Senior Recruiter

Company & Mission Overview:

Our mission: We exist to connect climate and financial risk.

Who we are: First Street is the standard for Climate Risk Financial Modeling. For over a decade, we’ve been translating climate risk into decision-useful financial outcomes for investors, businesses, communities, and property owners worldwide. With backing from world-class firms, including Innovation Endeavors, Galvanize, General Catalyst, and others, our team has raised millions to change how the global economy thinks about climate change.

Read more about our culture here and see what Climate Risk Financial Modeling is all about here.

Our data: We’ve assembled leading climate scientists and economists to develop transparent, peer-reviewed methodologies to calculate the past, present, and future climate risk for properties and asset classes spanning real estate, infrastructure, and companies. Using physics-based deterministic models, we predict the likelihood of floods, wildfires, hurricanes, and other hazards at any location on Earth, along with associated damage and downtime.

Our customers: We aim to incorporate climate risk data into every financial decision made today. We are relied on every day by:

• Institutional investors like Norges Bank Investment Management and Blackstone.

• Banking enterprises, including Bank of America and Fifth Third.

• Government bodies ranging from Fannie Mae to the US State of Connecticut.

• Millions of everyday users on Zillow, Redfin, Realtor.com, Homes.com, and more.

Come join us and use your talents to change the world.

Team & Role Overview:

We are looking for a Senior Recruiter to find, recruit, and close top tier talent for First Street. The ideal candidate is excited about team building, process building, contributing to broader People initiatives, and working at a growth stage company. This role will play a critical part in scaling First Street during a period of organizational growth with the opportunity to support hiring across a wide range of functions including go-to-market, product, engineering, operations, and climate science. Recruiting will remain the clear primary focus of this role, with occasional opportunities to support onboarding and broader People initiatives. This role will have significant visibility across leadership as First Street continues scaling its teams and capabilities. The Senior Recruiter reports to the Director of People.

What you’ll do:

• Manage the entire recruiting process from role kick off to closing

• Act as a trusted advisor to hiring managers and leadership teams on hiring strategy, talent market trends, interview design, and candidate calibration

• Build a pipeline of candidates through a variety of inbound and outbound sourcing channels, including our job board, linkedin sourcing, and your personal network

• Help refine and scale recruiting processes, interview practices, and talent operations as the company grows

• Drive searches across highly specialized and competitive talent markets, balancing speed, quality, and candidate experience

• Utilize AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini

• Conduct recruiter screens, assessing for company stage and mission alignment as well as domain expertise

• Use data-driven insights to improve recruiting efficiency and influence hiring decisions

• Obsess over exceptional candidate experience

• Serve as an expert-user on our internal recruiting tools and processes

• Maintain strong data integrity in Ashby

• ** Work out of the NYC HQ at least 3x per week

What you’ll need:

• 4-10 years of full cycle experience recruiting in a fast paced environment

• Strong understanding of recruiting best practices

• Mission alignment with an interest in the climate technology space

• Experience supporting a range of teams and working across different domains

• Direct experience working with members of the executive team

• Experience working with an Applicant Tracking System (ATS), like Greenhouse, Lever, or Ashby (we use Ashby)

• Excellent comm