Lead Recruiter

Utility Profit•Austin, TX

19d•Onsite

About The Position

Utility Profit is seeking a Lead Recruiter to own recruiting as both a function and a craft, reporting to the COO. The Lead Recruiter will manage the existing in-house recruiter and retained search firms while personally sourcing, screening, interviewing, and closing candidates for priority roles. The role also owns hiring plans, pipeline health, recruiting strategy, and contingency plans for high-value positions. The Lead Recruiter will work directly with the executive team and hiring managers across Product, Engineering, Sales, Operations, and Marketing. They will shape job descriptions, design interview plans and scorecards, train interviewers, maintain a high-quality candidate experience, and establish recruiting standards, timelines, channels, service-level expectations, interviewer capacity, and tool usage. The role uses Greenhouse or related tools and applies AI to sourcing, writing, and research while maintaining sound human judgment. Utility Profit is a profitable, product-led technology company based in Austin. The team works in person Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

Requirements

Several years of recruiting experience, personally sourcing and closing priority roles rather than only managing processes or agencies.
Experience filling difficult, high-bar roles, such as technical, leadership, or other priority positions.
Experience managing at least one in-house recruiter and/or retained search firms while continuing to recruit hands-on.
Experience setting recruiting strategy or building a hiring plan.
Experience recruiting at an early-stage or rapidly growing company, with meaningful autonomy and high expectations.
Ability to build contingency plans and backup pipelines for roles the business cannot afford to leave vacant.
Good judgment about when to use retained search firms and when to recruit in-house; ability to brief and hold firms accountable.
Ability to protect hiring quality while maintaining speed, challenge unrealistic plans, and give direct feedback to hiring managers and leadership.
Clear, precise communication about pipeline health, risks, and next steps.
Resourcefulness and a bias for action focused on outcomes rather than activity alone.
Active use of AI tools to improve work speed and quality, with judgment about where human decisions remain necessary.
Comfort with Greenhouse or a similar applicant tracking system.
Based in Austin and able to work in person Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

Nice To Haves

Experience hiring in the United States and Mexico or Latin America, or managing a mix of employees and contractors across those markets.
Technical recruiting experience.
Executive or leadership recruiting experience.

Responsibilities

Personally source, screen, interview, and close candidates for priority roles.
Build and manage recruiting pipelines so future candidates are identified, not only those currently in process.
Write and refine job descriptions with hiring managers, ensuring they accurately reflect the work, hiring bar, and tradeoffs.
Design interview plans and scorecards, train interviewers, and manage the process from initial outreach through accepted offer.
Own and maintain a clear, high-quality candidate experience.
Manage the in-house recruiter’s priorities, hiring bar, coaching, workload, and division of responsibilities.
Own retained-agency relationships, brief firms, hold them accountable, determine which searches belong with agencies, and bring searches in-house when appropriate.
Maintain a consolidated view of pipeline health across in-house and agency recruiting.
Create realistic hiring timelines and surface risks early with recommended changes.
Develop and maintain contingency plans and backup pipelines for high-value roles, including clear activation triggers.
Define recruiting channels, service-level expectations, interviewer load, hiring standards, and tools.
Use Greenhouse or related recruiting tools to maintain reliable data, and use AI for sourcing, writing, and research.