Overview
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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. Our thesis is to empower thousands of educators to launch microschools in their communities. PrimerOS automates and reduces costs of traditional schools, enabling world-class education that is accessible to normal American families and scalable through asset-light real estate.
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 — you’ll almost always be their first impression of our team.
- Track and report on recruiting progress and metrics to the leadership team, ensuring we’re 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 — you’ll 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 we’ll take it from there! If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to email us at
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