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Lead Recruiter

WorkstreamSan Francisco, California, United StatesOnsite

Workstream is a mission-driven company that believes in building premium, modern software solutions for hourly businesses. There are 2.7 billion hourly workers, who make up 80% of the global workforce, but they've been heavily underserved by technology and deserve better. We help local businesses around you hire, manage, and pay qualified workers.
Our customers include leading brands from multiple sectors, including Burger King, Carl's Jr./Hardee's, IHOP, KFC, and Culvers. At series B, we are quickly expanding our product portfolio. We are backed by legendary VCs and industry experts like Founders Fund, BOND, and Coatue.As a Lead Recruiter at Workstream, you will play a critical role in shaping the teams that drive our mission forward. This is a unique opportunity to report directly to and collaborate closely with our founder and CEO, gaining unparalleled exposure and impact in a dynamic, high-growth environment.

This is an in-office role, requiring five days a week of on-site collaboration in Menlo Park and San Francisco, CA.

Day in the Life: 


  • Sourcing Excellence: Strategically source and attract top-tier SaaS talent across various platforms, building strong pipelines for both active and passive candidates.
  • Full-Cycle Recruiting: Manage the end-to-end recruitment process, from crafting job descriptions and screening candidates to facilitating interviews and closing offers.
  • Stakeholder Partnership: Collaborate closely with hiring managers and leaders across departments to understand hiring needs, develop recruitment strategies, and ensure alignment with company goals.
  • Candidate Experience: Drive a world-class candidate experience by ensuring clear communication, timely follow-ups, and a seamless hiring process.
  • Analytics and Reporting: Track and analyze recruitment metrics to continuously optimize hiring strategies and demonstrate progress to stakeholders.

Who You Are:

  • Experienced Recruiter: You bring 3-5 years of full-cycle recruiting experience, preferably in a SaaS or high-growth start-up environment.
  • Master Sourcer: You have a demonstrated ability to find and engage exceptional talent through creative and effective sourcing methods.
  • Stakeholder Partner: Your communication and collaboration skills make you a trusted partner to hiring managers and executives, able to balance their needs with recruiting best practices.
  • Mission-Driven: You are passionate about matching great people with meaningful opportunities, and you thrive in a mission-oriented workplace.
  • Data-Savvy: You’re skilled at using recruiting data to drive decisions and optimize strategies.
  • Highly Adaptable: You excel in a fast-paced environment, juggling multiple priorities while maintaining high standards of quality and timeliness.
  • Team Player: You’re not just a recruiter—you’re a cultural ambassador who enhances the Workstream team with your energy, reliability, and enthusiasm.

What We Offer:


  • A mission-driven and value-based company dedicated to empower deskless workers and local businesses
  • An early employee opportunity at a Series B hyper-growth startup; work with the founding team and industry veterans to accelerate your career
  • Competitive salary and equity
  • Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision. We pay 95% of your premiums for our employees and 75% for dependents.
  • In office amenities and stocked kitchen
  • 401K Plan
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits
  • Learning/development stipend
  • Unlimited PTO

Salary Range: In compliance with the California Pay Transparency Law, the salary range for this role is between $110,000 - $140,000 in San Francisco. This range is not inclusive of our discretionary bonus or equity package. When determining a candidate’s compensation, we consider a number of factors including skillset, experience, job scope, and current market data.

Additional Information 


Workstream provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. We are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals.

Life at Workstream

Workstream (www.workstream.us) is an automated hiring platform for companies employing hourly workers ? retail, restaurants, cafes, logistic companies, hospitality firms, and on-demand startups. We are more than a B2B applicant tracking software for companies. We cut in half the time that companies take to hire, on-board and train hourly workers via automation, mobile workflows and machine learning. Workstream is a simpler and smarter way to hire a fast-growing modern workforce. We are changing the way that companies hire today by solving the inefficiencies of a service economy that is characterized by unpredictable labor. We are a team from Harvard, MIT, Google, Y Combinator and WeChat, and backed by some of the top angel investors and venture capitalists. Based out of San Francisco Bay Area, we are rapidly growing and grew up in this industry ourselves and feel passionate about transforming this industry. The future of work is changing. People are switching jobs more frequently, more people are becoming independent contractors and many may work for several companies at once. Workstream will be the platform that will power the way the way this modern workforce are hired, screened, and trained.
Thrive Here & What We Value- Missiondriven and value-based company dedicated to empowering deskless workers and local businesses.- Early employee opportunity at a Series B hypergrowth startup with founding team and industry veterans.- Competitive salary and equity.- Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, vision.- Unlimited PTO.- Hybrid Office/WFH schedule.- Equal employment opportunities with antidiscrimination policy.- Remote/WFH schedule with direct bank payments.- Learning/development stipend.- Career fast track, internal mobility, Grow With Us program for performers.- Positive employee experiences and passionate work environment.
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