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Strategic Talent Lead

Leads and transforms the talent acquisition function through full-cycle recruiting, strategic sourcing, recruiting technology ownership, and AI-enabled workflow automation. The role partners with hiring managers and leadership and requires at least six years of technology recruiting experience, including go-to-market hiring.

About the job

Responsibilities

  • Own full-cycle recruiting across functions from intake through close, maintaining high standards for quality, speed, and candidate experience.
  • Develop customized sourcing strategies using talent mapping, competitive intelligence, community sourcing, and warm-pipeline development.
  • Advise hiring managers and senior leaders on role design, competencies, interview architecture, and offer strategy.
  • Optimize Greenhouse for data integrity, pipeline visibility, and reporting accuracy.
  • Own the recruiting technology ecosystem and guide future platform migrations.
  • Audit recruiting workflows and build AI-enabled automations to reduce manual work.
  • Use AI tools to draft job descriptions, prepare interview kits, synthesize feedback, develop offer comparisons, and generate pipeline analytics.
  • Maintain a process for evaluating recruiting technology and presenting recommendations to leadership.
  • Provide structured intake, proactive communication, pipeline updates, and feedback loops for hiring teams.
  • Present recruiting data and recommendations to senior leaders.
  • Coach hiring managers on interviewing, bias mitigation, and rigorous decision-making.
  • Build and maintain recruiting dashboards and use data to identify bottlenecks, test hypotheses, and improve resource allocation.
  • Share process improvements, lessons learned, and market intelligence with the team.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of talent acquisition experience in fast-paced technology environments.
  • Proven full-cycle recruiting experience across an organization.
  • Experience recruiting for go-to-market roles.
  • AI-native mindset with the ability to build automations and intelligent workflows.
  • Experience running high-velocity, outbound-focused recruiting operations, including cold outreach and complex leadership searches.
  • Systems-thinking approach and ownership of the candidate journey, recruiting systems, and data.
  • Ability to act as a strategic partner to senior leadership and challenge assumptions constructively.
  • Strong interest in AI research and the broader technology ecosystem.
  • Strong judgment, communication, critical thinking, and execution skills.

Compensation and Benefits

  • Annual salary range: $125,000–$145,000, with final compensation based on experience, skills, certifications, and work location.
  • Equity stock options for full-time employees.
  • Flexible vacation.
  • Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
  • 401(k) and FSA.

Skills

Talent Acquisition, Full-Cycle Recruiting, Greenhouse, Recruiting Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Sourcing, Talent Mapping, Competitive Intelligence, Pipeline Analytics, Recruiting Dashboards, Interview Architecture, Candidate Experience, Go-To-Market Recruiting, Data Integrity, Workflow Automation

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