Principal Technical Recruiter
About The Position
As a Principal Technical Recruiter on our Recruiting team, you will play a critical strategic role in identifying, attracting, and hiring top-tier engineering and specialized technical talent to drive our company's growth. You will serve as a trusted advisor to senior executive leadership, leveraging recruitment analytics and market intelligence to shape our workforce strategy. You will lead high-impact hiring initiatives, design scalable talent acquisition frameworks, and elevate our technical recruitment bar across the organization. In this role, you will combine high-touch, executive-level candidate experiences with hands-on sourcing and complex offer negotiations.
Requirements
- 8+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, ideally in-house within high-growth or enterprise technology environments.
- Proven track record of advising and influencing senior executive stakeholders using market data, pass-through rates, and pipeline health metrics.
- Deep technical acumen with a strong functional understanding of software engineering, infrastructure, data science, or specialized research landscapes.
- Demonstrated expertise in navigating and executing complex, high-level offer negotiations and compensation structuring.
- Ability to work in a hybrid model, commuting to our San Francisco office 2 days per week.
Nice To Haves
- Experience designing and standing up various hiring initiatives and inclusive sourcing programs within technical organizations.
- Proven experience establishing standardized interview rubrics and scalable talent assessment frameworks.
- Background in direct mentorship or formal coaching of talent acquisition team members and sourcers.
- Expertise in advanced recruitment analytics and building data dashboards to track talent acquisition performance.
Responsibilities
- Partner directly with senior leadership, including Directors, VPs, SVPs, to design baseline hiring criteria, forecast workforce needs, and provide data-driven advisory on competitive market conditions.
- Execute advanced sourcing and market mapping strategies to build robust pipelines of passive, high-caliber talent across software engineering, infrastructure, data science, and research domains.
- Lead complex offer negotiations and construct competitive compensation packages while delivering a white-glove candidate experience from outreach to onboarding.
- Establish scalable hiring frameworks, standardized interview rubrics, and structured candidate evaluation processes across the broader engineering organization.
- Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives within the technical recruitment pipeline to ensure fair and comprehensive sourcing strategies.
- Upskill and mentor junior recruiters and sourcers, establishing best practices and raising the overall standard of technical talent acquisition across the team.
Benefits
- Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
- Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
- Company-paid subscription to Headspace
- Annual company-wide week off a year
- Paid parental leave
- Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
- Paid volunteer time
- Development Dollars
- Leadership development
- Access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings
- Travel Discounts
- Employee Resource Groups
- Free lunch 2 days per week
- health benefits
- flexible spending account
- retirement benefits
- life insurance
- paid time off (including PTO, paid sick leave, medical leave, bereavement leave, floating holidays and paid holidays)
- parental leave benefits
- annual bonus
- equity grant
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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