# Lead Technical Recruiter

**Company:** [Zapier](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/zapier)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Recruiting
**Salary:** $144k – $216k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Technical Recruiting, talent strategy, artificial intelligence, compensation analysis, market mapping, competitive positioning, talent intelligence, Process Improvement, Stakeholder Management, diversity hiring
**Posted:** 2026-08-05

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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