Founding Technical Recruiter
- Compensation
- $150K–$220K / yr
- Location
- New York City
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Recruiting
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Treats recruiting as an ownership role and cares deeply about quality of hire.
- Knows how to engage technical talent and can make Garage stand out through compelling outreach.
- Enjoys building processes where it helps, but prefers practical systems over heavy recruiting bureaucracy.
- Is excited by Garage’s stage: small team, high trust, high ownership, and a lot of foundational hiring still ahead.
- Full-cycle experience in hiring technical talent for software engineering, design, product development, and data science.
- A strong network with existing knowledge of the NYC startup talent market.
- Ability to close talent with a strong eye for culture fit.
- Passion for building high-performance teams in a fast-paced, innovative environment.
- Experience using Ashby, Juicebox, Metaview, Gem, Clay, ChatGPT, Claude, or other modern recruiting and AI tools.
- Strong organization in an ATS like Ashby.
Full description
About us
Our vision is to become the marketplace for everything expensive, specialized, and difficult to move. We’re building the infrastructure that powers the procurement and disposition of assets across America’s essential industries, automating everything from discovery and payments to freight, warranty, and financing. Today, Garage operates in cities and towns across all 50 states and has surpassed $100M+ in annualized transaction volume on the platform.
Our mission is to save local governments and essential services businesses time and money. We started with fire departments two years ago and have since expanded into EMS and heavy-duty, launching new verticals while growing revenue >10x last year.
If you move fast, hold a high bar, and want meaningful ownership in building a category-defining company, Garage is the place to do it.
About the role
As the Founding Technical Recruiter, you will help build the Engineering, Product, and Design teams behind Garage’s next stage of growth. You’ll partner closely with the CTO/Co-founder and engineering leaders to identify the builders who can turn a complex, mission-critical marketplace into an experience that customers love.
This is a hands-on role for someone who treats sourcing as a craft. You will own searches end to end, build targeted pipelines from scratch, run a fast and thoughtful process, and help Garage raise the bar with every hire.
- Own full-cycle hiring across engineering, product, design, and data science, partnering with founders to attract and close exceptional technical talent.
- Build and execute targeted sourcing strategies using outbound, referrals, communities, and technical communities to fill high-priority roles quickly.
- Run structured, high-quality recruiting processes, from screening through offer, while delivering an exceptional candidate experience.
- Track pipeline health in Ashby and build scalable recruiting systems and playbooks.
- Help grow out our recruiting team as the company grows.
What we’re looking for
- Treats recruiting as an ownership role and cares deeply about quality of hire.
- Knows how to engage technical talent and can make Garage stand out through compelling outreach.
- Enjoys building processes where it helps, but prefers practical systems over heavy recruiting bureaucracy.
- Is excited by Garage’s stage: small team, high trust, high ownership, and a lot of foundational hiring still ahead.
Required
- Full-cycle experience in hiring technical talent for software engineering, design, product development, and data science.