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Nuhire is a recruiting agency for the hires that decide what a company becomes. Founder-led searches, run end to end, and full recruiting functions built from scratch, systems included.
Hiring is the most consequential thing a company does early, and the best hires are mutual.
A company becomes whoever it hires first. The earliest people set the bar everyone after them is measured against. Their judgment compounds through the systems they build, the people they hire, and the standards they hold.
And a hire only holds when it is right both ways. The right person for the company must have found the right company in it. One-sided matches come apart, usually inside a year. Nuhire works both sides of every search: what the company needs, and what the candidate is building toward.
Role definition, sourcing, evaluation, and closing, run by the person you meet on the first call. First CTOs, founding engineers, engineering leaders, and the early hires around them, across engineering, product, design, and go-to-market. Engagements run through Nuhire directly, and Keaton is also available as a direct hire for companies building an in-house talent function.
For companies with no recruiting engine at all: the process, the metrics, the interview loops, and the hiring system itself, built end to end and delivered production-ready, so hiring keeps working after the engagement ends.
founding and early engineers, backend, frontend, full-stack, mobile, platform and infrastructure, DevOps and SRE, security, staff and principal ICs, engineering managers, VP Engineering, CTO.
ML and research engineers, ML infrastructure, applied AI, data engineering and data science, forward-deployed engineers.
product managers from founding to CPO, product, UX, UI, brand and visual design, UX research.
founding account executives, AEs, VP Sales, CRO, sales engineers, SDR and BDR, growth, demand generation, product marketing, content, brand, RevOps, customer success.
finance, people and talent, recruiting, legal and compliance, business operations, chief of staff.
first VPs and C-suite across every area above.
The earliest, highest-stakes hires. Not volume, not churn.
We evaluate for what compounds: judgment, ownership, range. Not what scans well on a resume.
We work for the company and the candidate at once. It is slower. It lasts.
Success is the team still standing and raising the bar a year later. Not reqs filled.
30 of 32 offers closed in two quarters at CloudKitchens, a 93.75% acceptance rate, with 95% hiring manager satisfaction, recruiting led across the US, Canada, and Mexico.
Headcount grown from 36 to 62 in six months at Go, including the company's first outside sales team.
A 4.96 recruiter rating on Paraform, across founder-led searches in engineering, product, design, and go-to-market.
Five-plus years of hires, from individual contributors to VP level.
Nuhire was founded by Keaton Williams, who has spent the last half-decade building high-performing teams for startups across every area of the org, from founding engineers and ML infrastructure to the go-to-market hires that turn a product into a company. He has run the hardest searches in venture-backed tech and closed them full-cycle: sourcing, evaluation, and offer, on both sides of the table. Based in New York.
Hiring for a role that matters, or building a recruiting function from zero?