Open role

One seat open right now.

We hire deliberately, one person at a time, into roles that matter to how the firm runs. This is the one we are filling today.

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Recruiter / Coordinator

Columbus, OH / Central Ohio Full-time US-based

A front-line recruiter who also runs candidate coordination into client interviews. You find and screen the people, you have the first real conversation with them, and then you carry them cleanly through to the interview chair across the table from our client. You are the steady hand a candidate remembers and the reason a search never goes quiet.

Where this role lives in STACK

This seat lives mostly in Source and Tempo, finding the right people and keeping every search moving, with a hand in Assess. You will learn the full method, the same framework behind the book shipping in 2026.

What you’ll do

Source and screen candidates for active small-business searches across trades, manufacturing, real estate, and professional roles.
Run first conversations with candidates: understand their why, confirm fit, set honest expectations.
Coordinate candidates into client interviews, from scheduling and prep through logistics and follow-up.
Keep every search moving. Timely responses, clear status updates, nothing going cold (the Tempo work).
Maintain clean candidate records in the ATS so every search stays organized and auditable.

What you’ll bring

Some recruiting, staffing, sourcing, or high-touch coordination experience. Full-cycle exposure is a plus, not a requirement.
Genuinely strong writing and conversation. You set the tone for the candidate experience.
Organization and follow-through while several searches run at once.
Comfort with an ATS and scheduling tools, and the appetite to learn the STACK Method properly.
An ownership mindset. When a pipeline stalls, you change your day. You do not wait to be told.

What we offer

Full ownership of the candidate relationship. Not scheduling logistics bolted onto someone else’s search. The candidate is yours to carry.

An early seat in a firm being built on purpose. Real growth as the book grows, and a hand in shaping how the work gets done.

A method, not a scramble. Direct work with the founder and the STACK Method, the framework behind a forthcoming book on small-business hiring.

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Why work here

A small firm with real leverage.

Recruiting can be a churn-and-burn business. We built the opposite of that, and it shows in the work you would actually do here.

Recruiting done the right way

One client per competitive lane. A flat monthly fee instead of pressure to push the quickest placement. You advocate for the candidate, because the model lets you.

You own the relationship

You are not a cog in a talent-acquisition machine. You carry candidates end to end and you see the result of your own work.

A method behind the work

Every search runs on the STACK Method: Source, Tempo, Assess, Close, Keep. You learn a real framework, not just a process someone made up last quarter.

Built to last

Twenty-five years of recruiting behind the firm, a book shipping in 2026, and a plan that runs in years rather than quarters.

If the role above isn’t the one

We care about the future more than the past.

If you are interested in building this firm with us, the open role is not the only door in. Tell us where you want to go, not just where you have been. Email Jay directly with a short note covering three things.

What you’re interested in

The work that actually pulls you in. What you want to be doing a year from now.

What you need

Be straight with us. Pay, schedule, flexibility, growth, whatever makes a role worth your time.

What you bring to the table

The thing you are good at that we would be lucky to have. Specific beats polished.

Email Jay directly ↗ Goes straight to Jay Metcalf, not an inbox no one reads.