Founding Recruiter – Travel Startup

Join Tern and Help Build the Future of Travel
This is not a standard recruiting role. We need someone who can own the entire recruiting function, move with urgency, and drive extraordinary hiring outcomes. You will be responsible for hiring across multiple teams at onceoften with shifting prioritiesand you will be expected to deliver. If you thrive in ambiguity, love the challenge of building from scratch, and want to leave a lasting impact on a fast-scaling startup, this is the role for you.
In this role, youll own the full-cycle recruiting process for a variety of roles across engineering, marketing, operations, sales, and leadershipoften juggling multiple high-priority hires at once.
Youll work closely with hiring managers, source top-tier talent, and ensure a seamless, high-touch candidate experience.
If you thrive in a high-growth environment, love the challenge of building teams from the ground up, and are passionate about travel tech, this is the role for you.
What Youll Do
Own full-cycle recruiting across multiple departments, from sourcing to offer stage.
Work cross-functionally with hiring managers to define hiring needs and develop tailored recruiting strategies.
Source top talent using a mix of outbound outreach, referrals, and creative sourcing techniques. Proactively identify top talent, often in competitive markets (engineers, product, GTM).
Outreach: Personalized, high-conversion messagingcold outreach that sells the mission.
Screening & Assessment: Ability to vet both technical (engineering, data) and non-technical roles (sales, marketing).
Closing: Skilled at selling the opportunity to high-caliber candidates who might have multiple offers.
Drive an outstanding candidate experience, ensuring every candidate interaction reflects Terns values.
Manage multiple roles at once, balancing priorities in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.
Optimize our hiring processes to scale with our rapid growth.
Who You Are
Experienced: 4+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally in a high-growth startup environment.
Multi-Disciplinary: Comfortable hiring across multiple functions, from engineering to marketing to leadership.
Tech-Savvy: Familiar with modern recruiting tools and AI-powered sourcing strategies.
High-Velocity: Youre used to working at a breakneck pace, managing multiple open roles without missing a beat.
Relationship-Driven: You build trust with hiring managers, candidates, and the broader team.
Resourceful & Proactive: You dont wait for applications to roll inyou go find the best talent.
Data-Driven: You use data and insights to refine and improve the hiring process.
Process Builder & Operator: Tracking pipeline health, time to hire, conversion ratesbuilding recruiting as a data-driven function.
Culture Carrier: You define and live the company values and you carry those throughout the recruiting process.
Founder Mentality: High ownership, scrappy, resourceful.
What We Offer
Competitive Salary & Equity Meaningful ownership in a venture-backed startup.
Fully Remote Work Join a distributed team with flexible working arrangements.
World-Class Team Work alongside high-performing, mission-driven teammates.
Health & Wellness Comprehensive benefits, including 100% coverage for you and 80% for dependents.
Mission-Driven Work Help build technology that empowers travel advisors and transforms the industry.
Travel Perks Were in travel, after all! Opportunities for industry events, conferences, and networking.
Why Tern?
Tern is building the future of travel technology for travel agencies and advisors. Were replacing legacy tools and building a modern, powerful platform that makes running a travel business easier, more profitable, and more scalable.
If youre looking for a structured, relaxed work environment, this is not the role for you. But if you want to own recruiting end-to-end, move fast, and help build an industry-changing company, lets talk.