About Primer

Fixing our K-12 education system is a civilizationally-important problem. We believe that all of our problems — including the ones that dominate the headlines — are downstream of education.

We have a simple thesis on how to solve it: empower 1,000's of educators to launch microschools in their communities.

We believe the historical tradeoff between price (tuition) and quality is a false dichotomy.

PrimerOS automates and eliminates much of the costs of traditional schools. Microschools have a structural advantage — asset-light real estate — which means much lower capex and opex. You put it together, and you get something that's never existed before: a world-class education that's accessible to normal American families and can rapidly scale.

About the Role

This role will be the force behind our hiring engine — owning sourcing, candidate experience, and closing across all teams at Primer. You’ll help us source exceptional talent for every team at Primer, from education to engineering.

This is explicitly not a formulaic recruiting role. You won’t spend your days recruiting your 117th engineer and 29th designer. We’re solving problems that have never been solved before and have a near-constant need for niche talent.

You’ll need to spike on both the people-facing art of recruiting and the behind-the-scenes systems required to build and scale a great recruiting engine.

If you’re the type of person who loves the hunt, the type of person for whom a phenomenal interview will make your week, and the type of person who obsesses on getting that last sentence just right on an outbound email campaign — we’d love to meet you.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the founder, hiring managers, and finance to lead headcount planning and workforce forecasting.

• Own end-to-end recruiting across key roles at Primer — from sourcing to close — with a focus on quality, speed, and candidate experience.

• Partner closely with hiring managers across teams (education, operations, engineering, product, finance, and more) to understand their needs and build strong pipelines of exceptional candidates.

• Build and maintain candidate outreach strategies — including cold sourcing, passive engagement, and creative ways to reach new talent pools.

• Build and refine scalable recruiting processes, tools, and metrics.

• Manage our internal hiring infrastructure, ensuring every candidate moves through a clear, well-structured process.

• Quickly ramp up on new roles and lead first-round screening calls for teams across the company.

• Provide hiring managers with best practices, training, and guidance.

• Represent Primer to candidates with professionalism, clarity, and excitement about our mission — you’ll almost always be their first impression of our team.

• Track and report on recruiting progress and metrics to the leadership team, ensuring we’re constantly improving with each new search.

Qualifications

• Experience in a full-cycle recruiting or talent acquisition role, ideally in a fast-paced, high-growth startup.

• Prior experience in education/edtech strongly preferred.

• Experience in a recruiting leadership role.

• Proven success sourcing and hiring for a range of roles, from individual contributors to leadership positions across multiple functions.

• Builder mentality: you enjoy solving problems from first principles and scaling what works.

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to build trust with both candidates and the internal team.

• High agency + high organizational skills — you’ll need to manage multiple searches and deliver an exceptional candidate experience.

Nice-to-Haves

• Prior experience as a sole recruiter or founding talent hire.

• Experience with Ashby.

If this sounds like you, fill out the application below with a bit about yourself and we'll take it from there! If you have any questions, don't hesitate to email us at jobs@primer.com.