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 communication, interpersonal, and relationship-building skills

• Excitement about early stage and everything that comes along with that: process building, being scrappy, getting your hands dirty (we do not have recruiting coordinators or sourcers)

What will make you stand out:

• Subject matter expertise in GTM recruiting

• Recruiting experience at a Seed round through Series B company

• Experience building sourcing agents with Claude Code

• Experience understanding and pitching stock options to potential employees

• Previous experience with Ashby

• A mix of agency and in house experience

• Prior experience and a network of talent in New York City

• Prior experience and a network of talent within the Climate Tech space

• Interest in getting more exposure and occasionally helping out on the People Operations side of the team, especially with onboarding

Our anticipated US base salary compensation range for this role is $90,000-$140,000 plus competitive benefits package, which includes equity, 401(k), paid time off, paid parental leave, and comprehensive health benefits. Actual compensation will vary depending on factors such as work location as well as additional factors such as a candidate’s qualifications, skills, experience, competencies, and relevant education. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.

How we work:

• Impact: We only focus on things that move the needle

• Drive: We are driven by the role we play in connecting climate change to financial risk

• Ownership: This is our company and we act accordingly

• Urgency: We move quickly because the world depends on it

• Resilience: We have a growth mindset in all that we do

What we offer:

• Competitive salary commensurate with experience

• Ownership interest in the company via Employee Stock Option Plan

• Hybrid Schedule with in-office work days on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday

• 15 vacation days along with 8 statutory company holidays, 5 days for winter break office closure, and 10 sick days

• Healthcare monthly premium covered at 100% for employee or a significant contribution for family plans

• Vision and dental benefits with partial employee contribution

• 12 weeks of paid parental leave

• Access to One Medical, Teledoc, HealthAdvocate, Kindbody, and Talkspace

• Company 401k program

• Commuter benefits

• Life Insurance

• Tech startup environment

• Weekly team meals and an office stocked with coffee and snacks

• Working on the world’s biggest issue with other passionate professionals

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.


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