[Hiring] Technical Recruiter @gaiia

Role Description

Following our $40M Series B, we’re scaling our technical teams, and we’re hiring our first dedicated recruiter to lead it. As our first Technical Recruiter, you’ll report directly to our CEO and own technical hiring end to end: sourcing, screening, interview coordination, candidate experience, offer, and close.

This is a true founding seat. There is no People team, no recruiting ops, and no inherited sourcing playbook today. You’ll inherit Rippling as our ATS and a dedicated Slack channel for candidate submissions, and you’ll build everything else. You’ll partner closely with our CEO and our Sr. Director, Customer Solutions Engineering to calibrate the profile, hold the bar, and move fast.

Your first priorities are:

• Forward Deployed Engineer
• Data Migration

These engineers combine deep networking knowledge with strong TypeScript/JavaScript and modern tooling, and they work directly with our customers to get them live on gaiia. Adjacent profiles such as Solutions Architect, Implementation Engineer, Integration Engineer, and Professional Services Engineer draw from the same talent pool. As gaiia grows, you’ll also support product engineering hiring (backend, frontend, infrastructure, AI/agentic).

A successful candidate is energized by white space. You build the playbook instead of waiting for one, and you’re technically credible enough to run a first conversation with a senior engineer from the telco and network-vendor world.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical recruiting, with a track record of sourcing technical talent (not just sales or operations roles).
• Proven experience filling niche, hard-to-fill technical roles, and examples of where those candidates came from.
• Boolean search expertise, and comfort reviewing 50–100 profiles in a session.
• Direct sourcing strength. You don’t rely on inbound applicants or agencies.
• Experience closing candidates and negotiating offers.
• Familiarity with the networking, telecom, and infrastructure space.
• Networking concepts: you can tell when a candidate actually knows networking.
• TypeScript/JavaScript: you can assess whether someone is genuinely productive or only conversant.
• APIs, Postman, and integration patterns: you know what a strong answer to “walk me through a recent integration you built” sounds like.
• Awareness of whether candidates actually use AI tools and workflow platforms (n8n, Zapier).

Requirements

• A scrappy, self-sufficient operator who doesn’t need a support staff to be effective.
• A quality-over-volume mindset. You won’t send us low-signal candidates just to hit a number.
• A direct, no-BS communicator who gives and takes real-time feedback.
• Comfort partnering directly with an executive, with the confidence to challenge and calibrate.
• Strong opinions about tools, held loosely.
• Proficiency in English (French is a bonus).
• Willingness to travel occasionally to meet key candidates in person and join critical interview loops and team offsites.

Benefits

• Flexible 25 days of vacation.
• Stock Options Plan.
• Group Insurance.
• Telemedicine.
• Life Spending Account.
• Employee-sponsored RRSP.
• Flexible working hours & all-remote work.