HR & Recruiting Lead

About Shade

Shade is scaling and fast. In a year and half, we've built out the combined tech of FrameIO (acq by Adobe for $1.275B) and LucidLink ($40M ARR) while combining it with proprietary AI search/labeling. We handle thousands of hours of video and tens of millions of requests every day, and we're a critical piece of infrastructure for post-production houses, creative agencies, sports teams, and internal media teams at large companies. Customers include The New York Times, HelloFresh, Ripple, Fidelity, and Columbia University. We're growing 150% QoQ, 120% NRR.

Backed by Khosla, General Catalyst, Contrary, Signalfire and Bling.

About the Role

Recruiting comes first. You'll own every search end to end, from sourcing to close, across GTM, technical, and operations roles, with five open today. You'll also support HR operations with our bizops team, including onboarding, benefits, leave, and compliance.

You'll work cross-functionally with hiring managers across the company and with our ops team.

What You'll Own & Achieve

• Own full-cycle recruiting: sourcing, screening, interview loops, references, and closing, with several searches running in parallel

• Own the hiring plan and the funnel metrics behind it: time-to-fill, stage pass-through, offer-accept rate, and source effectiveness

• Manage our recruiting agencies, decide when a search justifies a placement fee, and bring the rest in-house

• Build the hiring infrastructure we don't have yet: scorecards, structured interview loops, a consistent offer process, and an employer brand

• Run onboarding so new hires are productive in their first weeks, and support HR operations with our bizops team: Rippling, benefits and open enrollment, leave, compliance, and policies

• Stand up performance review and feedback cycles, and keep leveling, compensation bands, and offer decisions consistent as headcount grows

What We're Looking For

• 4+ years across recruiting and people operations, including time as a first or early People hire at a VC-backed startup

• Experience personally sourcing and closing candidates for both sales and technical roles using LinkedIn Recruiter, Ashby, and/or Juicebox

• Experience running onboarding, benefits, policies, and HRIS without a larger team

• A habit of tracking search performance, including time-to-fill, candidate drop-off, and offer acceptance

• Discretion with sensitive information

• High ownership: you spot problems early and see changes through, on your own or with cross-functional partners

• Comfortable building without a finished playbook

Nice to Have

• Rippling administration experience

• GTM hiring at a B2B SaaS company

• Experience planning team offsites and company events

How We Work

Our team is flexible, moves quickly, and is always interested in new technologies and ideas to accelerate development and improve our processes. We value people who take ownership, communicate proactively, and bring fresh ideas to the table. You won't be handed a fully built playbook — you'll help write it.

Perks!

You are more than "shareholder value." We build our team around personal investment and ambition, so we offer benefits like:

• Office snacks, free lunch, comp-ed dinners

• Full health insurance (w. dental & vision), 401k with % match

• Unlimited PTO

• Lifetime gym membership

• Commuter cards for subway/bus —> we work in-person

• ^^ You'll want to work in-person! We are fun! Our office is cool!

And, of course, these are in addition to salary and equity. At Shade, you are the "shareholder."

Compensation

$140k-$170k plus equity.