Pocket Founding Recruiter at Pocket manages full-cycle recruiting for all open roles across multiple departments. Responsible for sourcing, screening, closing, and building hiring processes in collaboration with founders.
Responsibilities
Pocket has passed $100M ARR and 300,000+ devices sold with a very small team. We're YC W26, backed by Accel, and we've hit the point where hiring is the bottleneck.
We have 25+ roles to fill in the next two quarters across Engineering, Research, Marketing, Ops, Finance, GTM, and Support. Right now the founders run every search themselves. We want you to take that over and build how Pocket hires.
This is not an HR role and not an agency-management role. You source, you screen, you close.
Location: SF (hybrid / on-site)
Qualification
4–6+ years of full-cycle recruitingYou source every weekConsumer techInternational hiring (EuropeYou define how Pocket hires
Required
4–6+ years of full-cycle recruiting, at least part of it in-house at a fast-growing startup
You've closed both technical and business roles, and you can show the numbers
You source every week, personally, and you're good at it
You can run 10+ searches in parallel without dropping candidates
You can tell a strong candidate from a polished one, and you'll push back on us when a role is badly defined or the bar is slipping
You can explain startup equity to a candidate clearly and honestly
Preferred
First or early recruiter at a seed or Series A company
Experience hiring ML / speech / LLM researchers
Consumer tech, DTC, e-commerce, or hardware background
International hiring (Europe, India), EOR and contractor setups
You already use AI tools to move faster on sourcing and outreach
You build the team of a company scaling from hundreds of thousands to millions of customers
You work directly with the founders and every team lead, with no layers in between
You define how Pocket hires. There is no legacy process to inherit
