Senior Recruiter

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting for assigned roles, from intake through offer close.
• Drive outbound sourcing for priority searches, including target company mapping, candidate research, outreach, follow-ups, and pipeline conversion.
• Build high-quality candidate pipelines through sourcing, referrals, events, networks, and targeted outreach campaigns.
• Partner with hiring managers to define role requirements, calibrate on talent bar, build search strategies, and keep searches moving with urgency.
• Create thoughtful candidate outreach that clearly communicates Parallel’s mission, technology, and opportunity.
• Screen candidates for role fit, motivation, technical alignment, compensation expectations, and likelihood to close.
• Run structured recruiting processes, including interview planning, feedback collection, debriefs, and offer support.
• Use Greenhouse, Noon.ai, LinkedIn Recruiter, and other recruiting tools to manage pipeline, improve workflows, and increase recruiting visibility.
• Identify opportunities to automate or streamline repetitive recruiting tasks while maintaining a high-quality candidate experience.
• Help improve recruiting practices across sourcing, scorecards, hiring manager alignment, reporting, candidate communication, and interview process.
• Represent Parallel in the market with credibility, professionalism, and strong judgment.

What Success Looks Like

• In 30 Days: Independently owning hiring manager relationships for assigned searches, including intake, calibration, pipeline updates, sourcing strategy, and next steps.
• In 60 Days: Filled at least one role or moved a priority search to final-stage candidates, while showing measurable sourcing output across outbound activity, response rates, qualified screens, and onsite conversions.
• In 90 Days: Filled 1-2 critical roles while also providing at least 1 automation to the recruiting process.

Requirements

• 5+ years of recruiting experience, with meaningful ownership of full-cycle recruiting.
• Strong outbound sourcing experience, including target company mapping, LinkedIn Recruiter, candidate research, outreach campaigns, and passive candidate engagement.
• Experience recruiting technical talent in a hard-tech or complex environment.
• Experience working as an internal recruiter while partnering directly with hiring managers to define roles, calibrate talent, and manage searches.
• Experience using modern recruiting tools (such as Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, Noon.ai or similar platforms).
• Comfortable operating in a startup environment with changing priorities, lean resources, and high expectations.
• High ownership mindset with the ability to drive work forward independently.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience recruiting for a venture-backed startup or high-growth technical company.
• Comfort using AI, automation, and recruiting technology to improve sourcing, workflow efficiency, candidate engagement, reporting, and process quality.
• Experience improving recruiting workflows, reporting, candidate communications, interview processes, or hiring manager enablement.
• Strong interest in transportation, robotics, autonomy, climate technology, infrastructure, or industrial innovation.