Senior Tech Recruiter

Sonar•Austin, TX

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Sonar is looking for a Senior Recruiter based in San Mateo to lead full-cycle recruitment across both technical, GTM and G&A roles. This role will help integrate and scale the Gitar team following our acquisition, and will be our first recruiter in our Bay Area office. You'll partner closely with hiring managers and senior stakeholders across the globe to identify, attract, and close exceptional talent spanning all our divisions across tech and non-tech. We're in high-growth mode, and the roles you recruit for today may not be the roles you're recruiting for six months from now. As our go-to recruiter for the West Coast, we need someone with the range and experience to flex with the business—stepping into whatever hiring priorities emerge, whether that's engineering, GTM, or something in between. We'd love someone with true generalist depth across technical and non-technical roles, but what matters most is recruiting excellence: we're looking for a strong talent partner, not an administrator. You should be someone hiring managers and executives trust to shape hiring strategy, not just execute against a job spec. This is a high-ownership role for someone who wants to be deep in the weeds—sourcing, pitching, and closing—while also thinking like an owner about how the function should scale.

Requirements

Significant experience as a full-cycle recruiter, with a proven track record recruiting for technical/engineering roles
Deep knowledge of the Bay Area and US talent market to advise stakeholders on compensation benchmarks, market trends, and competitive positioning for both engineering and GTM talent
Strong recruiting operations instincts—comfortable owning ATS data integrity, pipeline reporting, and process documentation without needing a dedicated ops function to lean on
Proven experience working with global companies and stakeholders across different regions and time zones
Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trust and influence senior leaders, including executives
Strong, proactive sourcing background and the instincts of a hunter—comfortable building pipeline from scratch across disciplines
Strong "selling" skills—able to pitch opportunities compellingly and close passive candidates in competitive markets
Operate with an owner-operator mindset: self-directed, resourceful, and comfortable driving results with minimal oversight
Experience recruiting in fast-paced, high-growth environments, ideally including experience supporting M&A integration or newly acquired teams
Communicate with exceptional clarity, both written and verbal, across all levels of an organization and across technical and business audiences
Comfortable managing a high volume of open roles simultaneously across functions without sacrificing quality or candidate experience

Nice To Haves

Prior experience recruiting in the AI, dev tools, or enterprise software space

Responsibilities

Own full-cycle recruitment, from intake to close, for technical roles supporting the integration of the recently acquire company Gitar
Partner directly with engineering leaders to build hiring strategies aligned to business priorities
Lead technical hiring for the newly acquired Gitar team, working closely with engineering managers to define role scope, calibrate technical bars, and integrate new hires smoothly
Act as a hands-on hunter: proactively source and build robust talent pipelines across technical functions, rather than relying solely on inbound applications
Sell Sonar's mission and opportunity to passive candidates, acting as a trusted advisor and closer throughout the hiring process
Manage a high volume of concurrent searches across multiple functions and levels while maintaining a high bar for candidate experience and quality of hire
Identify opportunities to improve or automate recruiting workflows, from sourcing outreach to interview scheduling, so the function scales efficiently as hiring volume grows