January

Recruiter

New York City · Exec

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About the role

As a Recruiter at January, you run full-cycle searches across engineering, product, operations, and business.
We treat recruiting as a science, not an art.
You'll run structured searches, learn to read what a candidate actually wants and sell to it, and bring the same curiosity to making our process better.

Own 4-6 concurrent searches from first outreach to offer close.
Source and identify candidates. Build pipelines through proactive sourcing: LinkedIn, boolean, referrals. Read past the credential, and tell strong from merely good.
Partner with hiring managers. Run structured kickoffs, set expectations on process and timeline, keep hiring managers engaged. Learn to coach them toward better evaluation.
As a Recruiter at January, you run full-cycle searches across engineering, product, operations, and business. You own them end-to-end and sharpen the instinct to read good candidates across a range of roles.
Run full-cycle searches. Own 4-6 concurrent searches from first outreach to offer close. Keep pipelines moving and hiring managers informed.
You own them end-to-end and sharpen the instinct to read good candidates across a range of roles.
Partner with hiring managers.
You build pipelines.

Comfort in ambiguity.
You know that clarity scales and that a well-written doc often accomplishes more than an hour-long meeting.
Curiosity as your core instrument. You ask the fewest, sharpest questions to understand what a candidate actually wants. Then sell to that, not to a script. And you want to know why the process works, not just that it does.
A growing eye for talent. You're learning to read past the credential, and you're curious about what makes a good candidate good.
Quality over speed. You'd rather escalate a doubt than wave a borderline candidate through.
Proactive sourcing. You build pipelines. You don't just work the inbound ones.
Follow-through across many searches. You run several at once without letting candidates or hiring managers go dark.
Comfort in ambiguity. You move in a fast environment without needing every step defined first.
2-4 years of full-cycle recruiting in a startup, tech company, or staffing/agency environment. Technical recruiting exposure is a plus, not a requirement.
Collaborative Ownership beats Fiefdoms. You step into gaps without being asked. You fix issues. You seek to bring in the right people.
Speed beats perfection. You make decisions with incomplete information, iterate quickly, and course-correct based on what you learn. Fast loops beat slow ones.
Candor beats comfort. You give direct feedback because you care about people's growth. You'd rather hear a hard truth early than a polite sidestep that wastes time.

2-4 years of full-cycle recruiting in a startup, tech company, or staffing/agency environment.

As a New York City-based company, we are dedicated to transparent, fair, and equitable compensation practices that reflect our commitment to fostering an environment where all team members are valued and supported.

Surface what you notice about pipeline health to the team.
You're learning to read past the credential, and you're curious about what makes a good candidate good.

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