Technical Recruiter (12 Months Contract)

This is a rare opportunity to work hand-in-hand with our Head of Talent Acquisition on the hires that matter most. We're not looking for someone to just fill requisitions. We're looking for a strategic partner who will help shape how we find, engage, and win top-tier engineering talent for the firm.

You'll be at the center of our most critical hiring decisions, building deep talent pipelines for senior and specialized engineering roles, and helping define the playbook for how we compete for the best people in the market. If you love the challenge of chasing hard-to-find talent, building real relationships with passive candidates, and having a direct seat at the table on hiring strategy this role is for you.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner directly with the Head of TA on our highest-priority, most strategic technical hires — you'll help set the strategy, not just execute it
• Build and own deep, proactive talent pipelines for senior and specialized engineering roles (Staff/Principal Engineers, Engineering Managers, ML/AI, Infrastructure) — ahead of need, not just reactively
• Develop creative sourcing strategies to reach top passive talent through LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, technical communities, and direct outreach
• Bring market intelligence to the table compensation trends, competitor moves, where the best talent is coming from and use it to sharpen our hiring strategy
• Run a world-class candidate experience for senior hires, from first contact through offer close
• Partner with engineering leadership on hiring bar, interview design, and leveling decisions
• Lead negotiations on complex offers (equity, sign-on, leveling)
• Help build scalable pipeline-building processes that outlast this contract systems and relationships the firm can keep leveraging
• Track and report on pipeline health and hiring metrics, feeding insights back into strategy

What Makes This Role Exciting

• Direct, high-visibility partnership with the Head of TA your work will directly shape hiring strategy, not just support it
• Ownership of pipeline-building for the firm's most important technical hires
• A chance to build something lasting: relationships, processes, and a talent pipeline that outlives the contract
• High autonomy paired with real strategic influence

Requirements

• 4+ years of technical recruiting experience, with a strong track record closing senior/staff-level or specialized engineering hires
• A true pipeline-builder mentality you think ahead of need, not just against open reqs
• Strong fluency in technical concepts and the ability to credibly engage senior engineers
• Skilled at building genuine relationships with passive candidates over long cycles
• Comfortable operating as a strategic advisor, not just an executor you'll have real input into how we hire
• Experience with ATS platforms (Greenhouse, Lever, or similar) and advanced sourcing tools

Nice to Have

• Experience recruiting for tech companies
• Background building or scaling a technical talent pipeline function