Senior Recruiter - GTM

Join Cursor as a Senior Recruiter to build and scale teams driving growth in Sales, Engineering, and Customer Success. Be a strategic partner in defining talent strategy and enhancing the hiring process. Our mission is to automate coding. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering. Our organization is very flat, and our team is small and talent dense. We particularly like people who are truth-seeking, passionate, and creative. We enjoy spirited debate, crazy ideas, and shipping code.

• •Partner directly with GTM leaders to understand business goals, hiring priorities, and organizational needs.
• •Act as a strategic talent advisor, helping leaders define roles, build teams, and make informed hiring decisions.
• •Own the end-to-end recruiting process from kickoff through close, driving urgency and excellence at every stage.
• •Build and execute talent strategies for critical and high-impact searches across the GTM organization.
• •Identify, engage, and close exceptional talent through proactive outreach, referrals, networking, and relationship building.
• •Maintain an exceptionally high hiring bar and serve as a trusted voice in talent assessment and calibration discussions.
• •Bring market insights, competitive intelligence, and talent trends to leaders to inform hiring strategy and workforce planning.
• •Drive an outstanding candidate experience while ensuring every interaction reflects Cursor's values and culture.
• •Partner with hiring managers to continuously improve interview design, hiring rigor, and selection processes.
• •Influence offer strategy, negotiation, and close plans for top candidates.
• •Leverage data and recruiting metrics to identify bottlenecks, improve efficiency, and drive better hiring outcomes.
• •Help build scalable recruiting programs, processes, and best practices as we continue to grow.