Lead Technical Recruiter

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of intricate technical and product searches from the initial intake to closing, including specialized, emerging, and confidential positions.

• Collaborate with recruiting leadership on executive search initiatives.

• Develop sourcing strategies through market mapping, competitive analysis, and targeted outreach campaigns.

• Oversee multiple high-complexity searches while ensuring pipeline momentum and an excellent candidate experience.

• Provide guidance on compensation and offer strategies, successfully closing candidates in competitive markets.

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders in engineering, data, and product domains.

• Define role scope, levels, interview formats, and hiring strategies.

• Lead intake and calibration sessions to set the hiring benchmarks.

• Utilize market data to recalibrate expectations when searches stall and offer insights into hiring health.

• Influence headcount planning and role definition by considering market conditions, compensation, and organizational context.

• Analyze funnel, pipeline, and time-to-fill metrics to identify challenges and refine strategies.

• Conduct root-cause analyses and provide recommendations while independently determining search strategies, processes, and stakeholder engagement.

• Experiment with and implement AI across sourcing, screening, outreach, and scheduling processes.

• Identify areas where AI can enhance hiring quality and efficiency while maintaining human oversight.

• Create reusable playbooks, market intelligence resources, and best practices for recruiting.

• Mentor recruiters and sourcers in sourcing, stakeholder management, and closing techniques.

• Share candidate information, insights, and pipelines within the team.

• Establish standards for collaboration, adaptability, and effective execution.

⛳️ Requirements

• At least 8 years of full lifecycle technical recruiting experience, including senior and staff-level individual contributor hiring in a rapidly growing technology company.

• Expertise across engineering, data, machine learning, product, and design, with the ability to engage senior candidates credibly.

• Proven ability to independently develop approaches for searches where the role, standards, or market are not clearly defined.

• Strong strategic sourcing capabilities: market mapping, talent intelligence, and proactive outreach that builds pipelines without reliance on inbound or agency sources.

• Proficiency with recruiting data and tools such as Greenhouse, Gem, LinkedIn Recruiter, and ModernLoop or similar platforms.

• Capability to create your own insights and utilize metrics to make and justify decisions.

• Executive presence with the ability to influence without formal authority, based on a solid understanding of the business being supported.

• A keen curiosity and aptitude for new technologies.

• Experience integrating AI into your workflow and the ability to articulate its impact.

• A reputation as a collaborative teammate who mentors others, shares knowledge, and elevates team performance.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity stake.

• Discretionary annual bonus.

• Flexible work environment, allowing you to choose how many days you work in the office or opt for 100% remote work.

• A remote work stipend to assist with your home office setup.

• Unlimited paid time off (PTO).

• Up to 16 weeks of fully-paid family leave.

• 401(k) matching.

• Student loan matching program.

• Health, vision, dental, and life insurance coverage.

• Up to $25,000 allocated towards family building, reproductive health services, and gender-affirming care.

• $500 annually for wellness-related expenses.

• Subscriptions to Headspace (meditation), Headspace Care (therapy), and One Medical.

• $360 per quarter available for tickets to live events.

• Annual subscription to Spotify, Apple Music, or Amazon Music.