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Monk is an AI-native accounts receivable (AR) platform for B2B companies, helping businesses get paid faster. The company is rebuilding the broken AR stack with AI, speed, and craftsmanship, currently managing over $1B in accounts receivable and backed by leading investors with experienced founders.
As Founding Recruiter, you will own Monk's talent engine end-to-end: finding, evaluating, closing, and onboarding exceptional people to build the company. You will partner directly with founders and hiring managers to translate company priorities into hires. This is a generalist role with immediate focus on engineering and GTM (go-to-market), expanding over time to product, operations, and leadership.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own full-cycle recruiting across the company: role intake, sourcing, outreach, assessment, coordination, and onboarding, with engineering as the immediate priority
- Build exceptional engineering pipelines by mapping target companies, technical communities, and emerging talent; run thoughtful outbound to high-agency technical candidates
- Partner with founders and hiring managers on every search: sharpen profiles, calibrate hiring bars, design processes, bring market intelligence and candidate signals to decisions
- Build Monk's recruiting operating system: interview loops, scorecards, sourcing workflows, candidate data, referrals, agency relationships, and funnel reporting
- Create candidate experience reflecting Monk's values: tell a compelling story, run high-signal processes, ensure every candidate respects the company
- Automate your role using AI, automation, and tooling to create leverage and help Monk hire faster
Monk's culture emphasizes ownership and craft (shipping daily, obsessing over details), speed and urgency (acting now, not tomorrow), and radical clarity (reasoning from shared truth). The company is early-stage with enormous upside, offering real ownership, fast learning cycles, and the opportunity to build at the frontier of applied AI.
Requirements:
- 4+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including technical hiring for high-growth startups or similarly demanding environments
- Demonstrable track record of sourcing exceptional engineers; understand how strong builders evaluate companies and can earn their attention
- Experience building or materially improving recruiting processes, systems, and data; comfortable owning an ATS and using funnel data to identify bottlenecks
- Exceptional judgment to distinguish signal from polish, hold a high bar, and give founders and hiring managers clear, direct advice
- AI-native: use AI and automation daily to research, source, personalize, and operate at higher leverage
- Owner mentality: don't wait for perfect requirements or file tickets; find constraints, fix them, and prevent recurrence
- Excited to build in-person in Flatiron, NYC
Bonus qualifications:
- Founding or early recruiting hire experience at an exceptional startup
- Experience recruiting engineers for developer tools, AI, fintech, infrastructure, or other technical products
- Built talent brand, community, or recruiting-event motion that helped a company win hard-to-reach candidates
- Experience with Ashby ATS
