Hyperbound is hiring: Principal Recruiter in San Francisco

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Base pay range

$120,000.00/yr - $170,000.00/yr

At Hyperbound (YC S23), we’re building the Sales Performance OS, a new category of sales-tech that helps enterprise sales teams practice, measure, and scale top‑performer behaviors. In the last year we raised a $15M Series A, 5xd ARR, and over doubled our headcount. In 2026 we plan on doubling headcount again to support our rapid growth.

About The Role

This is a founding role, with massive impact on the trajectory of the company. We’ll rely on you to build a high‑quality, repeatable talent pipeline, increase employer brand visibility, and create predictability for hiring managers through data‑driven systems.

Responsibilities

• Build and execute strategic sourcing campaigns to uncover top‑tier, often passive, candidates, using creative outreach, referrals, talent mapping, and events
• Contribute to our employer brand, crafting messaging that attracts world‑class builders
• Conduct phone screens, coordinate interviews, and guide candidates through each stage with clarity and speed
• Own applicant tracking system
• Collaborate with founders to craft compensation offers
• Coordinate the use of talent agencies

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years of full lifecycle recruiting experience working on technical roles.
• Has a proven track record of sourcing and hiring passive candidates from top companies without fully relying on inbound applicants or referrals to build our talent pipeline.
• Highly autonomous and self‑starting, with a founder mindset and bias toward action.
• Experience building out, tracking, and communicating recruiting metrics (pipeline health, funnel conversion, time‑to‑hire, etc.) to founders and department leaders.
• Great business acumen and technical intuition. You don’t need to write code, but you should be able to quickly understand what makes someone excellent at building scalable systems.
• Experience as an in‑house recruiter at a fast pace series A‑C company and recruiting non‑technical roles are nice to haves.

Why Hyperbound?

• We are the leader of a category that we invented.
• Ownership over a critical function from day 1.
• Work closely with founders and leadership. You will have high visibility and high impact.
• A fast, ambitious, highly talented team that values creativity, velocity, and results.
• We have great customer traction and raised a $15M Series A. Now we need the talent to take us to the next level.
• This is not a remote role! 5x/week at our SF office.

Seniority level: Mid‑Senior. Employment type: Full‑time. Job function: Human Resources. Industries: Software Development.