About Primer

Fixing our K-12 education system is a civilizationally-important problem. We believe that all of our problems including the ones that dominate the headlines are downstream of education.

We have a simple thesis on how to solve it: empower 1000s of educators to launch microschools in their communities.

We believe the historical tradeoff between price (tuition) and quality is a false dichotomy.

PrimerOS automates and eliminates much of the costs of traditional schools. Microschools have a structural advantage asset-light real estate which means much lower capex and opex. You put it together and you get something thats never existed before: a world-class education thats accessible to normal American families and can rapidly scale.

About the Role

This role will be the force behind our hiring engine owning sourcing candidate experience and closing across all teams at Primer. Youll help us source exceptional talent for every team at Primer from education to engineering.

This is explicitly not a formulaic recruiting role. You wont spend your days recruiting your 117th engineer and 29th designer. Were solving problems that have never been solved before and have a near-constant need for niche talent.

Youll need to spike on both the people-facing art of recruiting and the behind-the-scenes systems required to build and scale a great recruiting engine.

If youre the type of person who loves the hunt the type of person for whom a phenomenal interview will make your week and the type of person who obsesses on getting that last sentence just right on an outbound email campaign wed love to meet you.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the founder hiring managers and finance to lead headcount planning and workforce forecasting.

• Own end-to-end recruiting across key roles at Primer from sourcing to close with a focus on quality speed and candidate experience.

• Partner closely with hiring managers across teams (education operations engineering product finance and more) to understand their needs and build strong pipelines of exceptional candidates.

• Build and maintain candidate outreach strategies including cold sourcing passive engagement and creative ways to reach new talent pools.

• Build and refine scalable recruiting processes tools and metrics.

• Manage our internal hiring infrastructure ensuring every candidate moves through a clear well-structured process.

• Quickly ramp up on new roles and lead first-round screening calls for teams across the company.

• Provide hiring managers with best practices training and guidance.

• Represent Primer to candidates with professionalism clarity and excitement about our mission youll almost always be their first impression of our team.

• Track and report on recruiting progress and metrics to the leadership team ensuring were constantly improving with each new search.

Qualifications

• Experience in a full-cycle recruiting or talent acquisition role ideally in a fast-paced high-growth startup.

• Prior experience in education/edtech strongly preferred.

• Experience in a recruiting leadership role.

• Proven success sourcing and hiring for a range of roles from individual contributors to leadership positions across multiple functions.

• Builder mentality: you enjoy solving problems from first principles and scaling what works.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to build trust with both candidates and the internal team.

• High agency high organizational skills youll need to manage multiple searches and deliver an exceptional candidate experience.

Nice-to-Haves

• Prior experience as a sole recruiter or founding talent hire.

• Experience with Ashby.

If this sounds like you fill out the application below with a bit about yourself and well take it from there!

Required Experience:

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