GTM & Ops Recruiter
About the role
Recruiting role at Blacksmith responsible for end-to-end hiring for GTM and operations, building outbound sourcing, and partnering with founders to maintain a high talent bar in a fast-growing startup environment.
Responsibilities
- Own full-cycle hiring for every GTM and Ops role at Blacksmith - Account Executives, Solutions Engineers, Marketing, Finance, and the business-side hires that keep the company running
- Build outbound sourcing from scratch. Pipeline from narrow, well-researched headhunting, our own customers, and your network
- Partner directly with the founders to define what 'exceptional' looks like for each role and ensure a rigorous hiring process as we scale
- Own the hiring process with urgency - balance exceptional quality with speed; velocity is key
- Be the expert advisor in the business - monitor market trends, talent opportunities/challenges, and tradeoffs; act as a consultant to the business
- Build out our network and brand; engage with passive talent and develop longer-term recruitment sequences
Qualifications
- 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting across GTM & Ops roles within fast paced startup environments
- Proven track record of hiring at an exceptional talent bar; hires have gone on to be highly successful
- Urgency and ability to operate in a hypergrowth environment
- Experience with teams that build highly technical products; familiarity with infrastructure or developer-tools products preferred
- Good process instinct: balance lean processes with rigorous standards
- High agency and ability to thrive in ambiguity
- Real sourcing craft: ability to reach top-tier talent (p99)
Benefits
- Medical, Vision, and Dental insurance
- Competitive base + equity
- 401K match
- Unlimited PTO
- Annual offsite
- Early-exercise stock options
- 12 weeks fully paid parental leave (US)

About Blacksmith
The fastest way to run your GitHub Actions
Blacksmith helps companies run their continuous integration (CI) up to twice as fast, at half the cost. We do this by running their CI on high performance gaming CPUs. - Engineering productivity is often marred by slow CI that grows quadratically with the size of the engineering organization. - On top of this, companies pay high markups to run CI on the hyperscalers. - Consequently, companies have to run their CI on spot instances to keep costs in check. Since spot instances can get pre-empted at any point, running CI reliably on them requires [significant engineering investment](https://www.rippling.com/blog/how-rippling-used-spot-instances-to-save-and-scale-ci-cd). Blacksmith offers CI compute that is more performant, cheaper, and reliable. With Blacksmith, companies do not have to think about CI as they scale. We are starting with GitHub Actions - today's most popular and fastest-growing CI system. With a one-line change, companies can run their CI up to twice as fast on our high-performance hardware. In addition to this, Blacksmith provides colocated warm caches along with optimizations for common CI workloads (like building and pushing Docker images). Aayush, JP and Aditya have gained deep systems and product knowledge from their time at Cockroach Labs and Faire respectively. Both these companies, with several hundred engineers, were spending in the order of millions of dollars on their CI. Yet they were riddled with slow CI and actively seeking out cheaper and faster alternatives. Blacksmith offers exactly this alternative, at a time where being lean is table-stakes for most companies.
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