Founding Recruiter

About the Role Founding Recruiter — Prism We're hiring a Founding Recruiter to join Prism, an AI-native recruiting platform, on the delivery side. You'd work on our most important client relationships, run the trickiest roles end-to-end, and work with us to build the playbook our team learns from as we scale. About Prism Prism is an AI-native recruiting platform. Recruiters use Prism the way developers use Cursor — the AI handles the grind (sourcing, outreach, screening, admin) so you can focus on the work that actually moves the needle: client conversations, candidate calls, closing. Our book of contracts is growing fast across tech/engineering, finance/professional services, and generalist roles — we've already placed at hedge funds and landed offers from some of the fastest-growing startups. We're now scaling the team with sector specialists. The role This is a founding seat on the recruiter side of Prism. You'd: Own roles end-to-end across our biggest contracts (tech, finance, generalist) Build and own client relationships at the senior level Develop the playbook for how we run a high-quality, high-velocity desk Mentor junior recruiters as we hire them — player-coach is on the table if you want it, but not required Be a power user of Prism itself, feeding product feedback directly into the team We're looking for 5+ years of full-cycle recruitment experience (agency, in-house, RPO, or executive search) A track record of placements and senior client management Strong written and verbal communication Comfortable owning multiple roles in parallel and prioritising hard Right to work in the UK Bonus: experience in tech/engineering or finance recruiting · early-stage / startup exposure · existing client book · familiarity with AI recruiting tools (Prism, Gem, hireEZ, or similar) · multiple languages, especially European. Compensation £50-80k base, depending on experience Performance commission on placements (10-20%) Up to 0.5-1% equity in Prism Location & type London, hybrid. Open to remote for the right person. Full-time, permanent.