**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
Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
