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Founding Recruiter

dili· Recruiting & HR
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Hybrid (New York City, NY)Full-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Founding Recruiter at Dili, a YC-backed startup, responsible for owning and building the company’s recruitment function across all departments as the first dedicated recruiter.

Responsibilities

  • Own full-cycle recruiting across all functions: intake, sourcing, screening, interview coordination, closing, and offer negotiation.
  • Partner with founders and leadership to build a quarterly hiring plan tied to company goals and headcount budget.
  • Run intake meetings with hiring managers to define roles, including scorecards, must-haves, and interview loops.
  • Source senior and hard-to-find talent directly (engineers, compliance experts, GTM leaders).
  • Select, implement, and own recruiting stack (ATS, sourcing tools, scheduling, offers).
  • Establish core best practices: structured interviews, calibrated scorecards, interviewer training, debrief standards, candidate communication.
  • Build reporting on pipeline health, time-to-hire, conversion rates, offer acceptance, and source quality.
  • Define compensation bands and leveling with founders, manage offers within them.
  • Create a candidate experience that reflects fast, direct, and respectful processes.
  • Build employer brand and talent pipelines via referrals, communities, events, and outreach.
  • Manage relationships with agencies and contract recruiters for capacity needs.
  • As 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.
  • Track record of hiring across multiple functions (technical and non-technical).
  • Experience building recruiting from scratch or near-scratch: ATS, interview processes, reporting.
  • Strong direct-sourcing skills and comfort recruiting senior, passive candidates.
  • Experience running structured interview processes and coaching hiring managers.
  • Comfort with compensation conversations, offer construction, and startup equity explanations.
  • Data-driven funnel tracking and decision-making.
  • Strong judgment, integrity, and confidentiality.
  • Ability to manage many searches with attention to detail.
  • Clear, concise written and verbal communication.

Skills

Required:Full-cycle recruitingTalent sourcingATS & recruiting stack managementStructured interviewsCompensation & equity discussions
Nice to have:People leadership (future)

Benefits

  • Full-time salary + equity (as indicated in role description)
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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