Associate Recruiter

About the Role

HIRECLOUT is hiring an ambitious Associate Recruiter to join our team in Woodland Hills, California. This is a fast-paced, commercial position that combines recruiting, relationship building, sales, market research, negotiation, and lead generation. You will recruit sales, marketing, customer success, revenue operations, and other go-to-market professionals for high-growth technology and technology-enabled companies. You will learn how to identify exceptional talent, engage passive candidates, manage complex hiring processes, close placements, and generate new business opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

• Learn and manage the full candidate lifecycle, from initial sourcing through offer acceptance
• Recruit professionals across sales, marketing, customer success, partnerships, revenue operations, and GTM leadership
• Develop a strong understanding of each client, position, hiring need, and ideal candidate profile
• Build targeted talent pipelines using LinkedIn Recruiter, our internal database, referrals, market research, and AI-powered recruiting tools
• Conduct high-volume outbound outreach through phone, email, LinkedIn, and other channels
• Engage passive candidates and present compelling career opportunities
• Interview and qualify candidates based on experience, performance, motivation, compensation, career goals, and cultural alignment
• Prepare strong candidate submissions for clients
• Prepare candidates for interviews and manage communication throughout the hiring process
• Gather feedback, resolve concerns, maintain momentum, and deliver an excellent candidate experience
• Support offer negotiations, counteroffer management, references, and candidate closing
• Build long-term relationships with high-performing GTM professionals
• Identify hiring signals, organizational changes, and market intelligence through candidate conversations
• Generate warm leads, hiring-manager introductions, referrals, and potential business opportunities
• Maintain accurate candidate, client, and lead information in the ATS and CRM
• Collaborate with experienced recruiters and business development leaders to convert qualified opportunities into searches
• Meet weekly outreach, conversation, submission, interview, placement, and lead-generation goals
• Continuously improve your understanding of GTM roles, technology companies, consultative selling, and professional recruiting

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Experience in sales, business development, hospitality, customer service, luxury retail, real estate, account management, recruiting, or another relationship-driven field
• Genuine interest in building a long-term career in professional recruiting and search
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Confidence initiating conversations with people you do not already know
• Ability to build rapport quickly and ask thoughtful, direct questions
• Comfortable working on the phone and conducting consistent outbound outreach
• Competitive, coachable, resilient, and motivated by measurable results
• Able to handle rejection, maintain urgency, and follow through consistently
• Commercially curious and capable of recognizing hiring needs, introductions, and potential business opportunities
• Highly organized, responsive, and attentive to detail
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-accountability environment
• Willing to learn recruiting technology, AI tools, an ATS, and a CRM
• Able to work from HIRECLOUT’s Woodland Hills office five days per week

Qualifications

• Previous recruiting experience is welcomed but not required.
• Success in a commission-based or performance-driven position
• Sales, hospitality, business development, customer-facing, or agency experience
• A record of exceeding goals, quotas, or service expectations
• Strong phone presence and confidence conducting outbound outreach
• Experience persuading, negotiating, resolving objections, or closing
• Evidence of rapid career progression or increased responsibility
• Familiarity with technology, SaaS, startups, or professional services
• A genuine desire to become a big biller and eventually develop your own client relationships
• Enjoy connecting with people and understanding what motivates them
• Energized by goals, competition, and measurable success
• Want income and advancement to be influenced by performance
• Can hear “no” without losing momentum
• Want to learn both recruiting and business development
• Prefer a commercial career over a traditional HR career
• Want direct access to accomplished recruiters who will train and mentor you
• Serious about developing into a top-producing search professional