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Founding Recruiter

dili
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Hybrid (New York, NY)$150k - $195kFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Founding Recruiter role at Dili, a YC-funded startup focused on automating compliance for construction and energy sectors. First dedicated recruiting hire responsible for building and scaling recruiting across all functions, partnering with founders and leadership, and shaping the recruiting function for rapid growth.

Responsibilities

  • Own full-cycle recruiting across all functions: intake, sourcing, screening, interview coordination, closing, and offer negotiation.
  • Partner with the founders and leadership to build a quarterly hiring plan tied to company goals and headcount budget.
  • Run intake meetings with hiring managers to define each role clearly, including scorecards, must-haves, and interview loops.
  • Source senior and hard-to-find talent directly, including engineers, compliance experts with prevailing wage and labor-law backgrounds, and go-to-market leaders.
  • Select, implement, and own our recruiting stack, including the ATS, sourcing tools, scheduling, and offer workflows.
  • Establish core best practices: structured interviews, calibrated scorecards, interviewer training, debrief standards, and consistent candidate communication.
  • Build reporting on pipeline health, time-to-hire, conversion rates, offer acceptance, and source quality, and use it to improve how we hire.
  • Define compensation bands and leveling with the founders, and manage offers within them.
  • Create a candidate experience that reflects how we work: fast, direct, and respectful of people's time.
  • Build Dili's employer brand and talent pipelines through referrals, communities, events, and outreach.
  • Manage relationships with agencies and contract recruiters when we need extra capacity.
  • As hiring volume grows, hire, onboard, and manage additional recruiters and coordinators.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including meaningful time in-house at a high-growth startup.
  • A track record of hiring across multiple functions, ideally both technical (engineering, product) and non-technical (sales, operations, G&A) roles.
  • Experience building recruiting from scratch or near-scratch: selecting and implementing an ATS, designing interview processes, and setting up reporting.
  • Strong direct-sourcing skills and comfort recruiting senior, passive candidates.
  • Experience running structured interview processes and coaching hiring managers to use them well.
  • Comfort with compensation conversations, offer construction, and closing, including explaining startup equity.
  • A data-driven approach: you track your funnel and use it to make decisions.
  • Strong judgment, high integrity, and the ability to keep confidential information confidential.
  • Able to manage many searches at once without dropping details.
  • Clear, concise written and verbal communication.

Skills

Required:Full-cycle recruitingSourcing and direct candidate outreachInterview design and structured processesATS and recruiting stack ownership
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About dili

Automating PWA Compliance and Diligence

Dili (YC S23) is building the most reliable AI automation for compliance in real-world industries. Across energy, infrastructure, datacenters, advanced manufacturing, and construction, Dili has run prevailing wage, apprenticeship, & other labor compliance to help customers secure over $1 billion in federal funding. Dili is building the AI system of record to help physical industries track compliance, analyze labor and spend, run payroll, and more.

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