Lead Technical Recruiter

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Provide guidance to hiring managers, directors, and executives on talent strategies and intricate technical hiring choices.

• Lead talent intelligence initiatives and market mapping for an entire department or vertical.

• Utilize AI to create repeatable workflows, enhance recruitment outputs, and boost team efficiency.

• Develop forward-looking recruiting strategies, inclusive of compensation analysis and recommendations for competitive positioning.

• Collaborate across recruiting, operations, and hiring teams to address process bottlenecks and enhance hiring effectiveness.

• Spearhead AI transformation, process enhancements, and high-impact projects to improve candidate experience, stakeholder satisfaction, and scalable recruiting systems.

• Guide teammates through practical problem-solving and elevate the overall capability of the technical recruiting team.

• Drive talent brand initiatives, encompassing events, platform presence, and targeted attraction campaigns aligned with Zapier’s Employee Value Proposition (EVP).

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive, senior-level experience in full-cycle technical recruiting.

• Responsibility for hiring strategy extending beyond personal requisitions or for complex pipelines.

• Experience in various engineering disciplines such as Applied AI, Software Engineering, Infrastructure, and Security is preferred.

• Strong operational and systems thinking that links recruiting to business outcomes.

• Experience in developing talent plans that involve compensation analysis, competitive positioning, and organization-wide market mapping.

• Ability to establish trust with and influence senior leaders and talent acquisition colleagues.

• High fluency in AI or a willingness to learn, integrating AI into core responsibilities.

• Capability to achieve results without formal authority, mentor and coach peers, and hold stakeholders accountable.

• Willingness to adapt viewpoints based on data, experience, results, and new contexts.

• Resourcefulness and comfort in navigating ambiguity.

• Ability to champion diverse talent pools and create inclusive interview processes at either team or department level.

• Must be authorized to work from the selected home location; Zapier does not provide visa sponsorship or transfers.

• Formal education is not a prerequisite.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity.

• Bonus.

• Fully remote work.

• Flexible remote work options available from nearly any country where Zapier can hire employees.

• Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.

• Transparent hiring process with application status updates aimed at within seven days.

• Option to decline the Ezra AI interview assistant with alternative options and equal consideration.