Julia Arpag is a tech recruiter who helps mission-driven SaaS companies build elite engineering teams through values-based hiring. She is the founder and CEO of Aligned Recruitment.
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Julia Arpag is the founder of Aligned Recruitment, a tech recruiting firm built on a people-first approach to scaling teams. She partners with high-growth SaaS startups that value intentional living, authenticity in business, and purpose-driven hiring.
Since launching in 2023, Julia has led the company to generate seven figures in revenue - all without outside funding. Profitable from day one, Aligned Recruitment stands out in a noisy industry by relying on relationships, not cold calls, and by aligning each hire with company values, not just job specs.
Her mission is simple: help world-changing founders build world-class teams.
As CEO of Aligned Recruitment, Julia Arpag is a trusted partner to venture-backed and bootstrapped founders alike. Her clients aren’t just hiring engineers - they’re building company culture from the ground up. Julia’s role is to make sure they hire with intention.
She brings a perspective rooted in self-trust and clarity. For Julia, it’s not just about who you hire, but why and how those choices ripple through culture, retention, and growth. She speaks often about the cost of misaligned hiring and the importance of long-term thinking.
Alongside client work, she also invests a portion of her profits into foster and adoptive care ministries, reflecting a business model built on stewardship.
Aligned Recruitment isn’t Julia’s first success, but it’s the one that feels most like home. The firm grew quickly thanks to a strong referral base, reputation for quality, and Julia’s storytelling-driven approach to employer branding.
Her vision is clear:
Julia works closely with clients to clarify their culture before the first resume is sent. The result is a process that feels more like matchmaking than recruiting.
As a speaker and storyteller, Julia Arpag is known for her transparency and optimism. She speaks to audiences about career transitions, motherhood and entrepreneurship, and what it means to live with alignment across work and life.
Whether it’s inside a mastermind or on a podcast mic, she brings clarity, energy, and challenge. Her message resonates with women in leadership, early-stage founders, and anyone navigating personal growth through entrepreneurship.
Julia’s business philosophy is an extension of her life. She and her husband are foster parents, and their home is a place where the values she brings to recruiting - trust, resilience, and compassion - are lived out daily.
She often speaks of her business as a way to serve her family, not the other way around. For Julia, work-life balance isn’t about equal time - it’s about aligned priorities.
Her story is one of life design: building a career that supports a calling, not just a bottom line.
