About this role
About Clera
Clera is an AI talent agent that connects top tech talent with VC-backed startups like Mintlify, Luminai, and Windsurf. We take a talent-first approach: making it easy for candidates to discover roles, get coached through the process, and actually get hired. Thousands of talents engage with Clera every week, and we've already helped many land roles at companies they love.
The $600B recruiting industry is ripe for AI-driven disruption. We're early enough that you'll get meaningful ownership, far enough that we have a product, paying customers, and a team of A-players.
The Role
We're hiring a Founding Recruiting Account Manager to own employer relationships end-to-end and drive hiring outcomes. You'll be the day-to-day point person for clients, keeping searches moving, ensuring alignment, and delivering an experience that earns repeat business.
This is a high-ownership IC role with clear, measurable outcomes and direct impact on how we scale.
What You'll Do
- Own a portfolio of employer accounts: communication, expectations, timelines, delivery
- Run onboarding and kickoffs to ensure tight alignment from day one
- Partner with hiring managers to nail down role requirements, interview processes, and success criteria
- Maintain cadence: weekly updates, pipeline reviews, feedback loops, and decision-driving
- Spot and resolve risks early (stalled searches, misalignment, slow feedback)
- Coordinate with internal recruiters/sourcers to translate client needs into execution
- Track performance via simple dashboards and scorecards (pipeline health, speed, conversion)
- Drive renewals and expansion by delivering strong results and surfacing new hiring needs
- As a founding hire, shape the playbook for how Clera manages employer relationships at scale
What Success Looks Like
- Clients feel informed and supported with consistent progress and clear next steps
- Searches move fast with strong alignment and minimal churn
- High retention and repeat business driven by a standout employer experience
- Clean process internally and externally: tight handoffs, consistent reporting, nothing dropped
What We're Looking For
- 3-7 years in account management or client services at a recruiting agency or staffing firm
- Track record managing multiple concurrent employer relationships
- Strong consultative and operational skills: you can advise and you can execute
- Comfortable navigating stakeholders (hiring managers, recruiters, HR/finance) and driving decisions
- Detail-oriented with excellent written communication and follow-through
- Commercial mindset: you think about retention, expansion, and long-term account value
Nice to Have
- Client-side experience (in-house recruiting or HR partnership)
- Experience supporting high-growth or high-volume hiring teams
- Comfort with CRMs, ATS tools, and basic reporting
About Clera
Clera is a fast-growing AI startup changing how top talent and high-growth companies find each other. We've raised a large pre-seed round to tackle recruiting's core problem: the best candidates never apply. We work with leading teams like Luminai, Windsurf, and Mintlify, and we believe recruiting should be talent-first. That means making it easy to get discovered, be coached through the process, and actually land the role you deserve.
Clera is a fast-growing AI start-up that is changing how top talents find jobs with AI start-ups. We are working with some of the leading companies like Luminai, Windsurf and mintlify.
We are convinced that the recruiting process needs to be talent-first to make it easy to get in touch with those companies, be coached in the journey and actually get hired.
Join the team
Cracked team of operators and ex-founders who moved together to a hackerhouse to go all-in and provide some real impact. You'll work directly with the founders:
• Sebastian (CEO) — Built two consumer marketplaces to 15K users, first at 17. Saw firsthand the value human recruiters provide.
• Daniel (CTO) — Head of Engineering at HR scale-up Lofino (acquired), led 15 engineers. Serial builder — first startup at 18, then a VC-backed marketplace.
• Alexander (COO) — Scaled a Series A messenger startup to €10M ARR as Chief of Staff. Led recruiting (80 FTEs) and growth.
Employee benefits
Our culture
- Fast-paced startup
- Talent-first
- High ownership
- Collaborative
Our Team
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