Recruiter - Remote Eligible

Recruiter

As a Recruiter you will source, assess, and guide candidates through the hiring process while partnering with hiring managers and People leadership to define role requirements, understand team needs, and identify talent capable of driving meaningful results. Success in this role requires the ability to recruit for technical expertise, operational capability, cultural fit and add, and business-focused skill sets within an environment where roles evolve, priorities shift, and strong, informed judgment is essential.

In this role you will:

• Build targeted sourcing strategies for technical, operational, and business roles, with an emphasis on finding talent in specialized and competitive markets.
• Conduct deep, thoughtful candidate screens that uncover capabilities, working style, problem-solving approach, and potential contributions beyond what is written in a résumé.
• Map talent markets for priority roles and identify patterns that influence hiring strategy, candidate fit, and the sequencing of future hires.
• Partner with hiring managers to define the intersection of business needs and human capacity — translating priorities into clear competency profiles and aligned evaluation criteria.
• Create candidate pipelines that anticipate upcoming needs across engineering, robotics/automation, deployment, field service, operations, and GTM functions.
• Maintain active, ongoing relationships with high-potential candidates and surfacing them as the business evolves.
• Guide interview teams to assess what truly matters for the role and to differentiate between skill, potential, and fit-for-stage.
• Ensure candidates experience a clear, transparent process with strong communication and well-structured coordination at each step.
• Represent Formic authentically, with a clear understanding of how culture, mission, and expectations should be communicated to prospective hires.

What makes you a great fit:

• 3–7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with a demonstrated strength in sourcing and engaging passive, high-caliber talent.
• Experience recruiting in a startup or high-growth environment, with a demonstrable understanding of what this entails:
• Navigating shifting priorities, evolving role scopes, and imperfect information.
• Working closely with lean teams where each hire directly affects execution capacity.
• Crafting talent strategies without relying on large-company resources, brand awareness, or established pipelines.
• Making judgment calls on candidates' adaptability, learning velocity, and ability to take ownership.
• Recognizing when a candidate can excel in ambiguity, wear multiple hats, and scale with the team.
• Ability to connect business needs with human capacity — translating team objectives and operational requirements into precise hiring criteria.
• Experience conducting in-depth, critical candidate screens that uncover not just technical ability but thought process, motivations, decision-making patterns, and long-term potential.
• Proven capability to build targeted sourcing strategies for both technical and non-technical roles, including talent mapping and outreach to specialized or hard-to-reach candidate pools.
• Strength in advising hiring managers on candidate quality, tradeoffs, team fit, and role calibration based on real-time market insights.
• Ability to assess candidates for both immediate impact and growth potential within a scaling organization.
• Excellent communication skills — able to set clear expectations, synthesize insights, and maintain alignment across stakeholders.
• Expertise with Applicant tracking systems (e.g. Ashby, Lever, Gem, etc.; we use Greenhouse), LinkedIn Recruiter, CRM, Google Suite, and other recruiting and workflow automation tools.
• For candidates located in the greater Chicago, San Francisco, or Los Angeles areas: willing & able to work in-person as needed when it meaningfully supports collaboration with the team