Senior Technical Recruiter
Owns full-cycle recruiting for critical technical roles, partnering with hiring managers to source, assess, and close exceptional talent. Requires 7+ years of recruiting experience, strong technical sourcing judgment, and the ability to operate independently in a fast-moving technology startup.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own full-cycle recruiting for multiple technical searches, from intake through offer negotiation and close.
- Partner with hiring managers to define role requirements, success profiles, interview strategies, and talent-market positioning.
- Develop creative, data-driven sourcing strategies and build pipelines for difficult-to-fill technical roles.
- Source directly across multiple channels and create personalized candidate outreach.
- Build understanding of technical roles, teams, and technologies to assess and communicate effectively with candidates.
- Advise hiring managers with market intelligence, candidate feedback, and search-strategy recommendations.
- Deliver a high-touch candidate experience with clear communication, follow-through, and thoughtful closing.
- Support rigorous, efficient, and consistent interview processes.
- Identify bottlenecks and adjust sourcing, process, or candidate positioning to keep searches moving.
- Maintain accurate candidate data, pipeline visibility, and recruiting activity in the ATS.
- Improve recruiting processes, tools, and practices as the company scales.
Requirements
- 7+ years of recruiting experience, including significant technical recruiting experience.
- Proven full-cycle recruiting experience in a startup or high-growth technology environment.
- Experience recruiting for engineering, infrastructure, AI/ML, data, security, or other highly technical functions.
- Strong technical sourcing skills and the ability to engage highly sought-after talent.
- Ability to understand complex technical roles and translate requirements into recruiting strategies.
- Strong recruiting judgment and calibration skills.
- Ability to independently manage multiple searches with minimal direction.
- Excellent organization and prioritization skills.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- Curiosity, tenacity, proactivity, integrity, and discretion.
Nice-to-Haves
- Recruiting experience for AI/ML, data, infrastructure, security, or other highly technical teams.
- Experience recruiting in a Series A–C startup environment.
- Experience building sourcing strategies or recruiting programs from the ground up.
- Experience using recruiting data and metrics to improve search outcomes.
- Experience building inclusive hiring practices and expanding access to diverse talent.
Compensation and Benefits
- Compensation and benefits information is not provided.
Skills
Technical Recruiting, Full-Cycle Recruiting, Sourcing, Candidate Outreach, Talent Pipelines, AI/ML, Data Recruiting, Infrastructure Recruiting, Security Recruiting, Applicant Tracking Systems, Recruiting Metrics, Interview Strategy
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