, our commitment to our mission goes hand in hand with our dedication to cultivating the next generation of entrepreneurs. Around 10% of our team members have been founders themselves, and several early employees have successfully exited to start their own ventures - some backed by our founder Siqi Chen, who has invested in over 200 startups to date.

By stepping into this role, you’ll help shape and grow an array of customer businesses, gaining firsthand insights into diverse operational strategies, monetization models, and long-term vision planning. Paired with our open and transparent culture, Runway offers a uniquely supportive environment for those aspiring to launch their own company in the future.

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The base salary range for this full-time position is $160,000-$175,000 USD + generous early employee equity + benefits. The range displayed in this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salary for this position. Within the range, individual pay is determined by various factors, including job-related skills (as uncovered during the interview process), experience, and relevant education or training.

Please note that the compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity or benefits.