Founding Technical Recruiter

About Garage

Marketplace for America's most essential assets

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**About us**

Garage powers the exchange of critical assets across America’s essential industries. We started with fire departments, where purchasing mission-critical vehicles and equipment used to take months of paperwork, phone calls, and delays. Our agentic platform automates the entire transaction: discovery, payments, freight, paperwork, warranty, and financing. What once took months now takes minutes.

In under a year, we’ve expanded to cities and towns in all 50 states and grown revenue more than 10x. Based in New York, we’ve raised $18M from Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, Infinity Ventures, FJ Labs, and other leading investors. We’re moving fast, growing quickly, and just getting started.

**About the role**

As the founding Technical Recruiter, you will help build the Engineering, Product, and Design teams behind Garage’s next stage of growth. You’ll partner closely with the CTO/Co-founder and engineering leaders to identify the builders who can turn a complex, mission-critical marketplace into an experience that customers love.

This is a hands-on role for someone who treats sourcing as a craft. You will own searches end to end, build targeted pipelines from scratch, run a fast and thoughtful process, and help Garage raise the bar with every hire.

- Own full-cycle hiring across engineering, product, design, and data science, partnering with founders to attract and close exceptional technical talent.

- Build and execute targeted sourcing strategies using outbound, referrals, communities, and technical communities to fill high-priority roles quickly.

- Run structured, high-quality recruiting processes, from screening through offer, while delivering an exceptional candidate experience.

- Track pipeline health in Ashby and build scalable recruiting systems and playbooks.

- Help grow out our recruiting team as the company grows.

**What we’re looking for**

- Treats recruiting as an ownership role and cares deeply about quality of hire.

- Knows how to engage technical talent and can make Garage stand out through compelling outreach.

- Enjoys building processes where it helps, but prefers practical systems over heavy recruiting bureaucracy.

- Is excited by Garage’s stage: small team, high trust, high ownership, and a lot of foundational hiring still ahead.

**Required**

- Full-cycle experience in hiring technical talent for software engineering, design, product development, and data science.

- A strong network with existing knowledge of the NYC startup talent market.

- Ability to close talent with a strong eye for culture fit.

- Passion for building high-performance teams in a fast-paced, innovative environment.

- Experience using Ashby, Juicebox, Metaview, Gem, Clay, ChatGPT, Claude, or other modern recruiting and AI tools.

- Strong organization in an ATS like Ashby.

**Our values**

- **Growth oriented.** We invest in people who grow as the company grows. We all should be constantly learning.

- **Humility.** Everyone has a lot to give and a lot to learn. We believe in creating an environment where the best ideas win and acknowledging when we are wrong.

- **Customer focused.** We have a genuine love for our customers. Customer success is our success.

- **Hack to success.** We move fast and take big swings. We always aim for a solution that addresses 80% of the problem in 20% of the time. We make informed bets, launch quickly, and iterate.

**Why Garage?**

- Our product is something people use everyday to buy the equipment local communities everywhere depend on.

- We’ve grown revenue over 10x in the last year and are well capitalized with $18M in funding raised total.

- We have a talent-dense, high-performing team from Ramp, Twitter, Goldman Sachs, Bilt, Wise, Unify, Honey, PayPal, and more.

- You’ll be one of our first 35 employees, operating as a foundational member of the team, partnering alongside the company’s founders.

**What we offer**

- Competitive salary and stock options

- Health, dental and vision insurance (100% covered)

- Unlimited paid time off every year (in addition to company observed holidays)

- Daily lunch and dinner

- $100 monthly wellness stipend

- 401(k) with employer match

- Pre-tax commuter benefits

- Bi-annual team offsite

- Relocation assistance