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Founding Recruiter

Short Story· Recruiting & HR
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San FranciscoFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Founding Recruiter role at Short Story, a data-driven ecommerce startup focused on petite women, reporting to the CEO and onsite in SF. Build and lead all recruiting efforts to shape the founding team across Operations, Styling, Product, Engineering, Marketing, Client Experience, and more.

Responsibilities

  • Full Cycle Recruiting: Own the full-cycle recruiting across roles
  • Talent Strategy: Work with founders and hiring managers to set hiring goals, scope new roles and develop talent roadmaps
  • Sourcing: Build and run outbound sourcing strategies to reach top talent
  • Manage Talent Infrastructure: Including Ashby, LinkedIn Recruiter, and hiring data
  • Growth Strategy: Inform founders on team composition and organizational scaling
  • Talent Operations: Own candidate coordination, recruiting tools, and continuously improve our hiring processes and structures
  • Brand Building: Build out Short Story's brand and values with authenticity, empathy, and clarity in every candidate interaction

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in recruiting, with at least 3 years in a startup or high-growth environment
  • You can operate as team of one—rolling up your sleeves to source, coordinate, and close. You'll work closely with the CEO and HR Manager, but you'll be the one figuring out what needs to be done and doing it.
  • You think like a founder: high judgment, bias for action, and ownership mentality
  • You write outbound messages that actually get responses and know how to search for the right people in non-obvious places
  • You're smart with tools - Ashby, Linkedin, and using AI to automate the repetitive parts

Skills

Required:RecruitingSourcing

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity compensation
  • Excellent benefits and versatile health, dental, and vision coverage plans
  • Paid parental leave
  • Unlimited PTO
Last updated Jul 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Short Story

Modern ecommerce for petite women

Short Story is a style discovery platform to help petite women find clothes that fit. The average American woman is 5'4" and petite, yet this remains an enormously underserved segment. We’re a team of curators passionate about finding style, quality, and fit for petite women. Our mission is to remove the “ugh” from the shopping equation and support petite women in telling their stories, stylishly and confidently.

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