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ZapierZapierUnited States

Lead Technical Recruiter

Leads technical recruiting strategy for complex, department-wide hiring needs while advising senior leaders, improving recruiting systems, and driving AI-enabled process innovation. The role requires senior full-cycle technical recruiting experience, strong operational judgment, and the ability to mentor peers and influence stakeholders.

144k – 216k/yr
Remote5+ YOERecruiting

About the role

About You

  • Significant, senior-level full-cycle technical recruiting experience, with ownership of hiring strategy beyond individual requisitions or for complex pipelines across disciplines such as Applied AI, software engineering, infrastructure, and security.
  • Strategic operational and systems thinking, including compensation analysis, competitive positioning, organization-level market mapping, and scalable process design.
  • Proven ability to build trust with senior leaders and recruiting peers, influence complex hiring decisions, and align stakeholders around recommendations.
  • High fluency with AI tools and using AI as a core part of daily work.
  • Ability to drive results through direct ownership, delegation, mentoring, coaching, and stakeholder accountability.
  • Ability to make data-informed recommendations while adapting to additional context and ideas.
  • Resourcefulness and comfort operating with ambiguity, creating practical plans, and pivoting quickly.
  • Commitment to diversity hiring and inclusive interview practices, including building diverse talent pools and shaping hiring processes at the team or department level.

Responsibilities

  • Advise hiring managers, directors, and executives on talent strategy and complex technical hiring decisions.
  • Drive talent intelligence and market mapping to inform acquisition strategy for an entire department or vertical.
  • Use AI to design repeatable workflows, improve recruiting outputs, and increase team efficiency.
  • Build forward-looking recruiting plans, including compensation analysis and competitive positioning recommendations.
  • Partner across recruiting, operations, and hiring teams to solve process bottlenecks and improve hiring effectiveness.
  • Lead AI transformation, process improvement, and high-impact projects that improve candidate experience, stakeholder satisfaction, and recruiting systems at scale.
  • Mentor teammates through hands-on problem-solving and help raise the overall capability of the technical recruiting team.
  • Lead talent brand initiatives for the assigned vertical, including events, platform presence, and targeted attraction campaigns aligned with the company’s employee value proposition.

Skills

Technical Recruitingtalent strategyartificial intelligencecompensation analysismarket mappingcompetitive positioningtalent intelligenceProcess ImprovementStakeholder Managementdiversity hiring

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