# Contract Technical Recruiter

**Company:** [Valon](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/valon)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Recruiting
**Salary:** $94k – $177k/yr
**Skills:** Sourcing, University Recruiting, Talent Operations, Recruiting Tools, Applicant Tracking Systems, AI Tools, Candidate Outreach, Pipeline Management, Event Coordination, Technical Recruiting
**Posted:** 2026-07-06

> Contract Technical Recruiter focused on sourcing technical talent for engineering, product, and data teams plus building university recruiting programs and early-career pipelines. Requires strong organization, high-agency, experience in recruiting coordination or sourcing, and comfort using AI/tools in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do
- Build and maintain high-quality candidate pipelines for technical talent across engineering, product, data, and early-career roles. Identify strong prospects, conduct candidate research, draft personalized outreach, maintain organized pipelines, and surface promising candidates quickly to the recruiting team.
- Support university recruiting programs across target schools and early-career channels. Prepare for career fairs, coordinate campus events, manage candidate follow-up, track student pipelines, and ensure every university touchpoint is polished, organized, and high-impact.
- Coordinate career fairs and recruiting events. Handle attendee tracking, candidate capture, resume review workflows, event materials, post-event follow-up, scheduling, and pipeline organization to turn events into measurable recruiting outcomes.
- Deliver an exceptional candidate experience. Coordinate interviews, manage communications, prepare candidates for each step, and ensure timely, thoughtful, high-trust interactions with no candidates left waiting.
- Partner closely with recruiters and hiring managers to understand role requirements, sourcing priorities, event goals, and candidate profiles. Ensure pipelines align with team needs and that recruiting efforts are clearly communicated.
- Use tools and AI to improve recruiting execution. Leverage AI and recruiting tools for sourcing, candidate research, outreach personalization, event follow-up, pipeline tracking, and workflow automation.
- Keep recruiting systems clean and actionable. Maintain accurate candidate records, pipeline stages, event tracking, outreach activity, and follow-up notes to provide the recruiting team with data and visibility for fast decisions.

## What You Bring
- Experience in sourcing, recruiting coordination, university recruiting, talent operations, or a related recruiting support role.
- Strong interest in technical recruiting, early-career talent, and high-growth hiring environments.
- Excellent organization and attention to detail across scheduling, candidate communication, event logistics, and pipeline management.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities at once without dropping details.
- Strong written communication skills, especially for candidate outreach and follow-up.
- Comfort working with recruiters, hiring managers, candidates, university partners, and cross-functional stakeholders.
- High-agency mindset: notice what needs to be done, take ownership, and follow through without needing every step defined.
- Familiarity with recruiting tools, applicant tracking systems, sourcing platforms, spreadsheets, and AI tools.
- Strong candidate-first instincts and a belief that speed, clarity, and care matter at every stage.
- Curiosity, resilience, and comfort operating in ambiguity as recruiting processes continue to be built and improved.

## Why Valon
- Impact: Every hire accelerates the AI-native OS transforming regulated finance.
- Innovation: AI is the core architecture; recruit for a company where both product and internal operations are AI-native.
- Team: Small, high-talent-density recruiting squad where ideas are pressure-tested and shipped quickly.
- Growth: Scaling beyond mortgage servicing into broader regulated finance; the recruiting function built now will power that expansion.

## Benefits
- Health & well-being: comprehensive medical, dental, & vision benefits.
- Commuter benefits: pre-tax deductions for public transportation, rideshare, and parking.
- Grow together: company-wide orientation, learning & development opportunities, regular review cycles with 360-degree feedback.
- Play together: quarterly budgets for team and company outings (team swag, cooking classes, team dinners).
- Generous time off: flexible PTO, sick days, and 11 company holidays.
- Baby bonding time: 12 weeks fully paid for both birthing and non-birthing parents.

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