Lead Technical Recruiter

• Own complex technical and product searches from intake through close, including niche, emerging, and confidential roles
• Partner with recruiting leadership on executive searches
• Build sourcing strategies through market mapping, competitive research, and targeted outbound campaigns
• Manage multiple high-complexity searches while maintaining pipeline momentum and candidate experience
• Advise on compensation and offer strategy and close candidates in competitive markets
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior engineering, data, and product leaders
• Shape role scope, leveling, interview design, and hiring strategy
• Lead intake and calibration to establish the hiring bar
• Use market evidence to reset expectations when searches stall and provide insight into hiring health
• Influence headcount planning and role scoping with market, compensation, and organizational context
• Use funnel, pipeline, and time-to-fill data to diagnose challenges and adjust strategy
• Bring root-cause analysis and recommendations and independently decide on search strategy, process, and stakeholder approach
• Test and adopt AI across sourcing, screening, outreach, and scheduling
• Define where AI can improve hiring quality and speed while preserving human judgment
• Build reusable playbooks, market intelligence, and recruiting best practices
• Mentor recruiters and sourcers on sourcing, stakeholder management, and closing
• Share candidates, intelligence, and pipeline across the team
• Set standards for collaboration, adaptability, and execution

Requirements

• 8+ years of full lifecycle technical recruiting, including senior and staff level IC hiring at a fast growing technology company
• Depth across engineering, data and ML, product, and design, with the fluency to credibly engage senior candidates
• Track record of building the approach yourself on searches where the role, the bar, or the market was undefined
• Strategic sourcing skill: market mapping, talent intelligence, and outbound that builds pipeline without leaning on inbound or agencies
• Fluency with recruiting data and tools including Greenhouse, Gem, LinkedIn Recruiter, and ModernLoop or similar
• Ability to build your own views and use metrics to make and defend decisions
• Executive presence and ability to influence without authority, grounded in understanding of the supported business
• Curiosity and aptitude for new technology
• Experience putting AI to work in your own workflow and ability to explain what it changed
• Reputation as a teammate who mentors, shares knowledge, and raises the team's level

Core Competencies

Demonstrates extensive experience in full lifecycle technical recruiting, particularly in engineering, data, and product roles, while leveraging strategic sourcing skills and recruiting data tools to drive effective hiring strategies. Proven ability to mentor teams and influence stakeholders through executive presence and data-driven decision-making.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Full Lifecycle Technical Recruiting
• Strategic Sourcing
• Recruiting Data Tools
• Executive Presence
• AI Integration in Recruiting

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Market Mapping
• Talent Intelligence
• Outbound Recruiting
• Root-Cause Analysis
• Hiring Strategy Development

  Soft Skills

  • Mentoring
  • Collaboration
  • Adaptability
  • Curiosity
  • Influencing Without Authority

  Industry Keywords

  • Technical Recruiting
  • Engineering
  • Data Science
  • Machine Learning
  • Product Design

  Tools & Technologies

  • Greenhouse
  • Gem
  • LinkedIn Recruiter
  • ModernLoop