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GTM & Ops Recruiter

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

About the role

Recruiting & HR role focused on end-to-end hiring for GTM and Ops at Blacksmith, a YC-funded startup delivering fast GitHub Actions infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Own full-cycle hiring for every GTM and Ops role at Blacksmith - Account Executives, Solutions Engineers, Marketing, Finance, and business-side hires
  • Build outbound sourcing from scratch; leverage narrow headhunting, customer networks, and personal network
  • Partner directly with the founders to define performance standards for each role and maintain a high hiring bar
  • Own the hiring process with urgency and balance quality with speed
  • Be the expert advisor on market trends, talent opportunities/challenges, and tradeoffs; act as a consultant to the business
  • Build out network and employer brand; engage passive talent and develop long-term candidate engagement strategies

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 with successful hires
  • Ability to operate with urgency in a hypergrowth environment
  • Experience recruiting for technically-oriented product environments (infrastructure or developer-tools)
  • Good process instinct to avoid unnecessary processes while maintaining rigour
  • High agency and comfort in ambiguity
  • Strong sourcing craft to reach top talent (p99)

Skills

Required:Full-cycle recruitingSourcing & headhuntingStakeholder 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.
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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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