About Base

Base is building the foundation of American power. The grid is the largest, most complex machine in the world. Yet it’s aging, struggling to keep up with today’s demand, and is unprepared for our electrified future.

Base is modernizing the grid as the first engineering-led, technology-driven power company. We’re deploying a nationwide network of distributed batteries that strengthens critical infrastructure and saves Americans money.

Our team of engineers, operators, creatives, technicians, and electricians design and deploy systems at speed. If you want to tackle the problem that will define this century and shape the future of American energy, now is the time. Join us.

About the Role

As a Frontline Recruiter at Base, you’ll own hiring for the people who power our operations every day: electricians, warehouse associates, drivers, and field employees across our facilities. These hires are the backbone of Base, ensuring our technology and products are delivered, installed, and supported at the highest level.

This is an opportunity to help scale a mission-critical workforce from the ground up. We’re looking for someone who has built frontline and skilled-trades teams in high-growth environments and thrives in the fast pace of early-stage startups. This is an in-person role based in Austin, TX.

What You’ll Do

• Own Full-Cycle Recruiting: Lead end-to-end hiring for frontline roles, from job posting to offer close.

• Source & Engage Talent: Proactively identify and attract top frontline talent through creative sourcing channels, job boards, trade school partnerships, and unconventional methods (e.g., grassroots outreach, community events, or on-the-ground networking).

• Partner with Hiring Teams: Collaborate closely with hiring managers to define role requirements, ideal candidate attributes, interview processes, and hiring goals.

• Sell the Opportunity: Clearly communicate Base’s mission, culture, and career growth opportunities to candidates at all levels.

• Optimize Recruiting Process: Build scalable, repeatable recruiting processes tailored to high-volume, frontline hiring that deliver speed and quality.

• Champion Candidate Experience: Ensure every candidate, hired or not, leaves with a positive impression of Base.

• Lay the Foundation: Contribute to recruiting playbooks, tools, and metrics to scale Base’s frontline hiring engine.

What You’ll Bring

• 3+ years of recruiting experience, with a strong focus on frontline, skilled trades, or high-volume hiring (electricians, drivers, warehouse, field service).

• Experience recruiting at an early-stage, high-growth company or in dynamic, operationally complex industries.

• Proven success sourcing and closing candidates in competitive local markets, with a scrappy, resourceful approach to uncovering talent through both traditional and unconventional channels.

• Excellent communicator with a proven ability to build trust and relationships across candidates, hiring managers, and community partners.

• Hands-on, resourceful, and process-oriented mindset; you thrive in environments where you’re building from scratch.

Preferred Skills

• Experience developing pipelines through workforce programs, trade schools, or community organizations.

• Comfort with recruiting metrics, high-volume pipelines, and ATS tools.

• Passion for energy, sustainability, or helping build teams that keep critical infrastructure running.

• Basic electrical knowledge is a plus, but not required.

How You’ll Win

• Momentum is Everything: Time kills deals. Handle follow-ups with urgency.

• Seek Signs of Excellence: Early outperformance often signals outlier candidates.

• Don’t Hire 9s: Even when bandwidth is tight, we resist the temptation.

• Referrals Rock: Great people know great people; seek out our current employees for referrals.

• The Best People Aren’t Looking: We must actively pursue them through outbound strategies.

• Talent Density: Headcount is not the goal–high revenue per employee is.

• Protect the Team’s Time: Move quickly to identify poor fits so we can focus on the candidates most likely to succeed at Base.

Our Values

We’re building a winning culture and we’re looking for people who are up for the challenge. Here’s what we expect from day one:

• In-Person Only: We work full-time in the office. No hybrid. No remote.

• Challenge the Status Quo: Question assumptions. Fix broken systems. Principles > rules.

• Move Fast: Focus on what matters, act quickly, and learn by doing.

• Give & Get Feedback: Be direct, be humble. Challenge ideas–including your own.

• Own the Outcome: Take full responsibility. Deliver results. No excuses.

• Act Like an Owner: Be resourceful, mindful of impact, and committed to the business.

• Be Decisive: Drive clarity. Make bold calls with imperfect info.

• Bring the Intensity: This is not a 9-to-5. We're building something hard which requires real commitment.