Published July 1, 2025.

About the Recurse Center

Our mission is to transform lives by helping people direct themselves. We do this by running retreats where curious programmers come to recharge and grow. Programmers of all stripes work alongside each other for 6 or 12 weeks of self-directed growth, exploration, and programming.

Since 2011, more than 2,800 people from nearly 200 cities around the globe have participated in our retreats. People routinely describe their time here as among the most productive, educational, and transformative periods of their lives.

Our retreats take place both in-person at our hub in Brooklyn and online, with most participants spending at least some of their batches in person. After their retreats, participants join our lifelong alumni community.

Our recruiting agency supports all of our operations and is fully integrated with our retreat. We recruit for a range of companies on a contingency basis, with a focus on US-based early-stage startups and technology-focused finance firms. These companies pay us a referral fee when they hire our candidates. Our recruiting business provides lifelong career services to Recursers, and allows us to keep our retreats free to all participants.

The retreat is our recruiting advantage: We get to know our alums over the course of months and years, which lets us get under their resumes to find great matches employers otherwise wouldn't for their open roles.

What you’ll do

As a Career Facilitator, you’ll focus on full-cycle recruiting. But unlike traditional agencies, we only source candidates from our own community. Instead of emailing strangers, you’ll:

• Make the retreat our recruiting advantage. What distinguishes us as recruiters are the wonderful people in our community, and our relationships with and knowledge of them. You’ll get to know Recursers and help them through every part of their job searches.
• Delight and serve our partner companies. You’ll understand their hiring needs, find Recursers for their open roles, organize hiring events, onboard new companies, and solicit and integrate feedback about how we can best serve them.
• Help build an enduring business. In addition to making great matches, you’ll help improve how we do recruiting. This includes refining our internal processes, systems, and tools, so that we can better support Recursers, serve companies, and scale our efforts sustainably.

Although the primary focus of this job is recruiting, we view RC as an integrated whole, and all of us sometimes jump in and help with other parts of the company. Working at RC requires being adaptable and happy to contribute in whatever ways best support the business and team.

A collaborative environment with supportive colleagues

We work hard to foster a fast-paced culture that’s collaborative, trusting, and thoughtful. Here are some things you’ll find working at RC:

• Clear company-wide goals, set as a team. You’ll have an understanding of what we’re trying to accomplish together and why.
• Our belief in self-direction isn’t only for Recursers, it also influences how we approach our own work. At RC, you’ll have the freedom and the responsibility to decide how to structure your time and work.
• Weekly one-on-ones to give and receive regular feedback and help you work through challenges and be as effective as possible with your work.
• Organizational transparency. You will have access to whatever information about RC you want, from how much money we made last month to our bank balance.
• A culture of direct, but kind and constructive feedback. This helps us resolve disagreements quickly and work together more effectively.