Founding Technical Recruiter

Allocate•Palo Alto, CA

4d•$180,000 - $210,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Allocate is building the operating system for private markets — wealth advisors and their clients use the platform to access, transact in, and manage private market investments. The platform supports 350+ advisory firms and 1,500+ GP relationships, with $ 5B+ in assets on the platform. Allocate is hiring its first dedicated, in-house technical recruiter — someone who can walk in and immediately own the full cycle recruiting for our engineering, product, and design teams, not just run playbooks handed down by someone else. You'll partner directly with the founders, CTO, and engineering leaders to translate hiring needs into structured, repeatable processes across engineering, product, and design teams, run full-cycle searches yourself (including specialized roles), manage relationships with any external recruiting partners, and design, build, and implement the recruiting motion and operations — training, rubrics, scorecards — that enables our teams to hire consistently and well while upholding our talent bar as the company scales. This is a hands-on, individual-contributor-to-team-of-one role today.

Requirements

10+ years in talent acquisition, with direct experience owning recruiting across EPD functions (Engineering, Product, Data/Research, Design)
A track record designing and deploying structured interviewing practices — not just running them, but building the frameworks (behavioral question banks, scorecards, interviewer training) from scratch.
A proven, hands-on track record in outbound sourcing for hard-to-reach and hard-to-identify candidates — deep comfort with advanced Boolean search, creative sourcing channels, and market mapping to surface talent that isn't actively looking or easily found through standard tools.
Experience evaluating and deploying AI-powered sourcing and recruiting tools (and a desire to keep experimenting) to extend what a lean talent function can do
Experience managing or coordinating external recruiting partners/agencies alongside internal pipelines.
A track record building talent/employer branding and talent communities — proactive candidate pipelines and employer positioning that generate inbound interest and shorten future searches.
Experience building consistent, scalable talent operations — the workflows, reporting, and process infrastructure that keep a recruiting function scalable and consistent.
Comfort operating as a function of one in an early-stage environment — equally able to run a search personally and to design the systems that outlast any single search.
A demonstrated commitment to inclusive hiring practices and diverse candidate pipelines.

Nice To Haves

Experience with ATS selection, implementation, or migration is a strong plus.
Broadband internet connection required

Responsibilities

Own full-cycle recruiting across engineering, product, and design teams — from role scoping and sourcing strategy through offer and close — including senior roles and specialized searches that require significant judgment and market fluency.
Design and run structured interview processes, including interviewer-specific guides, behavioral question banks, and scorecards mapped to role competencies — reducing bias and improving hiring signal.
Coach and train hiring managers and interviewers, building internal muscle memory so hiring quality doesn't depend solely on you.
Manage external recruiting partners and agencies where used, ensuring consistent candidate experience and process discipline across internal and external pipelines.
Own advanced outbound sourcing, with a demonstrated ability to identify and access hard-to-find, passive, and hard-to-reach candidates for niche or highly competitive roles — going well beyond inbound and standard database search.
Build and own sourcing strategy, including advanced Boolean/direct sourcing for hard-to-fill or competitive roles, and evaluate and deploy AI-powered tools to increase sourcing and pipeline efficiency.
Shape Allocate's talent and employer brand, developing the story, positioning, and candidate-facing materials that make Allocate compelling to the people we most want to hire.
Partner with the internal People team on talent and people operations, including how to build and optimize recruiting workflows, reporting, and process discipline that keep the function running smoothly as volume and complexity grow.
Champion an inclusive, high-integrity hiring process — from job description language through debrief calibration — as a founding value of how Allocate builds its team.