Talent Partner (Technical Recruiter)

Read AI, Inc.•Seattle, WA

3d•$120,000 - $145,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Read AI is seeking a Talent Partner to own recruiting for either Product & Design or Engineering. The role handles early-career through senior individual-contributor searches and Engineering Manager searches, owning the process from intake and sourcing through interviews and offer close. The Talent Partner will typically manage six or more open searches at a time, adding recruiting capacity and improving hiring speed, calibration, and candidate experience. The role works closely with hiring managers, interviewers, teammates, and leadership, and has room to improve recruiting processes and experiment with AI tools. The position is based in Read AI’s Seattle office on a hybrid schedule, with in-office work Tuesday through Thursday. The base salary range is $120,000–$145,000, plus equity and comprehensive benefits. Read AI cannot sponsor work visas for this role.

Requirements

3–5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including significant experience hiring technical roles in Engineering, Product, and/or Design.
Experience owning senior individual-contributor searches; first-line manager search experience is preferred.
Demonstrated sourcing ability, including building candidate slates from scratch and writing effective outreach.
Ability to partner directly with hiring managers and push back with data when needed.
Strong recruiting operations expertise and hands-on experience with a modern ATS; Ashby is strongly preferred.
Strong organizational skills and ability to manage six or more searches and complex interview loops without losing details.
Clear, warm communication with candidates throughout the recruiting process.
A track record of closing candidates in competitive markets.
Curiosity about AI and its potential to change recruiting work.
Unable to sponsor work visas for this role.

Nice To Haves

Experience setting up or improving ATS workflows, automations, or dashboards, such as Ashby interview plans and custom reports.
Experience building AI agents, prompts, or AI-assisted workflows into recruiting processes.
Startup or high-growth company recruiting experience.
Experience recruiting in the Seattle tech market.

Responsibilities

Own full-cycle recruiting, from intake through signed offer, for a portfolio of six or more searches.
Run searches spanning early-career through senior individual contributors and Manager and Director roles.
Lead intake meetings and turn hiring needs into written briefs, scorecards, and interview plans.
Screen candidates and calibrate with hiring managers using technical and functional fluency.
Manage offers and candidate closes.
Proactively source passive talent through LinkedIn, GitHub, Dribbble, communities, and referrals; write personalized outreach and maintain talent pipelines.
Coordinate interviews across panels, prepare interviewers and candidates, and run debriefs that support clear, calibrated decisions.
Advise hiring managers on the talent market, talent availability, and recruiting process.
Manage recruiting operations in Ashby, including interview plans, stages, scorecards, and data hygiene.
Use ATS reporting to share pipeline health, conversion, and forecasts, and flag at-risk requisitions early.
Review teammates’ candidate slates and sourcing strategies and share effective practices.
Support Staff+ and leadership searches with sourcing when needed.
Experiment with AI tools, agents, and automation to improve sourcing, preparation, and coordination.