Founding Recruiter

About NumeralHQ

Numeral is building the automation backbone for internet commerce — starting with the painful world of sales tax compliance. We handle everything from registration to remittance, delivering a white-glove service so e-commerce businesses can stay laser-focused on what they do best: growing their products, customers, and teams.

We’re one of the fastest-growing companies from Y Combinator’s W23 batch, backed by top-tier investors including Benchmark Capital. Our team has deep roots from the early days at Stripe, Airbnb, Notion, and other breakout companies — and now we’re bringing that same level of craft, speed, and ambition to a space that’s long overdue for reinvention.

Numeral is small but mighty. Growth is already borderline unmanageable — which means every hire we make now will directly shape the trajectory of the company. If you’re excited about joining as an early team member and want the kind of ownership that defines careers, we want to meet you.

Mission

Running an online business today means wearing a thousand hats — most of them not the reason founders started their company. Our mission is to eliminate the administrative and accounting burdens that distract businesses from doing what they love.

We’ve already helped hundreds of merchants avoid the headache of building giant finance teams just to manage tax compliance. Tomorrow, we’re scaling that impact even further: building the automation layer that lets internet businesses stay nimble, compliant, and future-proof.

About the role:

• As our Founding Recruiter, you’ll help in laying the foundation for recruiting at Numeral. You’ll perform full-cycle recruiting from coordination, sourcing, and hiring across engineering, product, go-to-market, and operations teams — while building the recruiting infrastructure that will lay the groundwork to scale us from 50 to 150 employees and beyond in the next few years.

• You will take a consultative mindset and partner with our Executive Team to attract and identify top talent to bring into the organization. You are focused on quality over quantity as you understand the value of time in a fast-paced, early stage startup environment. You will also be responsible for developing and executing on recruiting strategies to ensure we hire to headcount plans in a timely manner.

• You’ll work closely with the Head of Talent to shape how recruiting operates, owns, and delivers at Numeral including but is not limited to employer branding, improvements, systems, candidate experience, interviewing training, etc.

Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end hiring across all functions: Engineering, Product, Sales, Ops, and more.

• Partner with execs and hiring managers to run role kickoffs, define bar-raising processes, and close top-tier candidates.

• Launch and scale recruiting operations: ATS (Ashby), scheduling, dashboards, interviewer calibration, agency coordination.

• Manage top-of-funnel sourcing efforts and candidate outreach strategy.

• Create best-in-class candidate experience: clear communication, tight feedback loops, and thoughtful touch points.

• Track key funnel metrics and recruiting KPIs; build reports to inform hiring decisions.

• Help define and scale employer branding, referral campaigns, and internal recruiting enablement.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of recruiting experience, ideally with 3+ in early-stage startup environments.

• Proven ability to manage multiple reqs across technical and non-technical functions.

• Proficient at sourcing top tier candidates using creative sourcing techniques

• Experience building and scaling recruiting processes, systems, and interview loops from scratch.

• Comfort working directly with C-level execs and being the point person for hiring strategy.

• Excellent communicator, writer, and operator — clear, concise, and action-oriented.

Bonus Points For:

• Experience with Ashby, Rippling, Pave, or similar modern HR tech stack.

• Passion for building team culture, DEI initiatives, and employer brand from 0→1.

Why Join Us?

• Be a core builder in an ambitious, globally minded startup.

• Learn hands-on how to scale international compliance systems.

• Work across functions and with leadership early in your career.

• Make a visible impact immediately through enablement and operational design.

• Enjoy a flexible, remote-first culture with strong mentorship and ownership opportunities.