Recruiting Lead

RECRUITING LEAD

Harper is an AI-native commercial insurance company in San Francisco. We're not bolting AI onto insurance — we're rebuilding the entire business as software, on a simple bet: turning expert human judgment into compute is one of the largest transitions left to make, and a trillion-dollar industry still run 90% by hand is the place to prove it. We've grown ~100x in the last year and we move at that speed — on-site, in person, long days, very high standards. Almost no one joins Harper for insurance; they join to build the company that replaces how it works.

THE ROLE IN ONE LINE

You are Harper's first dedicated recruiting hire. You source, sell, and close exceptional people yourself this week — and you build the function that lets Harper go from ~30 to 100+ without losing the bar.

WHY THIS ROLE EXISTS NOW

A rebuild this large is a talent problem before it's anything else. We're hiring against the best AI-native companies in the country for the same people, and at ~100x growth the cost of a mediocre hire — or a slow one — compounds fast. We don't have a recruiting function yet. You'll be it, then you'll build it.

This is not a coordination role. You're not scheduling other people's interviews or running a calendar. You're a closer and a function-builder: you find the candidate, you sell the bet, you close the offer, and then you build the system that lets the next ten hires happen without you in every loop. Execution and strategy — the same person doing both.

In 6–12 months you'll have filled critical roles yourself and stood up a repeatable recruiting machine that can absorb the next 10x. You'll also be thinking about the team we need 24 months out, not just today's open reqs.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Close candidates yourself. Source, screen, sell, and close across engineering, sales, and GTM. You own the funnel end to end.

- Own technical recruiting. Understand the stack, know which competitors to pull from, and carry a real...