Senior Recruiter

About the Company

Inspira Education Group is a rapidly expanding edtech business in the United States. Its core mission is to make high-quality coaching more accessible so students everywhere have a fair chance to reach top opportunities.

The company brings together a leading network of admissions coaches across medical, legal, business, and college pathways, combining software and services to improve and modernize the application journey for people from varied backgrounds around the world.

Backed by prominent venture investors, the organization is growing quickly and building for long-term impact.

Role Overview

This position is for a seasoned full-cycle senior corporate recruiter who will partner closely with the founders and talent acquisition team to help build a high-performing organization for a Series A edtech startup. The role goes beyond standard recruiting and will have a direct influence on hiring strategy, leadership hiring, and company culture.

The successful candidate will help bring in functional leaders and critical team members as the business scales. The role requires more than 5 years of focused recruitment experience, along with strong command of the full hiring lifecycle, from sourcing and screening to interviewing and closing candidates.

This is an on-site position based in the New York City office in Gramercy, with a five-day workweek.

What Makes This Opportunity Stand Out

• Chance to help build the company’s future team from the ground up
• Direct exposure to founders and influence over key hiring decisions
• Visible impact, since the people hired will shape the company’s direction
• Fast-moving environment with significant growth and responsibility

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end hiring, including job ad creation, sourcing, screening, interviews, reference checks, background verification, and offer preparation.
• Partner with the co-founders to identify, attract, and hire important leaders while shaping recruiting strategy.
• Support hiring across many new roles as the startup continues to scale.
• Represent the company as an attractive destination for top talent.
• Use creative and data-informed methods to identify and engage high-quality candidates.
• Contribute to new and ongoing recruiting initiatives using innovative outreach and hiring approaches.
• Prepare weekly hiring updates and share progress with the founding team and assigned managers.
• Work closely with management to ensure a strong candidate journey.
• Coordinate with HR and hiring managers to maintain recruiting process compliance and strong working relationships.
• Build sourcing reports, pipeline handoff data sheets, and quality assessments for candidate and hiring data.
• Help evaluate staffing needs and support recruitment planning.
• Manage all external job postings for assigned openings.
• Take on additional duties as required.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of full-cycle recruiting experience in a scaling startup environment, ideally across functions such as Marketing, Sales, Finance, and Customer Support.
• Background hiring for new department heads, individual contributors, senior professionals, managers, and C-suite roles.
• Ability to work independently, think creatively, and solve problems proactively.
• Strong teamwork skills and comfort operating in a fast-paced, changing environment.
• Solid experience sourcing passive talent and using data to improve outreach-to-conversion results.
• Hands-on experience with ATS tools, preferably Greenhouse.
• Comfort using Google Workspace, LinkedIn, and Slack.
• Strong project coordination skills with the ability to manage deadlines.
• Clear and persuasive communication skills across writing, speaking, and presentations.
• Good analytical ability and experience working with data.
• Prior in-house startup recruiting experience is required.

Candidate Profile

• Someone who values authentic relationship-building.
• A person with a strong drive to win and deliver results.
• A curious mindset and eagerness to learn.
• High determination and the ability to push through challenges.
• Energetic, adaptable, and positive under pressure.
• Persistent and highly motivated.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision coverage, with base plans fully paid by the employer.
• Flexible PTO and paid holidays.
• 401(k) plan with company match.

Compensation

The role offers a base salary of $120,000 plus a bonus of $20,000 to $30,000. Final compensation depends on experience, skills, knowledge, abilities, and location. The exact mix of base pay and target incentive will be finalized at the offer stage, and the company may adjust the pay range at its discretion.

Equal Opportunity

The company provides employment opportunities and benefits without discrimination based on race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other legally protected status.