Who We Are:
At Formic, we’re on a mission to revolutionize American manufacturing and create more abundance in the world. We believe in continuing the American legacy of innovation by making automation accessible to all manufacturers and increasing their factory productivity by 10x.
Supporting us in our mission, with investments thus far totaling over $60 million, are backers including Lux Capital, Initialized Capital, Blackhorn Ventures, Mitsubishi HC Capital NA, and CEOs and founders of multiple Fortune 50 companies.
As a Recruiter you will source, assess, and guide candidates through the hiring process while partnering with hiring managers and People leadership to define role requirements, understand team needs, and identify talent capable of driving meaningful results. Success in this role requires the ability to recruit for technical expertise, operational capability, cultural fit and add, and business-focused skill sets within an environment where roles evolve, priorities shift, and strong, informed judgment is essential.
In this role you will:
- Build targeted sourcing strategies for technical, operational, and business roles, with an emphasis on finding talent in specialized and competitive markets.
- Conduct deep, thoughtful candidate screens that uncover capabilities, working style, problem-solving approach, and potential contributions beyond what is written in a résumé.
- Map talent markets for priority roles and identify patterns that influence hiring strategy, candidate fit, and the sequencing of future hires.
- Partner with hiring managers to define the intersection of business needs and human capacity — translating priorities into clear competency profiles and aligned evaluation criteria.
- Create candidate pipelines that anticipate upcoming needs across engineering, robotics/automation, deployment, field service, operations, and GTM functions.
- Maintain active, ongoing relationships with high-potential candidates and surfacing them as the business evolves.
- Guide interview teams to assess what truly matters for the role and to differentiate between skill, potential, and fit-for-stage.
- Ensure candidates experience a clear, transparent process with strong communication and well-structured coordination at each step.
- Represent Formic authentically, with a clear understanding of how culture, mission, and expectations should be communicated to prospective hires.
What makes you a great fit:
- 3–7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with a demonstrated strength in sourcing and engaging passive, high-caliber talent.
- Experience recruiting in a startup or high-growth environment, with a demonstrable understanding of what this entails:
- Navigating shifting priorities, evolving role scopes, and imperfect information.
- Working closely with lean teams where each hire directly affects execution capacity.
- Crafting talent strategies without relying on large-company resources, brand awareness, or established pipelines.
- Making judgment calls on candidates’ adaptability, learning velocity, and ability to take ownership.
- Recognizing when a candidate can excel in ambiguity, wear multiple hats, and scale with the team.
- Ability to connect business needs with human capacity — translating team objectives and operational requirements into precise hiring criteria.
- Experience conducting in-depth, critical candidate screens that uncover not just technical ability but thought process, motivations, decision-making patterns, and long-term potential.
- Proven capability to build targeted sourcing strategies for both technical and non-technical roles, including talent mapping and outreach to specialized or hard-to-reach candidate pools.
- Strength in advising hiring managers on candidate quality, tradeoffs, team fit, and role calibration based on real-time market insights.
- Ability to assess candidates for both immediate impact and growth potential within a scaling organization.
- Excellent communication skills — able to set clear expectations, synthesize insights, and maintain alignment across stakeholders.
- Expertise with Applicant tracking systems (e.g. Ashby, Lever, Gem, etc.; we use Greenhouse), LinkedIn Recruiter, CRM, Google Suite, and other recruiting and workflow automation tools.
- For candidates located in the greater Chicago, San Francisco, or Los Angeles areas: willing & able to work in-person as needed when it meaningfully supports collaboration with the team
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At Formic, we believe you perform your best when you're supported in caring for yourself and your loved ones. That's why we've thoughtfully designed a comprehensive benefits and perks package for our full-time, U.S.-based team members, including:
Equity in Formic: Own a meaningful stake in a fast-growing Series A startup, backed by leading global investors
Comprehensive Healthcare Coverage: 99% covered Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance plans, with 75% coverage for dependents, provided by Blue Cross Blue Shield and Guardian
Additional Fully Covered Insurance Benefits: FSA & DCFSA, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability through Guardian, all 100% employer-paid
Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Fully funded by Formic and provided via Guardian, offering support when you need it most
Paid Parental Leave: Generous parental leave to support our employees and their growing families
Company-sponsored 401(k): Invest in your future with our company-backed retirement savings plan
Home Office Stipend: A one-time allowance for fully remote employees to set up your ideal at-home or on the road work environment
Monthly Cell-Phone Reimbursement: Monthly stipend toward phone and internet expenses
Flexible Time-Off: Take the time you need, when you need it, supported by our flexible PTO policy
Paid Company Holidays: Celebrate important dates with paid time off
Formic’s compensation packages - including salaries and equity - are thoughtfully benchmarked against peer companies at a similar growth stage. Equity represents a critical part of our mutual investment: when Formic succeeds, so do you.
Final compensation packages are carefully customized based on candidate preference for cash and equity balance, experience, geographic location, and market considerations. Our goal is to attract and reward top talent who will significantly impact our organization. We're open to meaningful discussions about compensation structure to secure exceptional team members.
The anticipated base pay range for this position is detailed below.
What we look for:
We’re building a company from the ground up, so every single person we hire has a massive impact on our team, culture, and ability to accomplish our mission. While each individual brings their own unique skills and perspectives to Formic, we look for people who share our vision and act in alignment with our Operating Principles. If this sounds like you, Formic could be the place for you!
- Fearless Optimism: You share our ambitious vision of what we can accomplish. You’re aware of the challenges we will face as a startup doing new things in an old space, but you’re energized by the incredible opportunity we have to drive change for our customers, and for the manufacturing industry at large.
- Factories First: You have a strong customer focus, no matter who your customer is. You seek to make things easier and better for our customers, even if it makes your job a little harder.
- Today, Not Tomorrow: There are always plenty of projects to tackle in a startup, but you prioritize, take accountability for work, and have a bias toward action.
- Be Right Often: You don’t do things just because that’s how they’ve always been done. You keep looking for ways to improve, seek out feedback along the way, and back your decisions up with data.
- Made of Rubber: Just like rubber, when you fall you bounce back up. You know there’s going to be a lot of challenge and change in our work ahead but you are adaptable, resilient, and ready to thrive through it all.
- Good Baton Passes: You work with a desire to make things easier and better for your team members. You use empathy to understand the needs and goals of others and support each other so Formic can be successful together.
Equal Opportunity
Formic is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion or religious creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, family or parental status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. All employment decisions are based on a person’s merit, business needs, and role requirements. If you require further accommodations or have questions regarding accessibility of our roles, please reach out to [email protected].
AI Use
At Formic, fairness and transparency are at the heart of our hiring process. We use AI-powered tools in some interviews to help our teams evaluate candidate responses, but all final hiring decisions are made by humans. You can learn more about how AI is used in our recruitment process by reviewing our AI Hiring Disclosure linked here.
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