Senior Technical Recruiter

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in South Africa.

📋 Description

• Manage assigned requisitions and candidates independently from the initial intake to a successful start.

• Create qualified talent pipelines through targeted research, talent mapping, personalized outreach, referrals, and professional networks.

• Take responsibility for hiring outcomes, candidate progression, and timely updates on requisitions.

• Recruit for both technical and non-technical roles across various functions and geographic markets.

• Focus on recruiting senior technical positions in locations such as London, New York, Seattle, and other international markets.

• Develop local market insights and tailor sourcing strategies to different talent pools.

• Define role requirements, calibrate candidate profiles, establish sourcing strategies, and align evaluation criteria with hiring managers.

• Provide advice on candidate qualifications, talent availability, compensation expectations, and hiring strategies.

• Foster trusted relationships with hiring managers and offer guidance throughout the search process.

• Assess candidate qualifications, experience, and alignment with roles.

• Coordinate structured interviews, ensure timely feedback, and facilitate hiring decisions while overcoming obstacles.

• Develop closing strategies that consider candidate motivations, competing offers, compensation expectations, and concerns.

• Utilize approved AI, automation, and recruiting technologies while preserving human judgment and candidate confidentiality.

• Identify enhancements that decrease administrative tasks, expedite candidate progression, and improve recruiting results.

• Ensure accurate, complete, and timely requisition and candidate information in Greenhouse and other relevant systems.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of seven years of experience in independently sourcing, assessing, engaging, and closing candidates throughout the entire recruiting lifecycle.

• Proven track record in recruiting senior technical roles, including software engineering, AI, data, infrastructure, or related fields.

• Experience in recruiting for positions in regions outside of your own, including North America and Europe.

• Familiarity with recruiting senior technical talent in markets like London, New York, and Seattle.

• Ability to leverage market insights for sourcing strategies, candidate evaluations, compensation discussions, and hiring decisions.

• Excellent communication, relationship-building, organizational skills, and judgment among candidates, hiring managers, and cross-functional partners.

• Proficiency in utilizing approved AI tools, automation, data, and recruiting systems to enhance recruiting quality, speed, and effectiveness.

• Experience in building passive candidate pipelines and successfully closing candidates in competitive talent markets.

• Background in collaborating with senior technical leaders on role definitions, candidate calibration, and hiring strategies.

• Candidates with experience limited to recruiting coordination, interview scheduling, or transactional sourcing without full-cycle ownership will not be considered a fit.

🏝️ Benefits

• Enjoy remote work with hours aligned to 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM U.S. Eastern Time.

• Work at the forefront of AI, assisting leading AI labs in enhancing advanced models.

• Contribute to cutting-edge AI research and present your work at conferences such as ICLR, ICML, and NeurIPS.

• Apply innovative AI solutions to solve real-world enterprise challenges.

• Collaborate with and learn from colleagues with extensive AI experience from Google, Meta, Amazon, and other top technology firms.

• Thrive in a startup-speed environment that offers ownership and impact.

• Be part of an equal opportunity, diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace.