Freshpaint is hiring a Candidate & Employee Experience Specialist to build and scale a seamless experience from first candidate interaction through employee onboarding. You will own the hiring and onboarding engine, designing systems to ensure every touchpoint reflects our company standards.

What You'll Do

Own the end-to-end candidate experience from application through offer acceptance.
Coordinate and schedule interviews, ensuring clear and timely communication throughout the process.
Identify friction in the hiring process and proactively improve it.
Maintain clean, accurate ATS data and drive scorecard completion in Ashby.
Partner with recruiters and hiring managers to keep hiring processes organized and moving quickly.
Design and operate a structured onboarding experience that helps new hires ramp quickly.
Continuously improve the candidate and onboarding experience based on feedback and operational insights.
Ensure every interaction with Freshpaint feels thoughtful, organized, and high-ownership.

What We're Looking For

Extreme proficiency in Ashby.
Highly organized and detail-oriented.
Strong bias for action and high attention to detail.
Systems mindset for operational work.
Comfortable working across recruiting, hiring managers, and people operations teams.
Think like an owner, run toward problems, and take initiative to fix what isn't working.

Nice to Have

Experience designing or improving employee onboarding programs.
Experience working closely with People Ops or HR teams on new hire onboarding.
Prior experience supporting hiring across both technical and GTM roles.
Experience with Juicebox and Justworks.
Experience at an early stage or high growth SaaS startup.
Strong candidate communication or employer brand instincts.

Technical Stack

Ashby

Team & Environment

This role reports to the Lead Talent Partner. You’ll be joining a team that thrives in fast-moving environments, communicates clearly under pressure, and instinctively improves systems rather than simply executing tasks. We care deeply about how candidates and new hires experience a company and take pride in creating processes that feel thoughtful, seamless, and well run.

Benefits & Compensation

Competitive pay + generous equity with a 10-year exercise window.
Fully remote (U.S. only) with a $150/month coworking stipend.
Half-day Fridays, every Friday.
Unlimited PTO—with a required 2-week minimum.
Top-tier health, dental & vision (100% covered for you, 80% for dependents).
2 “Treat Yourself” days a year—$100 and a day off.
Generous parental leave.
Epic offsites twice a year.