Forum Ventures is the leading early-stage fund, accelerator, and venture studio for B2B SaaS startups across North America. Founded in 2014, we’re on a mission to make the startup journey easier, more accessible, and more successful for early-stage founders. We provide funding, high-touch programming, 1:1 support,  investor introductions, and an active SaaS community to support founders through every step of their building journey.

Forum’s AI Studio brings together ambitious people, brilliant ideas, and capital to build the best B2B SaaS businesses in the world, from 0 to 1. We provide founders with access to an experienced operating team, from business design, product design, and engineering to fundraising support. Our model is designed to help Founders move faster, develop better insights, and build companies that have a higher success rate than startups built in any other way.

As a Recruitment Lead for our venture studio, you’ll have the unique opportunity to build founding teams, from Founder/CEO to initial hires, and also have the opportunity to work on internal roles at Forum Ventures. This role is ideal for a dynamic individual who cares deeply about attracting, finding, and enabling bold and ambitious people to build the best B2B SaaS companies. If you’ve spent time in executive search, recruited in early-stage startups, and have technical recruitment experience, we’d love to hear from you.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Recruiting world-class Founders to build with our venture studio

• Collaborating with founders and studio team members to understand recruiting needs, crafting compelling job postings, and developing effective sourcing strategies.

• Managing and streamlining inbound applications to ensure a smooth candidate experience.

• Proactively sourcing top talent through various channels, including direct outreach and networking, to build strong candidate pipelines.

• Conducting initial screenings to evaluate candidates’ skills, experience, and values.

• Promoting Forum Ventures and Studio Companies' brand across online platforms to attract high-caliber talent.

• Maintaining accurate and up-to-date candidate records in our ATS, ensuring seamless tracking and reporting.

• Creating and managing a robust talent pipeline to anticipate and meet future hiring needs.

• Continuously iterate on recruitment processes to minimize bias, fostering an inclusive and equitable hiring environment.

About You:

• Track record in full-cycle recruitment, preferably a combination of agency, executive search, and growing SaaS startups.

• Demonstrated success in technical recruiting.

• A knack for relationship building and excellent communication skills. You’ll be the face of Forum for Candidates, Founders/CEOs, and other players in the ecosystem.

• You can operate well without the whole picture. 

• A demonstrated passion for startups with an empathy for the founder journey.

• Strong alignment with our values. Learn about them here!

• Ability to commute to our Toronto office for in-person collaborative days once a month.

Bonus Points:

• Relationships in Venture Capital and tech, and/or a willingness to network and to build up your personal brand in the industry.

What we offer:

• A salary range of $100,000 - $110,000 CAD

• Carried interest in the fund.

• Generous benefits package from day 1.

• Unlimited PTO. We recommend all team members take a minimum of 3 weeks per year on top of our biannual company-wide shutdowns.

• The equipment and resources you’ll need to be set up for success working remotely. 

• Team offsites to keep you connected to your coworkers.
  
  

The Team You’ll Be Joining:

Forum was started from a place of helpfulness, with the mission to make the B2B SaaS journey easier, more accessible and successful for early-stage founders. That extends to the people we work with. When you join Forum, you’ll join a respectful, inclusive team that you can trust, ready to collaborate and support you at any given moment. We are unapologetically ourselves, self-aware and act with complete honesty and integrity. We’re open to learning, to different and new ideas, to feedback, and are constantly looking to improve. We work hard and smart and spend the large majority of our time feeling challenged and inspired by each other. 

Forum Venture recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status' as required by applicable law. Our dedication to promoting diversity, multiculturalism, equity and inclusion is more than a commitment – it is the foundation of what we do. We strongly encourage people from ALL backgrounds to apply to this position.