Special Projects Recruiter, Workstream
High Volume Programs
$100-120k
+ Discretionary bonus + Equity package
5 days a week in office (Menlo Park, CA)
HR and payroll solutions built specifically for restaurants
Be an early applicant
HR and payroll solutions built specifically for restaurants
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$100-120k
+ Discretionary bonus + Equity package
5 days a week in office (Menlo Park, CA)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help businesses hire faster and smarter, so they can focus on supporting their team and serving their customers.
Role
Who you are
- 3–7+ years of recruiting experience, with strong preference for high-volume, hourly, contractor, or operational recruiting
- Proven ability to scale recruiting quickly in fast-paced or ambiguous environments
- Experience sourcing through job boards, marketplaces, and creative non-traditional recruiting channels
- Strong operational rigor and comfort managing large candidate funnels simultaneously
- Ability to move quickly, solve problems in real time, and execute with urgency
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Strong organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail
- Comfort working cross-functionally across recruiting, operations, and project teams
- Experience building or improving recruiting processes, workflows, or systems
- High ownership mindset with pride in hitting aggressive hiring goals
Desirable
- Experience in staffing, marketplace, BPO, or large-scale contractor recruiting
- Experience recruiting for content creation, media operations, or contributor programs
- Familiarity with hourly workforce recruiting and high-volume sourcing channels
- Experience supporting international hiring or globally distributed contractor programs
- Experience with recruiting operations, ATS optimization, or recruiting analytics
- Startup or special projects recruiting experience
What the job involves
- Own end-to-end recruiting for high-volume Video Contributor contractor hiring, with a primary focus on Menlo Park in-office hiring
- Build and optimize scalable sourcing strategies across Workstream, Indeed, and other job platforms to rapidly increase applicant flow
- Develop creative sourcing channels for hourly workers and contractor talent to meet aggressive hiring targets
- Manage large candidate pipelines from sourcing through screening, scheduling, offer, and onboarding coordination
- Partner closely with internal project leads, recruiters, and cross-functional stakeholders to align hiring with production goals
- Identify funnel bottlenecks and improve conversion rates across job postings, candidate communications, and process design
- Coordinate hiring logistics across multiple stakeholders, including onsite teams, contractor managers, and international hiring support when needed
- Track recruiting metrics, hiring velocity, and sourcing channel performance to continuously improve outcomes
- Help design and operationalize recruiting systems that can scale from current volume to significantly larger hiring needs
- Support special hiring initiatives, rapid hiring surges, and recruiting experimentation as project needs evolve
Our take
Recruiting new staff can be a slow andf frustrating process for HR teams, especially in industries that rely on hourly workers. Roles often need filling quickly, turnover can be high, and managers don't always have time to sit at a desk sorting through applications and emails. So, chasing candidates, scheduling interviews, and keeping people engaged can take hours each week, often delaying businesses , leaving them short-staffed when they need people most.
Workstream is a HR and hiring platform built specifically for hourly workers, with text messaging at the centre of how it works. Instead of forcing candidates to apply through long online forms or emails they may never check, Workstream allows people to apply, communicate, schedule interviews, and even complete parts of onboarding directly through their phone. And for employers, the platform automates most of the hiring process, so managers can source, screen, hire, and onboard staff with ease.
Whilst the company operates in a competitive HR software market, its carved out a strong position by focusing on deskless and hourly workers, a group often overlooked by traditional HR tools. Its growing list of customers also span quick-service restaurants, retail, logistics, and other hourly-heavy industries, and the company has attracted significant investor backing as a result. Competition may remain strong but Workstream's clear focus, steady expansion, and continued product adoption give it a strong foothold in the market.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2022
$60m
SERIES B
Aug 2021
$48m
SERIES B
Total funding: $118m
Company benefits
- Health and wellness: We care about the physical and mental health of each of our team members. We offer every employee comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans, and access to a generous number of fully-paid counseling sessions with licensed therapists every year.
- Competitive compensation (and equity): As a company, we have ambitious goals with a high-potential financial upside—and we share that with every employee through competitive market compensation and generous stock.
- Flexible time off: We believe team members do their best work when their life feels balanced. We promote work-life harmony through flexible PTO and paid parental leave.
- Professional development: We believe in becoming 1% better each day. That’s why we offer a quarterly learning reimbursement that can be used toward continuing education, books, subscriptions and more.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Desmond Lim
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Workstream in 2017, Desmond was a Product Manager at MIT Media Lab and WeChat.
Max Wang
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously, Max co-founded VC.CN where he served as the CTO for 5 years.
Lei Xu
(Co-Founder & CSO)Lei previously co-founded Emote where he served as the CTO for 2 years. Prior to that, he spent 3 years at Google in Revenue Acceleration and Software Engineering roles.
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