Talent Acquisition Partner

About groundcover

groundcover offers a transformative approach to cloud-native observability unmatched by competitors. As part of our People team, you will go beyond selling a product—you will shape the narrative to position groundcover as the clear, modern choice for engineering and operations teams. Our Series B startup delivers a cutting-edge observability platform for cloud-native environments, powered by BYOC and eBPF, optimized for Kubernetes from the start. This all-in-one platform provides full stack observability with significantly reduced costs, overhead, and complexity.

As systems shift toward AI-driven services and large language model applications, observability must evolve accordingly. groundcover enables teams to gain insights into performance, reliability, and behavior across microservices, infrastructure, and AI workloads. We aren’t chasing existing category leaders; we aim to redefine the category.

We are a global people team committed to growing and developing teams while supporting global people initiatives collaboratively.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Talent Acquisition Partner to spearhead end-to-end recruiting, primarily focusing on Go-To-Market (GTM) roles. This is an exciting period of rapid growth, offering a unique chance to make a meaningful impact by driving our GTM hiring strategy and shaping our company culture from the ground up.

Location: Hybrid – Boston, MA / San Francisco, CA (New York-based candidates also considered).

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the entire recruitment lifecycle across various roles, primarily in GTM hiring.
• Conduct strategic sourcing by proactively identifying passive candidates through mapping target companies and leveraging communities, events, and other non-traditional channels, ensuring pipelines are ahead of hiring plans.
• Deliver a genuine and engaging candidate experience, acting as the authentic face of the company in every interaction.
• Collaborate closely with US hiring managers to deeply understand team needs and define effective hiring strategies.
• Utilize AI-powered sourcing tools to enhance talent discovery, research depth, and personalized outreach.
• Track and analyze key hiring metrics to optimize recruitment processes continuously.
• Engage with the global People team to share insights, learn collaboratively, and help steer company-wide talent strategies.

Essential Qualifications

• 4 to 5 years of comprehensive recruiting experience, with a strong emphasis on GTM roles within high-growth SaaS or developer tools companies.
• Demonstrated success sourcing and closing exceptional GTM talent with creative approaches to identify and engage hard-to-find candidates.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, able to deliver an authentic, high-touch candidate experience and build trusted strategic partnerships with hiring managers.
• Proficiency using AI tools to enhance sourcing efficiency, deepen research, and tailor outreach communications.
• Data-oriented mindset, experienced in tracking recruitment metrics and preparing pipeline reports to inform and refine hiring strategies.
• Familiarity with ATS platforms and modern recruiting technologies; experience with Comeet ATS is advantageous.
• Comprehensive knowledge of US employment laws, compensation and benefits benchmarks to ensure hiring practices are competitive and compliant.

Ideal Candidate Attributes

• Driven to build and scale teams, energized by contributing to organizational growth and directly impacting company outcomes through hires.
• Committed to hiring excellence beyond metrics, prioritizing a seamless, candidate-focused recruitment process that attracts exceptional talent to elevate teams.