Recruiting Manager
Inkitt
People & HR
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Nov 8, 2025
Inkitt is building the Disney of the 21st Century, standing at the forefront of technology and entertainment. Leveraging AI and predictive algorithms, Inkitt discovers unknown stories and turns them into blockbuster hits, producing a new $1M ebook every 4 weeks and selling directly to consumers through its Galatea app. Inkitt has become the 11th most bestseller-generating publisher in the world, boasting a 40x higher hit-rate than traditional publishers. Recently raising a Series C and backed by some of the top VC’s such as: Khosla, Kleiner Perkins, and NEA Ventures, our recent expansion into CandyJarTV is only the beginning of our journey to becoming the next-gen entertainment powerhouse.
What You’ll Do:
- Establish the best practices and help define Inkitt’s recruiting strategy as we grow.
- Ability to balance direct reports, communicating with stakeholders, along with owning your own 2-4 roles end to end.
- You will partner with the Executive Team to attract and hire top talent, prioritizing quality over quantity. You’ll develop and execute recruiting strategies to meet headcount goals efficiently in a fast-paced startup environment.
- Track key funnel metrics and recruiting KPIs; build reports to inform hiring decisions.
- Create dashboards and metrics to track recruiting trends to improve effectiveness.
- Leverage the current recruiting platform while improving adoption and creating efficiencies.
- Provide market insights and data to guide hiring decisions.
- Establish metrics to measure recruiting effectiveness and continuously improve.
- This is the kind of role where you'll look back years from now and see your fingerprints on the entire company. This is an opportunity to be the architect behind a high performing, mission driven team at one of the fastest growing startups.
What You’ll Bring:
- 8+ years of recruiting experience with at least 2-3 years in people management roles, preferably in high growth technology environments
- Demonstrate a systems thinking approach to building scalable recruiting processes and operations.
- Active presence in the recruiting community with strong networks and knowledge of current recruiting ecosystem trends.
- Experience scaling recruiting teams through periods of rapid growth (2x-3x headcount in a year).
- Proven track record of successfully hiring both technical and non technical talent in highly competitive markets, with demonstrable wins in executive and staff+ engineering recruiting
- Bring high emotional intelligence and a collaborative leadership style with low ego.
- Strong technical acumen: Ability to understand and discuss complex technical concepts with candidates.
We look forward to hearing from you!