← All roles

GTM & Ops Recruiter

Blacksmith
Apply on company site
Hybrid (SF/NYC)$185k - $225kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Recruiting & HR role focused on GTM and Operations at Blacksmith, a YC-funded startup building fast CI infrastructure for GitHub Actions. The role is full-time and reports to founder-level leadership, with a strong emphasis on owning the full-cycle recruitment process, talent strategy, and employer branding in a hypergrowth 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. We have a limited employer brand, so the pipeline comes 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: we set an extremely high bar for talent and need a hiring process that ensures we meet this bar as we scale
  • Own the hiring process with urgency - you’ll balance exceptional quality with speed. Velocity is key to how we hire
  • Be the expert advisor in the business - market trends, talent opportunities/challenges, tradeoffs. You should be able to operate as a consultant to the business
  • Build out our network and brand. Look for ways to engage with passive talent and build out opportunities to convert candidates through longer term, strategic sequences

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting across GTM & Ops roles within fast paced startup environments
  • A proven track record of hiring at an exceptional talent bar. The hires you’ve made have gone on to be highly successful in their roles
  • Urgency - you have to be comfortable and able to operate with urgency in a truly hypergrowth environment
  • You’ve worked with teams that have built highly technical products, and understand the nuances to selling a role in this environment to prospective candidates. Ideally this will have been a similar infrastructure or developer-tools product
  • Good process instinct - you know how to not overburden hiring with unnecessary processes, whilst still maintaining the correct standard of rigour
  • High agency and thrive in ambiguity
  • Real sourcing craft: you know how to reach the p99 talent

Skills

Required:Full-cycle recruitingTalent strategy & market mappingOutbound sourcingStakeholder management

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)
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
Blacksmith logo

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.

Company profileWebsite

More open roles at Blacksmith