Founding Recruiter
- Role
- HR
- Employment
- Full-time
- Company size
- Startup
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No BS summary
Share is hiring a Founding Recruiter to lead their talent function. You will be responsible for attracting, hiring, and retaining top global talent, with a focus on deeply technical roles. This is the first internal recruiting hire, reporting directly to the founders.
Required skills
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Location: Remote, Full-time Reports to: Founders Compensation: Competitive salary + equity
ABOUT SHARE
Share is a venture-backed startup building the fastest growing internet network in the World. Acting as a bandwidth marketplace, Share aggregates underutilized telecom infrastructure (fiber, subsea cables, data centers) and provides ISPs, hyperscalers and AI companies with scalable access to bandwidth, ensuring they get to their users more efficiently; faster speeds and lower prices.
THE ROLE
This is Share's first internal recruiting hire. You will lead and own the entire talent function and work directly alongside the founders in an engineering-heavy company, ensuring the company attracts, hires and retains global top talent across both technical and non technical roles; with the majority of our hiring focused on deeply technical profiles across network, systems and software engineering.
If you have built recruiting functions from scratch, know what it takes to attract great people to a unique mission and want your work to matter at a company connecting the next billion people to the internet, we'd like to hear from you.
WHAT YOU'LL OWN
- Talent attraction. Source, engage, and close top-tier candidates across technical (network, software, systems engineering) and non-technical (operations, sales, marketing) functions. You know how to make the right person want to say yes.
- Employer brand. Own how Share is perceived in talent markets globally. Build the narrative that makes exceptional candidates lean in; on LinkedIn, through referrals, in communities, and in every candidate interaction. You understand that brand equity is a recruiting asset.
- Full-cycle ownership. Run the end-to-end hiring process: intake with founders, job descriptions, sourcing strategy, screening, interview coordination, candidate experience, and offer management.
- Pipeline infrastructure. Own the ATS, maintain clean data, build process playbooks, and create the recruiting operating system Share will scale on. We currently use Ashby.
- Founder partnership. Act as a thought partner to the founders on hiring philosophy, compensation strategy, and how we approach top-of-funnel. You will have a strong point of view and share it.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- 2-5 years of full-cycle recruiting experience, either in-house at a startup or at a boutique search firm.
- Demonstrated experience hiring deeply technical candidates (network, systems and software engineers).
- Hands-on experience running an ATS end-to-end (Ashby, Greenhouse, Lever, or equivalent).
- Strong sourcing instincts.
- Ability to build and own an employer brand narrative.
- Comfort operating with ambiguity and moving fast in a lean, founder-led environment.
NICE TO HAVE
- Experience hiring in or for talent across Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
- Background recruiting for infrastructure, telco, fintech, or deep-tech companies.
- Executive or retained search experience.
- Comfort using AI-assisted recruiting tools and automation workflows.
COMPENSATION
- Competitive salary.
- Meaningful, early-stage equity with a standard vesting schedule.
- Remote-first: work from wherever you do your best thinking.
What you'll do
- Talent attraction. Source, engage, and close top-tier candidates across technical (network, software, systems engineering) and non-technical (operations, sales, marketing) functions.
- Employer brand. Own how Share is perceived in talent markets globally. Build the narrative that makes exceptional candidates lean in; on LinkedIn, through referrals, in communities, and in every candidate interaction.
- Full-cycle ownership. Run the end-to-end hiring process: intake with founders, job descriptions, sourcing strategy, screening, interview coordination, candidate experience, and offer management.
- Pipeline infrastructure. Own the ATS, maintain clean data, build process playbooks, and create the recruiting operating system Share will scale on.
- Founder partnership. Act as a thought partner to the founders on hiring philosophy, compensation strategy, and how we approach top-of-funnel.
What they require
- 2-5 years of full-cycle recruiting experience, either in-house at a startup or at a boutique search firm.
- Demonstrated experience hiring deeply technical candidates (network, systems and software engineers).
- Hands-on experience running an ATS end-to-end (Ashby, Greenhouse, Lever, or equivalent).
- Strong sourcing instincts.
- Ability to build and own an employer brand narrative.
- Comfort operating with ambiguity and moving fast in a lean, founder-led environment.
- Experience hiring in or for talent across Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
- Background recruiting for infrastructure, telco, fintech, or deep-tech companies.
- Executive or retained search experience.
- Comfort using AI-assisted recruiting tools and automation workflows.
Benefits
- Competitive salary.
- Meaningful, early-stage equity with a standard vesting schedule.
- Remote-first: work from wherever you do your best thinking.
Share is a venture-backed internet infrastructure network building Africa's backbone. The company aggregates underutilized telecom infrastructure, fiber, subsea cables, and data centers, and provides ISPs with scalable access to bandwidth without traditional upfront costs.