Who We Are:
Sundog Talent is a boutique recruiting firm founded by experienced in-house recruiters from Stripe, Meta, Amazon and high-growth startups. Our team combines deep technical recruiting expertise with firsthand experience building hiring functions inside some of the world’s most ambitious companies.
We’re not just recruiters; we’re builders, operators, and strategic advisors who know what it takes to attract and close top talent in competitive markets.
Allison Mitchell
britta dance
Founder & Recruiter
Lead Recruiter
Lead Recruiter
Amber Auslander
Gabrielle Desouza
Talent Sourcer
TALENT SOURCER
AME Witt
- Allergic to status quo recruiting.
- Insatiably curious, constantly turning side obsessions into sharper problem solving.
- Diversity isn’t a checkbox, it’s how better products get built.
- Serious about our work. Never about ourselves.
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What We Do:
We partner with seed- to growth-stage tech companies to hire top talent and build recruiting functions that actually work. Beyond filling hard-to-hire roles, we collaborate with founders and hiring managers on their most pressing needs. Often that means advising on the minimum viable recruiting function, the right systems for candidate experience, employer brand, and speed, without over-engineering.
From your first engineer to your next VP, we deliver high-caliber candidates while building the foundation to scale. ATS setup, sourcing pipelines, interviewer training, employer branding; we help startups hire like top-tier tech companies from day one.
Why We Do It:
We’re builders at heart. We love working with top operators, solving complex problems, and having a real impact.For us, recruiting is people-first: creating the best candidate experience while acting as trusted advisors to founders and hiring teams.
We’re energized by strategy, creativity, and efficiency, and nothing pains us more than a clunky, manual hiring process. We’d rather work fast, keep the bar high, and build recruiting functions that actually make founders’ lives easier. No politics, no fluff, just smart problem-solving and a good dose of humor along the way.