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Director, Technical Recruiting

Leads technical recruiting for Product, Engineering, IT, and Security teams, scaling the function with data-driven processes, AI tools, and team development to support aggressive company growth. Requires 10+ years in high-growth talent acquisition, managing managers, and building scalable systems.

192k – 239kSan Francisco, CARecruitingOnsite10+ YOE

About the role

What You'll Be Working On

  • Lead talent acquisition across Product, Engineering, IT, and Security, aligning hiring roadmaps with business priorities, growth plans, and operational realities.
  • Build and scale a technical recruiting team that operates with speed, efficiency, judgment, and consistency — setting the standard for responsiveness and execution quality.
  • Mentor and develop recruiting managers, growing leadership depth within the team and building the next tier of recruiting leaders.
  • Serve as a strategic partner to engineering executives and hiring managers, driving role clarity, calibration, and shared accountability for hiring outcomes.
  • Evolve the recruiting model to balance velocity with consistency — moving from reactive execution to proactive, predictable hiring.
  • Strengthen intake, workflow, and decision-making processes that eliminate bottlenecks and improve stakeholder and candidate experience.
  • Translate engineering and product demand into structured hiring plans, proactively identifying talent gaps, timing risks, and capacity constraints.
  • Use data and analytics to diagnose funnel performance, forecast risks, and drive continuous improvement across every stage of the recruiting cycle.
  • Adopt AI, automation, and modern recruitment tools to increase efficiency, improve signal quality, and free the team to focus on high-judgment work.
  • Navigate the unique challenges of hiring across AI infrastructure, cloud engineering, platform, and security disciplines — balancing speed with rigor.

What You'll Bring to the Team

  • 10+ years of experience in talent acquisition, including building and scaling technical recruiting functions in high-growth environments.
  • Led talent acquisition across engineering and product functions, and ideally IT or security recruiting — experience across more than one of these areas is expected.
  • Use data and analytics to diagnose funnel performance, forecast risk, and hold teams accountable to outcomes.
  • Run a metrics driven organization.
  • Managed managers — not just individual recruiters — and have a track record of developing and growing recruiting leaders.
  • Operated at both a scaled company and in a high-growth or startup environment, ideally seeing an organization through significant headcount expansion.
  • Build repeatable processes and scalable systems without over-engineering or leading with process at the expense of results.
  • Partner across levels and functions — from finance to engineering to executive leadership — adapting approach to each audience.
  • Operate with urgency, ownership, and accountability, measuring success by whether the right people are in seats, on time, and set up to succeed.
  • Bring curiosity and enthusiasm for AI tools and automation as applied to recruiting workflows and operations.

Bonus Points

  • Experience recruiting within AI infrastructure, GPU/accelerated computing, cloud services, or data center environments.
  • Experience in high-growth tech environments with significant annual hiring volumes.
  • Led a recruiting function through an IPO or other major organizational transition.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • Restricted Stock Units
  • Paid time off & paid holidays
  • Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
  • Employer contributions to HSA account
  • Paid parental leave
  • Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
  • Professional development & tuition reimbursement
  • Mental health & wellness support
  • Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
  • Cell phone stipend
  • 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary

Compensation Range

Compensation will be paid in the range of up to $192,000 - $239,000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicant's knowledge, education, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

Skills

Talent AcquisitionTechnical RecruitingData AnalyticsRecruiting MetricsAI ToolsAutomationApplicant Tracking SystemsFunnel AnalysisHiring RoadmapsStakeholder Management

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