Senior Technical Recruiter

About The Position

Archive is hiring a Senior Technical Recruiter to help us scale how we hire while preserving what makes our culture special. This will be our first dedicated technical recruiter, reporting to our Head of People, and serving as a critical partner to Engineering, Product, and Technical Implementation leadership. This role sits at the intersection of technical recruiting excellence, operational rigor, and human-centered hiring. You’ll own technical hiring end-to-end while also building the systems, playbooks, and interviewer training that allow us to scale with consistency and care. You’ll recruit for teams building across a modern stack (TypeScript/React/Next.js, Node/Python, GraphQL, Postgres, AWS/Terraform) and should feel comfortable partnering closely with technical leaders on role design, calibration, and hiring strategy. If you’re someone who loves being in the doing, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and builds trusted relationships with ease, you’ll love this role. You’ll be both a high-output recruiter and a builder of foundations that last.

Requirements

5+ years of in-house recruiting experience, with a strong focus on technical hiring across software and data roles
Proven success recruiting in startup or high-growth environments
Demonstrated experience hiring across levels, including senior ICs (Senior/Staff+) and technical leadership roles up to the Director level.
Strong ability to build trusted relationships quickly and influence without authority
Highly execution-oriented: you move fast, stay organized, and love operating in the flow of active searches
Strong experience designing, implementing, and improving recruiting processes
Confidence coaching hiring managers with empathy, clarity, and a high bar
Technical fluency and comfort engaging with engineers and technical leaders
Systems-minded and data-informed, while staying deeply people-first
Experience with Ashby (or similar ATS) and demonstrated experience using AI-enabled recruiting workflows to improve efficiency and signal (e.g., sourcing support, outreach iteration, structured intake/calibration, interviewer enablement, pipeline insights)
Strong judgment, communication, and candidate advocacy instincts

Responsibilities

Own full-cycle recruiting for technical roles (primarily engineers, plus other technical roles as needed), with the ability to flex into non-technical hiring when priorities shift
Partner closely with hiring managers and leadership to deeply understand team needs and define thoughtful hiring strategies
Build and maintain high-quality pipelines through outbound sourcing, referrals, networking, and creative channel development
Drive a high-signal process end-to-end: calibration, interview design, evaluation quality, candidate communication, closing, and offers
Build scalable, structured recruiting practices that are equitable and efficient as we grow
Create and maintain technical interview playbooks and interviewer enablement materials (rubrics, scorecards, training sessions, guides) to support consistency as volume increases
Design and advocate for a deeply human, candidate-centric interview experience with clear expectations and fast feedback loops
Strengthen Archive’s employer story for technical talent and represent the company with credibility in the market
Own our recruiting tech stack (Ashby + tooling ecosystem), including workflows, automation, reporting, and continuous optimization
Leverage automation and AI-enabled recruiting workflows to improve speed and quality (sourcing, outreach, scheduling, synthesis, reporting), while ensuring the candidate experience staysigh-touch and deeply human
Lead hiring for roles across the technical org, from ICs through Director-level leadership, partnering closely with executives on strategy, assessment design, and closing
Manage external agencies when needed and scale partners up/down based on hiring volume and priority, with a bias toward building strong in-house capability