Senior Recruiter

Mercor • San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

As Mercor’s Senior Recruiter, you’ll own full-cycle hiring across operations and engineering roles, partnering directly with founders and leaders. You will be responsible for recruiting for priority roles across GTM, Ops, Product, and Engineering, utilizing creative outbound strategies and our own product to build a strong candidate pipeline. Your role will involve designing assessments to predict on-the-job performance, coaching hiring managers on structured interviewing, and championing speed and quality in the hiring process. You will also operationalize the recruitment funnel, build the company brand, and ensure a positive candidate experience throughout the hiring process.

Requirements

• 5–8+ years full-cycle recruiting in high-growth startups or top-tier tech; you’ve hired for both technical and non-technical roles.
• Proven record building pipelines that convert—especially from cold outreach and nontraditional sources.
• Comfortable spinning up structured interviews, work-sample tests, and rubric-based debriefs.
• Analytical recruiter: you instrument your funnel and act on the data.
• Clear, persuasive communicator who can influence senior stakeholders and close top talent.

Nice To Haves

• Experience recruiting for AI/ML, data labeling/ops, infra, or enterprise GTM at seed→growth stages.
• You’ve used automation/LLMs in your recruiting workflow and can teach others.
• Network among operators, founders, and researchers at leading AI labs or startups.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting for priority roles (sourcing → close) across GTM, Ops, Product, and Engineering.
• Build top-of-funnel using creative outbound, talent intelligence, and our own product.
• Design assessments that predict on-the-job performance; instrument signal quality and reduce noise.
• Coach hiring managers on structured interviewing, leveling, and decision hygiene.
• Champion speed and quality: SLAs for response times, same-day debriefs, and offer velocity.
• Operationalize the funnel: dashboards for pass-through rates, time-in-stage, source yield; weekly hiring reviews.
• Build brand: campaigns, referrals, and events that attract top operators and engineers.
• Close: comp modeling, equity education, competing-offer strategy, and candidate experience end-to-end.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and bonus earning potential + meaningful equity.
• Medical, dental, vision insurance.
• 401(k) plan.
• Generous PTO.
• Excellent office culture.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior