Avante
Lead Recruiter
Seattle, WA · Senior · Part-time
Sponsorship not specified$160k-$210kDetected 67 days ago
Agentic AIOutbound SalesLogisticsRecruitingCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- We are hiring our first in-house recruiter at the inflection point where hiring stops being something that the founding team can absorb part-time.
- The next twelve months are the most active hiring stretch in Avante's history, and the person in this seat will set the bar for every hire that follows.
- In any given month you will be running a variety of key searches across engineering, GTM, operations and customer-facing roles.
Responsibilities
- Own the full recruiting funnel from intake through offer accept across every function. Build the pipeline, run the process, debrief the panels, close the candidates.
- Run, not just attend, the hiring process. Drive the program-management muscle that contract recruiters typically don't: weekly hiring manager reviews, scorecard discipline, calibration sessions, offer logistics, and clean handoffs to onboarding.
- Manage external partners. Coordinate with fractional recruiting partners and agencies on overflow and specialized searches
- Experiment with sourcing channels. Run the public-posting experiment on Lever, evaluate inbound vs. outbound conversion, and build a referral engine inside Avante.
- Be the data layer for hiring. Maintain accurate pipeline metrics (time-to-fill, pass-through rates, source mix, offer accept rate) and report them weekly to leadership.
- Build the recruiting playbook. Write down what works. Codify interview guides, scorecards, and intake templates so future hires can plug in.
- A program manager at heart. You build process, hold people to it, and keep things moving without being asked twice.
- Avante is building with AI agents that didn't exist three months ago.
- Your hiring process will use the same tools we build.
- We re-evaluate our own toolkit every quarter, because the workflows that made you effective three months ago may already be outdated.
Requirements
- 5+ years of in-house recruiting experience at a high-growth startup or adjacent recruiting agency, ideally one that scaled from under 50 to several hundred people.
- You have personally closed across engineering, GTM, and ops, not just one function.
- You can spot a strong operator in a 20-minute screen and tell the difference between a talker and a doer.
- You can write a clean intake doc, sell the company to a skeptical senior candidate, and push back on a hiring manager who is grading on the wrong rubric.
Skills
- None of these searches look the same.
Compensation
- Competitive base salary, and meaningful early-stage equity.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary, and meaningful early-stage equity.
- Full benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).
- Learn enough about adjacent functions to ask good questions, including what your AEs are saying on calls, how brokers actually make money, and why a benefits committee pushes back on a deal.
- Ask the question you think is too basic, because in complex domains like benefits, the cost of a wrong assumption can be a lost account.
- Learning has to translate into action on a timeline that matches the opportunity.
Company info
- Avante is on a mission to transform how self-funded employers manage their benefits and HR operations. Our AI-powered SaaS platform helps employers shift from reactive firefighting to strategic planning, while providing employees with the guidance they need to truly understand and maximize their benefits. Employee benefits represent the second-largest expense for most businesses, yet the landscape is fragmented, complex, and difficult to navigate. Avante unifies fragmented benefits data and provides AI-driven insights that help employers control costs while delivering an exceptional employee experience. We are based in Seattle with an in-office culture (4 days a week) to drive community, collaboration, and ideation.
- The Role
- We are hiring our first in-house recruiter at the inflection point where hiring stops being something that the founding team can absorb part-time. The next twelve months are the most active hiring stretch in Avante's history, and the person in this seat will set the bar for every hire that follows.
- In any given month you will be running a variety of key searches across engineering, GTM, operations and customer-facing roles. None of these searches look the same. The expectation is that you can run all of them at once, either directly or via oversight of external recruiting partners.
- Avante is on a mission to transform how self-funded employers manage their benefits and HR operations.
- Our AI-powered SaaS platform helps employers shift from reactive firefighting to strategic planning, while providing employees with the guidance they need to truly understand and maximize their benefits.
- Employee benefits represent the second-largest expense for most businesses, yet the landscape is fragmented, complex, and difficult to navigate.
- Avante unifies fragmented benefits data and provides AI-driven insights that help employers control costs while delivering an exceptional employee experience.
- We are based in Seattle with an in-office culture (4 days a week) to drive community, collaboration, and ideation.
- Act Like an Owner. We say the uncomfortable thing early, raising missed commitments or quality gaps directly with the person within 48 hours. We surface problems when they're small, not the week they become a crisis. Customer-facing work gets priority, always. And we close the loop every time, because over-communication is a feature at our stage, not a bug.
- You will also be the first recruiter in the building who has to figure out what hiring looks like when the company is itself an AI agent platform.
- We are on by default, because we owe it to each other and to our customers to be available beyond what a regular corporate job would demand.
Equal opportunity
- We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion at our company.
This listing is sourced directly from Avante's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.