Technical Recruiter, Ashby
CA$130-160k
+ Offers Equity
All-in-one recruiting software
Job no longer available
All-in-one recruiting software
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
CA$130-160k
+ Offers Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To redefine the applicant tracking system (ATS) category, providing talent teams with analytics, workflows and automation.
Role
Who you are
- Proven track record as an expert “Engineering” Recruiter in a product-led company
- Experience working on Software Engineering hiring, ideally from within a SaaS company, is critical
- Data-driven mindset, able to optimize your workflows, balancing diversity, quality and volume
- Demonstrated experience in creating innovative sourcing strategies that differentiate the talent pipelines from the inbound attraction and referrals that we have traditionally used
- If you need someone else to do any of the following, then this role is probably not for you:
- Boolean search and talent mapping activities
- Requisition qualification with senior leaders
- High volumes of outreach and screening calls
- Prioritization of your workload
- You want lots of candidate contact after initial stages. We're a Hiring Manager led process so they handle deeper relationship building with candidates
What the job involves
- Here's some resume feedback I've created from past Recruiter hiring processes that I've given to applicants we have screened out, based on reviewing hundreds of Recruiter/Sourcer resumes. I hope you find this useful in tailoring your application!
- 1. Resumes showed minimal experience as a Full Lifecycle Recruiter, recruiting for Software Engineering roles. We will only hire someone with deep SWE hiring experience
- 2. Role descriptions on resumes focusing on projects or leadership rather than delivery of hires for Engineering roles. Projects and leadership is great, but I needed to see the evidence of you doing the Recruiting work
- 3. Resumes showed no or minimal experience of hiring in a Product led Engineering environment. As per the job description we were looking for SaaS experience ideally
- 4. Resumes didn't articulate the impact that the applicant had in past roles. The JD stated "Data-driven mindset, able to optimize your workflows" and data can show this impact
- 5. Answers to the application questions. Each question had context provided or real meaning for us, beyond what we would see in your resume
- 6. Resumes had a general lack of specifics. "Recruited a variety of roles" doesn't tell the reader that you've handled Software Engineering recruiting. Likewise, a company name alone doesn't help the reader know it's Product led organization. On that last point, a little blurb about the company is really helpful for anyone reading the resume and helps them avoid mistakes by thinking that a company isn't from "X" sector
- Ashby is seeking a Technical Recruiter with a proven track record of discovering and hiring amazing Engineering talent. In this role, you will own the end-to-end development and execution of recruitment strategies to find exceptional talent to fill critical Software Engineer, Product Management, Design, Engineering Leadership and IT roles
- Success in this role over the next six months will involve attracting, evaluating and hiring high-quality candidates to meet our company's hiring needs for Engineering positions across the business. It will also require building and collating phenomenal talent pools to create a strong infrastructure for future growth
- Note: I'm looking to fill 2 roles. I'd love to discuss which one you're more interested in as we go through the interview process:
- 1 recruiter to focus on Product Engineering hiring. This role will be about building the machine that allows us to hire world-class engineers at scale, going deep into hiring strategy, and developing trusted, long-term partnerships with engineering leaders
- 1 recruiter to focus on all other technical hiring (Design Engineering, Product Management, Design, IT, QA, SRE, Data). This role is ideal for a relationship builder who can partner with a wide range of stakeholders, manage multiple searches at once, and create a repeatable yet flexible process that works across the organization
- You will achieve this by:
- Attracting, evaluating and hiring top talent for all Technical positions
- Developing processes that focus on the very highest quality of hire as we scale
- Discovering and quantifying new talent pools and sourcing channels
- Engaging with our co-founders, departmental leaders and hiring managers to expertly qualify requirements
- Focusing on quality and alignment at the optimal volume to meet goals
- As you are probably ascertaining from the above - we are looking for a person that gains energy from both strategizing on creative ways to accelerate our hiring as well as getting their hands dirty finding and evaluating candidates
Application process
- Deadline to Apply 21 August 2025 at 01:00 BST
- At Ashby, our team and interview process want to help you show your best self. We’ll dive into past projects and simulate working together via talking through past projects and conducting a short but realistic assignment. Our interview process is 4 rounds with some casual Zoom (or in-person) coffee in between to get to know each other:
- 30-minute introduction call to discuss Ashby and your past work with Josh, so expect a traditional recruiting screen
- A take-home assignment that will ask you to create a hiring strategy for a role as well as an example of a tailored outreach to a specific candidate we will provide you
- 60-minute deeper dive into your Recruiting experience that will follow on from your assignment submission with Abhik, VP Engineering + Co-Founder
- A virtual onsite loop: 2.5 hours:
- (60 mins) Meeting with me (Jim) to share more about the current state of recruiting at Ashby
- (30 mins) A sourcing-focused interview with Liz
- (30 mins) Meeting with Josh to dive deeper into stakeholder management
- (30 mins) Meeting with one of our engineering leaders
Our take
Reportedly, 50% of employers don’t use applicant tracking systems, largely because of blockers with implementation or insufficient buy-in from top management. Ashby's co-founder and CEO, Benji Encz, experienced first-hand how existing solutions failed to support hyper-growth hiring needs whilst working at PlanGrid, which is in part what led to the creation of the company.
Ashby is looking to redefine the ATS category - providing talent teams with analytics, workflows and automation - and intends to replace solutions from well-established vendors like Greenhouse and Lever with algorithms. The company's AI can schedule interviews and infer demographic data, which clients use for aggregate analyses of DEI hiring metrics.
The market for recruitment software could potentially reach $3.5 billion by 2030. Unsurprisingly, there is now a growing number of startups emerging to compete for a slice of it. Despite the crowded market and having only emerged from stealth in 2022, Ashby has already secured over 500 clients (including high-profile customers like Notion and Figma). The company has also attracted impressive funding, which will be used to expand its product offering beyond what is typically expected from an ATS and grow its customer success and community initiatives.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
32% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2025
$50m
SERIES D
Jun 2024
$30m
SERIES C
Total funding: $114.7m
Company benefits
- Unlimited PTO with four weeks recommended per year
- 10-year exercise window for stock options - you shouldn’t feel pressure to purchase stock options if you leave Ashby, do it when you feel financially comfortable
- Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget
- $100/month education budget with more expensive items (like conferences) covered with manager approval
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Benjamin Encz
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously the Director of Engineering and Part-Time Recruitment Operations at PlanGrid. They also worked as a Software Engineer at Make School and was a Lecturer at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW).
Abhik Pramanik
(Co-Founder & VP of Engineering)VP of Engineer at Ashby. Previously a Senior Product Manager at Lob and a Senior Product Manager at PlanGrid.
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