About this job
<p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>TL;DR: </strong>We're hiring a Contract Sales Recruiter to own full-cycle recruiting for Account Executives at Listen Labs. You'll source, manage agency partners, run process, and close. Remote-friendly.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Background</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Listen Labs is an AI-powered research platform that helps teams uncover insights from customer interviews in hours — not months. We help customers analyze conversations, surface themes, and make faster, smarter product decisions.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Company highlights — entirely product-led:</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>World-Class Team:</strong> Founded by serial entrepreneurs (previous AI exit), former co-founders, and talent from Jane Street, Twitter, Stripe, Affirm, Bain, Goldman Sachs, and many more Sequoia-backed startups (plus IOI/ICPC backgrounds).</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Hypergrowth:</strong> We’re a 30-person team backed by Sequoia, growing from $0 to a $12M run-rate in under a year. We move fast, care deeply about craft, and love working with people who take ownership.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Traction: </strong>Rapid growth across segments with enterprise wins at Google, Microsoft, Nestlé, and P&G.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Performance: </strong>Industry-leading win rate driven by a highly differentiated product.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Market Validation: </strong>Consistently winning customers across all segments with over six-figure lands that lead to quick expansions.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Viral Product:</strong> Interviews are shared with tens of thousands of viewers, fueling PLG, organic expansion, and daily inbound from Fortune 500s.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own full-cycle recruiting for AE roles — sourcing, outreach, screens, offer, close.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Source candidates directly and manage a funnel of external agency partners in parallel.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Vet, onboard, and manage agency relationships: scorecards, feedback turnaround, fee negotiation, cutting underperformers.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build and refine the AE interview loop, scorecards, and candidate collateral.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Partner with sales leadership on comp strategy and close negotiations.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Keep Ashby data clean — pipeline health, pass-through rates, source mix (direct vs. agency).</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Who You Are</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">3+ years of full-cycle recruiting, with meaningful time spent specifically on Sales/AE hiring.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Direct experience running and managing agency funnels — not just receiving submittals, but triaging, coaching, and holding agencies to a bar.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Comfortable in a startup or high-growth environment with minimal structure.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Proven closer — can speak to specific AE reqs you've filled and time-to-fill.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Strong outbound/sourcing chops; you don't rely on inbound or agencies alone.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Analytical — you think in funnel conversion, not just headcount.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Remote OK; some overlap with SF hours expected for standups/interviews.</p></li></ul><p>Find more <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.fr/english-speaking-jobs">English Speaking Jobs in France</a> on Arbeitnow</a>