As our Recruiter & Employee Experience Lead, you will own talent acquisition across Sales, Technical/Engineering/Product, and G&A functions — and you’ll simultaneously own the full post-hire employee experience lifecycle: onboarding, benefits, payroll, HR systems. You are the hands-on builder of our people operations infrastructure.

This is a doer-lead role: you’ll roll up your sleeves and execute as much as you strategise. You’ll build recruiting frameworks, sourcing pipelines, ATS/HRIS workflows — all in service of scaling Farsight’s team sustainably and with high quality.

As we go from ~30 people today and aim to more than double headcount next year, we’re building the people-function that supports rapid growth while preserving startup speed, high impact, and strong culture.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with hiring managers (Sales, Engineering/Product, G&A) to define hiring needs, role profiles, headcount plans, and timelines.

• Develop and execute sourcing strategies: direct sourcing, strategic networks, employee referrals, outreach campaigns.
  

• Lead full-cycle recruiting: sourcing, screening, interview coordination, offer negotiation and closing.
  

• Represent our employer brand to high-caliber candidates — pitching our mission, culture, and growth story.
  

• Build and maintain proactive pipelining for critical roles in advance of growth needs.
  

• Own and continuously improve the post-hire employee experience: onboarding process, first-90-days check-ins, HRIS/ATS configurations, benefits administration, payroll coordination.
  

• Select, implement, and manage HR/People systems (ATS, onboarding platforms, HRIS, payroll/benefits).
  

• Track recruiting metrics (time-to-fill, funnel conversion, source effectiveness) and use data to optimize recruiting and processes.
  

• Ensure compliance with employment laws and best practices (US + New York state/local). Partner with external counsel when necessary.
  

• Thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment — wear multiple hats, pivot quickly, and iterate rapidly.
  

Who You Are

• 6 – 10 years of recruiting experience, ideally in a fast-growth startup or scale-up environment.
  

• Comfortable owning both recruiting and employee experience/HR operations.
  

• Experience recruiting across functions: Sales, Engineering/Technical, G&A.
  

• A hands-on builder: you’re capable of designing processes from scratch and executing them yourself.
  

• Familiarity with HR systems: ATS, HRIS, onboarding tools, benefits/payroll workflows.
  

• Strong partner & communicator: you work well with hiring managers, senior leadership, finance/ops, external vendors.
  

• Metrics-driven: you track, analyse and improve recruiting workflows and outcomes.
  

• Startup mentality: comfortable with ambiguity, rapid growth, change, and building the infrastructure beneath growth.
  

• Location preference: based in New York City; able to work onsite.
  

Nice-to-Have

• Previous experience at high growth startups.
  

• Recruiting technical roles (software engineering, data science, product) with an understanding of technical hiring metrics.
  

• Experience designing and improving onboarding, engagement, retention strategies in a scaling environment.
  

• Familiarity with equity/stock option compensation norms in startups.
  

What We Offer

• A unique opportunity to build the recruiting + people operations function at a pivotal growth stage — high impact, high visibility.
  

• A collaborative, fast-moving startup culture in NYC — working directly with founders and senior leadership.
  

• Competitive salary + equity package (to be discussed).
  

• Health, dental, vision benefits.
  

• Flexible time off and remote/hybrid flexibility aligned with team norms.
  

• Professional growth: you’ll operate across recruiting, HR operations, and systems — uniquely broad scope.