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BetterUp•Austin, TX

5d•$85 - $90•Remote

About The Position

As a Senior Technical Recruiter (Contract) at BetterUp, you'll partner with engineering, product, and design leadership to build forward-looking talent strategies and identify the brilliant, passionate people who will do the best work of their lives here. You bring a builder's mentality — someone who goes through the trenches, proactively navigates competing priorities, and takes extreme ownership of outcomes. Tenacious curiosity and a commitment to mastering your craft are what will make you thrive in this role. At BetterUp, we're building an AI-enabled organization where continuous reinvention is a core value. Every team member leverages emerging technologies to unlock innovative solutions and maximize impact. As a Senior Technical Recruiter (P4), you'll drive functional strategy for AI adoption within talent acquisition, identifying transformational opportunities that create competitive advantage in how we source, assess, and close technical talent. You will build scalable AI-powered recruiting workflows — from intelligent sourcing and candidate screening to automated scheduling and pipeline analytics — that fundamentally change how work gets done. You will serve as a trusted advisor to TA leadership on AI capabilities, limitations, and strategic implications for technical hiring, and establish governance frameworks and best practices for responsible AI usage across the recruiting function. We encourage all candidates to share examples of how they've used AI tools in their work — whether sourcing automation, outreach personalization, or data-driven pipeline analysis. We view AI fluency as a complement to craft, not a replacement for it. During our interview process, you'll have opportunities to showcase how you harness AI to learn, iterate, and amplify your impact.

Requirements

7+ years of recruiting experience, ideally with both agency and in-house exposure; at least 4 years recruiting internally at a growth-stage startup
4+ years of technical full-lifecycle recruiting for a variety of R&D role, particularly product, design and engineering
Proven experience managing VP+ hiring partner relationships as the primary recruiting point of contact
Track record of using recruiting data to identify opportunities to improve hiring process quality and assessment rigor
Experience closing candidates, articulating pre-IPO equity, and presenting competitive total compensation packages
Fluency with ATS platforms, LinkedIn Recruiter, boolean search, and creative sourcing strategies
AI fluency as a complement to craft, not a replacement for it.
Ability to harness AI to learn, iterate, and amplify your impact.

Responsibilities

Partner with HR and senior hiring team members (Manager through VP+) to define and implement forward-looking talent strategies that address future talent needs
Serve as a trusted advisor to managers and leaders, influencing org-level and requisition-level talent acquisition decisions
Build creative, audacious hiring strategies across a portfolio of technical roles — and deliver on them
Set clear expectations with hiring teams through thorough follow-up and follow-through at every stage of the process
Source ferociously to find the best global talent for each role; build diverse, high-quality top-of-funnel pipelines
Drive a candidate assessment process that enables BetterUp to hire exceptional talent that's right for us
Embed DEIB sourcing and assessment practices into every search
Build memorable candidate relationships that authentically demonstrate BetterUp's employer value proposition
Drive functional strategy for AI adoption within talent acquisition, identifying transformational opportunities that create competitive advantage in how we source, assess, and close technical talent
Build scalable AI-powered recruiting workflows — from intelligent sourcing and candidate screening to automated scheduling and pipeline analytics — that fundamentally change how work gets done
Serve as a trusted advisor to TA leadership on AI capabilities, limitations, and strategic implications for technical hiring
Establish governance frameworks and best practices for responsible AI usage across the recruiting function