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About the Role
This is a company-building role where you will own recruiting end-to-end and help define how the organization scales. You will partner directly with the executive team and senior leaders to identify, attract, and close highly sought-after technical and business talent, while also establishing foundational People Operations practices.
Responsibilities
- Lead full-cycle recruiting across technical, product, and business operations roles.
- Develop sourcing strategies for difficult-to-access talent markets.
- Build target-company maps and long-term talent pipelines.
- Conduct candidate outreach, screening, interview management, references, offers, and closing.
- Develop compelling recruiting narratives that reflect the company's mission, opportunity, and ambition.
- Partner with executives and leaders to define hiring requirements before searches begin.
- Recruit across engineering, software, systems, research, product, operations, and other specialized disciplines.
- Help evaluate talent through structured interview processes and hiring calibration.
- Guide compensation and closing conversations for highly sought-after candidates.
- Implement scalable recruiting processes, tools, and metrics.
- Own recruiting analytics, forecasting, and reporting.
- Establish interview best practices, scorecards, and hiring governance.
- Improve candidate experience and employer brand.
- Build the recruiting foundation that future talent team members will inherit.
- Work with leadership on headcount planning and organizational design.
- Advise on talent market dynamics, compensation trends, and hiring risks.
- Help determine when problems should be solved through hiring, automation, partnerships, or organizational design.
- Serve as a trusted partner to senior leaders as the company scales.
- Partner with leadership on onboarding, employee experience, and organizational development initiatives.
- Support workforce planning, headcount forecasting, and talent analytics.
- Help introduce scalable practices around performance, career growth, and team effectiveness.
- Contribute to building a high-performance culture as the company scales.
Requirements
- 7+ years of recruiting experience, including substantial technical recruiting responsibility.
- Proven success recruiting highly specialized talent in competitive markets.
- Experience hiring engineers, researchers, technical professionals, or other highly specialized talent.
- Strong sourcing capability and the ability to identify technical depth versus surface-level experience.
- Comfort engaging with senior technical leaders and understanding complex technical environments.
- Exceptional written communication skills.
- Strong operational discipline and data-driven decision making.
- Ability to thrive in ambiguity and build systems from scratch.
- Experience leveraging AI and automation to improve recruiting effectiveness.
- Experience in technology, engineering, advanced manufacturing, research-intensive, or other highly technical environments.
- Early-stage startup experience.
- Experience serving as a company's first dedicated recruiting or talent leader.
- Recruiting for organizations where talent density and technical excellence are critical to success.
- Existing relationships within engineering, research, scientific, or other specialized technical communities.
Skills
- Technical recruiting
- Sourcing
- Candidate outreach
- Screening
- Interview management
- References
- Offer negotiation
- Closing
- Recruiting narratives
- Hiring requirements definition
- Talent evaluation
- Structured interview processes
- Hiring calibration
- Compensation guidance
- Recruiting process implementation
- Recruiting tools
- Recruiting metrics
- Recruiting analytics
- Forecasting
- Reporting
- Interview best practices
- Scorecards
- Hiring governance
- Candidate experience improvement
- Employer brand building
- Workforce strategy
- Headcount planning
- Organizational design
- Talent market dynamics analysis
- Compensation trends analysis
- Hiring risk assessment
- Onboarding optimization
- Employee experience
- Organizational development
- Workforce planning
- Headcount forecasting
- Talent analytics
- Performance management
- Career growth
- Team effectiveness
- High-performance culture building
- AI in recruiting
- Automation in recruiting
Experience Level
- 7+ years of recruiting experience
Salary/Compensations
- $100,000 - $140,000 a year
About the Company
- Our client is a growing technology company developing highly specialized, technically complex products and solutions.
- The organization is building a team capable of operating at the intersection of advanced technology, engineering, research, and commercial execution.
- The company is at an important stage of growth.