Superposition for Series A Startups
The key hires that will define your next 18 months, without the 30% retained fee.
Series A is when the hiring bill comes due
- Retained recruiters.
- LinkedIn Recruiter seats.
- Keyword-matched resumes.
- Templated InMails.
At Series A, you're hiring your Head of Engineering, Head of Sales, senior individual contributors, and maybe a first finance or ops leader. Each one is a multi-month search at $30K–$60K if you use retained recruiters.
Meanwhile, you're also hiring 10+ engineers and designers to hit the growth milestones you raised against. If you run every search through retained search or traditional agencies, you'll burn a seven-figure hiring bill in year one.
You need a sourcing system that works for both high-volume individual-contributor hiring and lower-volume leadership searches.
How Superposition works for Series A
Leadership + IC in one system
Same agent, same intake quality, for both Head-of roles and senior engineer roles.
Stage-matched leaders
We source leaders who've operated at your stage, not VPs from 500-person orgs who need a team to be effective.
No retained fees
$500/agent/month. Keep the $30K+ retained fee for milestones, not sourcing.
Scales with open reqs
Spin up as many parallel agents as you have open roles. Sourcing capacity scales with you.
Questions.
Answered.
One agent per role, so as many as your interview capacity supports. Most Series A teams run three to five and find scheduling, not sourcing, becomes the bottleneck.
Often yes, and the two work together. The recruiter owns the bar, the loop and closing; the agent covers sourcing, outreach, screening and scheduling across every role.
An agency at 25 percent of first-year compensation on four searches is a large line item. The agent is a flat monthly fee per search plus 15 percent of base on a hire.
Yes. Sales, marketing, product, finance and operations searches run the same way, reading different sources for each.
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AI recruiting for Series B startups
The year you hire more people than in the previous three combined.
Hire a Founding Product Manager
An operator who owns roadmap, research, and launches, not a process manager.
Hire the leaders who'll define your Series A.
Stop paying retained fees for shortlists you could have filtered yourself.