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GleanGleanMountain View, CA

Technical Recruiter

The Technical Recruiter will lead full-cycle recruiting for technical teams, partnering with hiring leaders on search strategy, talent markets, candidate evaluation, and closing. The role requires 5+ years of technical recruiting experience, strong sourcing and advisory skills, and comfort using data and AI to improve recruiting.

135k – 175k/yr
Hybrid5+ YOERecruiting

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Partner with hiring managers and technical leaders to understand business goals, team structures, role requirements, and success capabilities.
  • Develop and execute recruiting strategies for technical searches across engineering, product, machine learning, infrastructure, security, data, technical program management, and related functions.
  • Own the full recruiting lifecycle, from intake and market mapping through sourcing, assessment, closing, and onboarding handoff.
  • Build pipelines of active and passive candidates through research, outreach, referrals, communities, events, and creative sourcing channels.
  • Advise on talent markets, compensation expectations, competitive dynamics, candidate motivations, and search tradeoffs.
  • Define candidate profiles, calibrate interview processes, improve signal quality, and maintain a consistent hiring bar.
  • Create a timely, transparent, inclusive, and compelling candidate experience.
  • Use recruiting data and market intelligence to identify risks, improve funnel health, prioritize work, and communicate recommendations.
  • Maintain accurate recruiting systems and documentation.
  • Use AI tools and automation to improve research, sourcing, communication, workflow efficiency, and decision quality while preserving human judgment.
  • Contribute to recruiting programs, employer brand initiatives, talent communities, and operating mechanisms.
  • Share knowledge, mentor teammates, and turn effective practices into scalable team standards.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, ideally in a high-growth technology company or similarly complex environment.
  • Track record of recruiting and closing technical talent across areas such as software engineering, machine learning, infrastructure, security, data, product, or technical leadership.
  • Ability to build trust with experienced hiring managers, challenge assumptions respectfully, and clarify ambiguous searches.
  • Strong sourcing and research skills, including targeted talent mapping and passive-candidate engagement.
  • Strong candidate judgment, critical thinking, analytical ability, and decision-making.
  • Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
  • Ability to use data to understand recruiting performance and identify patterns.
  • Ownership, adaptability, curiosity, and follow-through in changing and ambiguous environments.
  • Commitment to thoughtful and inclusive candidate experiences.
  • Interest in using AI to improve recruiting.
  • Collaborative approach to improving recruiting systems, practices, and team experience.

Compensation & Benefits

  • Base salary range: $135,000–$175,000 annually.
  • Compensation may vary based on location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
  • Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits.
  • Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
  • Generous time off and 401(k) contribution opportunities.
  • Home office improvement stipend.
  • Annual education and wellness stipends.
  • Company events and healthy lunches.

Skills

Technical RecruitingFull-Cycle Recruitingtalent sourcingtalent mappingcandidate assessmentmarket intelligencerecruiting analyticsapplicant tracking systemsAI Toolsemployer branding

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