Founding Recruiter & People Lead
Insight Xr
People & HR
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted on Mar 28, 2026
We're hiring our first recruiter at Sidecar.
$12 trillion in goods move by freight every year, coordinated by people copy-pasting between email and spreadsheets. We're building the AI that changes that.
About Sidecar
- Sidecar is an AI workplace software for freight forwarding. Our AI agent sits on a forwarder's inbox, reads every quote request, extracts shipping details from emails and PDFs, drafts professional responses, and triggers workflows across carriers and ERPs — all in seconds. What used to take a sales rep 30+ minutes per email now takes under a minute with human review.
- We believe the smartest logistics companies of 2030 will be run by 10 people with AI, not 100 people with spreadsheets. We're building the software that makes that possible.
The Role
- You'll be our first people hire. Today, hiring runs on Clay searches, Juicebox queries, Slack threads between the founders, and Claude-assisted pipeline tracking. It works, but it doesn't scale.
- You'll own recruiting end-to-end and eventually build out people operations as we grow from 10 to 50+.
What you'll do
- Own the full hiring pipeline: sourcing, screening, scheduling, offers, closing.
- Identify unconventional talent sources beyond traditional job boards (Open-source communities, niche forums, university placement records)
- Build and maintain AI workflows that automate sourcing, outreach, candidate tracking, and pipeline reporting - we don't do things manually when a tool can do it better
- Set up our ATS, scorecards, and hiring workflows so nothing falls through the cracks and every candidate gets a fast, transparent experience
- Own onboarding - make sure every new hire's first week is structured, welcoming, and sets them up to contribute fast
- Assist in building employer branding - careers page, LinkedIn presence, outbound messaging, job posts that actually attract talent
What we're looking for
- 1 –2 years in talent acquisition at a tech startup
- You've done tech recruiting and specifically hired engineers, not just filled generic roles. You can tell a backend engineer from an AI engineer and hold a real conversation with either.
- You're AI-native - not "aware of AI," but you actually use Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Replit, v0, or Copilot in your daily work because it makes you work faster.
- You've been promoted fast or converted from intern to FTE
- Bangalore-based, in-office
Nice to have
- Worked at a company that builds AI Products.
- Familiarity with ATS systems, recruiting tools, and modern sourcing techniques.
- Experience recruiting for early-stage startups (Series A or earlier).
- Graduate from the 2023–2025 batch (undergraduate or postgraduate) from a Tier 1 college.
Benefits
- Top-bracket salary and high equity compensation (meaningful ESOPs, not symbolic)
- Lunch and dinner at the office + unlimited snacks, coffee, energy drinks
- Annual wellness benefit (gym reimbursement)
- Health Insurance
We are backed by leading Silicon Valley VC’s, Angel Investors, and Industry Advisors, and pay top-
bracket salaries alongside equity compensation. We are highly selective and believe
in only hiring and retaining the best.