GTM Recruiting [Contract to hire]

Fireworks
San Mateo +1 more
HybridCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have experience in GTM roles at AI or high-growth startups and are excited about shaping AI-native hiring practices.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with experience building GTM teams in AI or developer tools environments
    — “Experience scaling GTM teams at a startup or hypergrowth company, ideally in AI, infrastructure, or developer tools.”
  • Individuals who view AI as an enabler for smarter recruitment practices
    — “You see AI as a tool that makes you a better recruiter, not a threat to the craft.”
  • Professionals who thrive on experimentation and process optimization in talent acquisition
    — “eager to experiment with AI-powered recruiting tools and workflows.”

Things to consider

  • This role demands a balance between urgency and maintaining a thoughtful candidate experience.
    — “Ability to work with urgency while maintaining high quality standards and a thoughtful candidate experience.”
  • Candidates should be prepared to work closely with GTM leaders and influence hiring strategies.
    — “Partner with GTM hiring managers and executives to understand business needs, calibrate on candidate profiles, and develop targeted hiring strategies.”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your experience with AI-powered sourcing and outreach tools in your resume and interview responses.
    — “Champion AI-native recruiting practices, from sourcing automation and outreach personalization.”
  • Demonstrate your ability to build and maintain talent pipelines for future needs.
    — “Build and maintain talent pipelines and market maps for current and future needs.”
  • Emphasize your collaborative approach with hiring managers and executives to shape strategy.
    — “Partner with GTM hiring managers and executives to understand business needs.”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • Built talent pipelines
  • Developed hiring strategies
  • Optimized recruiting operations
Typical background
2+ years of recruiting experienceExperience in fast-paced environments

Skills & requirements

Required

Full-cycle RecruitingGTM RolesPartnering With Hiring ManagersAi-native Recruiting Practices

Preferred

AI Recruiting ToolsTalent OperationsCompensation Benchmarking

Stack & domain

RecruitingFull-cycle RecruitingGTM FunctionsAi-powered Recruiting ToolsSourcingCandidate EngagementCompensation StructuresEquity BenchmarkingTalent OperationsRecruiting Tools And SystemsPartneringStrategic ThinkingProblem-solvingCommunicationCollaborationLeadershipAi-native CompanyEnterprise AI

About the role

Original posting from Fireworks via Ashby

ABOUT US:

Fireworks is the platform for specialized intelligence, enabling companies to build, train, and serve AI models tailored to their own data, workflows, and products. Founded by the team behind PyTorch and backed by AMD, Atreides, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital, and TCV, Fireworks powers production AI with hundreds of state-of-the-art open models across text, image, embedding, audio, and multimodal workloads. Today, Fireworks is a Series D company valued at $17.5 billion, bringing together an ambitious, collaborative team that's building the future of enterprise AI.

THE ROLE

We're looking for a strategic and hands-on GTM Recruiting team member [Contract to hire] to join our growing People team and help fuel our next phase of growth. In this role, you'll own full-cycle recruiting for Go-To-Market functions — including Sales, Marketing and Partnerships — partnering closely with GTM leaders to build world-class teams that can take Fireworks' platform to market.

This isn't just a recruiting role, it's a chance to shape how an AI-native company hires. We're looking for someone who is genuinely excited about the AI industry, eager to experiment with AI-powered recruiting tools and workflows, and ready to help define what modern, intelligent talent acquisition looks like. If you love being at the forefront of both AI and hiring, this role was built for you.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Own full-cycle GTM recruitment across Sales, Marketing, Partnerships, Solutions Engineering, and Customer Success, with a focus on quality, speed, and candidate experience.
  • Partner with GTM hiring managers and executives to understand business needs, calibrate on candidate profiles, and develop targeted hiring strategies. Build and maintain talent pipelines and market maps for current and future needs.
  • Proactively source and engage high-caliber GTM talent through direct outreach, networking, referrals, and AI-powered sourcing platforms.
  • Collaborate with HRBPs, Compensation, and other People functions to align on role design, comp benchmarking, and market intelligence to inform hiring plans.
  • Champion AI-native recruiting practices, from sourcing automation and outreach personalization to pipeline analytics, while optimizing recruiting operations and tooling for a scalable, inclusive process.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

  • 2+ years of hands-on recruiting experience, ideally in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
  • Proven track record recruiting for GTM roles across Sales, Marketing and Partnerships.
  • Demonstrated ability to partner with founders, hiring managers, and senior GTM leaders to shape and influence hiring strategy.
  • Strong sourcing and candidate engagement skills, with a knack for identifying and activating top GTM talent.
  • Ability to work with urgency while maintaining high quality standards and a thoughtful candidate experience.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Experience scaling GTM teams at a startup or hypergrowth company, ideally in AI, infrastructure, or developer tools.
  • Familiarity with compensation structures and equity benchmarking in early-stage startups.
  • Hands-on experience with AI recruiting tools, whether that's AI-assisted sourcing, automated outreach, or workflow automation, and genuine enthusiasm to explore what's next.
  • Experience with Talent Operations to implement and optimize recruiting tools, systems, and workflows.

WHO YOU ARE (BEYOND THE RESUME)

You're passionate about the AI industry. Not just as a recruiter operating in it, but as someone who follows it, thinks about it, and is excited to be part of building it. You see AI as a tool that makes you a better recruiter, not a threat to the craft. You're curious, experimental, and energized by figuring out how to do things better and faster. You bring that same energy to finding and closing exceptional GTM talent.

WHY FIREWORKS?

  • Solve Hard Problems: Tackle challenges at the forefront of AI infrastructure, from low-latency inference to scalable model serving.
  • Build What’s Next: Work with bleeding-edge technology that impacts how businesses and developers harness AI globally.
  • Ownership & Impact: Join a fast-growing, passionate team where your work directly shapes the future of AI—no bureaucracy, just results.
  • Learn from the Best: Collaborate with world-class engineers and AI researchers who thrive on curiosity and innovation.

Fireworks AI is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all innovators.

Source: Fireworks careers (Ashby)

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