Founding Recruiter

Strella HQ (New York City) · San Francisco · 4-8 years experience · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Oct 13, 2026

At a glance

Strella is reimagining market research with AI. Our platform conducts in-depth, AI-moderated interviews and transforms customer conversations into actionable insights in a fraction of the time of traditional research.
We’re building a new model for market research that combines the speed and scale of AI with the strategic expertise of world-class researchers. Our mission is to make high-quality customer understanding faster, more accessible, and more impactful for every business.
We're growing our go-to-market team fast. We're hiring a Customer Success Lead, a Business Development Representative and a Product Marketing Manager now, and more roles will follow. We're looking for our first Internal Recruiter to own hiring end to end. You'll build the recruiting engine and help shape the team that takes Strella to market.
Company Highlights
- Explosive Growth: We’ve more than quadrupled our annual recurring revenue over the past year, demonstrating strong demand for a fundamentally better way to conduct research.
- Enterprise Traction: Trusted by leading brands including J.Crew, Chobani, DraftKings, and to uncover customer insights and inform critical business decisions.

Strella is hiring its first Internal Recruiter to own hiring end to end and build the recruiting engine.
You will run searches from intake to signed offer across Go-to-Market and Engineering while shaping the team that takes Strella to market.

Run searches from intake to signed offer across Go-to-Market (e.g., Customer Success, Sales, Marketing) and Engineering.
Work with hiring managers to define each role, its scorecard and its interview plan before the first candidate is sourced.
Close candidates by selling a company they may not know yet, using our story, our traction and the equity opportunity.
Source most of your pipeline through outbound including LinkedIn Recruiter, Clay and sequencing tools, referrals and your own network.
Keep a warm bench of talent so we can move fast when the next role opens.
Evaluate candidates on substance, including quota attainment, deal size, sales motion and retention outcomes.
Build our hiring process from scratch including structured interviews, scorecards, take-home exercises, debriefs and offer approvals.
Own the ATS (Ashby) and reporting on time-to-fill, pass-through rates and source quality.
Make every candidate's experience fast, organized and personal, so our process becomes a selling point.
Work directly with our founders and GTM leaders on headcount planning, leveling and compensation, and advise hiring managers on market conditions.

4–8 years of recruiting experience, with at least 2 years in-house at a venture-backed B2B SaaS or AI company.
A track record of closing GTM hires such as AEs, SDRs/BDRs, CSMs, solutions engineers and marketers, ideally 15+ a year.
Experience as an early or founding recruiter at a Seed to Series C startup, or helping a team scale through hypergrowth.
Fluency with modern sourcing tools such as LinkedIn Recruiter, Clay, Gem or similar, and an ATS such as Ashby.