An Invitation to the Recruiting Founding Team

People · Full-time · SF / NY Builders Wanted This isn’t a traditional job posting. It’s a signal that expires after today. A short-lived invitation for exceptional recruiters and operators who feel aligned with how we’re building the Cursor talent team, and want to help shape what recruiting becomes. We don’t believe great recruiting teams are built accidentally. We believe they’re designed. Over the last few months, we’ve been quietly assembling what we believe is one of the most talent-dense recruiting teams with people who care deeply about their craft, operate with high agency, and are motivated by the messy hands-on work of company building. If you’ve been looking for an opportunity to join a team that’s looking to “build recruiting differently,” this is the moment to raise your hand.

What we’re building

Inside Cursor, recruiting mirrors how we build product:

• High agency, low friction
• Minimal hierarchy, maximum context
• Small embedded, full-stack recruiting pods
• Platform and AI-driven foundations that scale
• Shipping > talking. Always.

This is not a traditional recruiting org. There are no rigid lanes, no excessive process, no ladder-climbing culture. There is:

• Trust
• Ownership
• A relentless drive to do better and be better
• A group of exceptional humans who care deeply about the craft
• No middle management

Who this is for

We’re opening conversations across a few profiles:

• Senior Recruiters: Builders who think like owners and take responsibility for outcomes. You are constantly honing your craft and relentlessly pursue the very best talent.
• Recruiting Coordinators: Detail-oriented operators who thrive in fast-moving, evolving environments. You take pride in precision and genuinely like interacting with engineers and hiring teams. You make complexity feel calm.
• Talent Network Program Builders: Natural connectors who love bringing people together and building relationships. You’re able to quickly see how dots connect across people, backgrounds, and teams. You have a low tolerance for inefficient systems, and real excitement about discovering exceptional talent to join the team.

Titles matter less than how you think and operate.

This is not for you unless you:

• Have strong informed opinions on what great recruiting looks like
• Prefer autonomy over process
• Are relentless and uncompromising in your pursuit of the best talent
• Want to be embedded in the business, not “supporting” it
• Are excited by AI and the leverage it creates
• Care as much about who you work with as what you work on
• Are able to be in-office in our SF or NYC office

We believe the best teams are built by finding people who feel the pull. If this resonates, submit interest before this page comes down.

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