Technical Recruiter

Pave•San Francisco, CA

41d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Recruiting Team @ Pave is a small, high-leverage team consisting of two recruiters and a dedicated coordinator. They operate as trusted advisors to leadership on all major hiring decisions and own full-cycle recruiting across all levels. This role offers a unique advantage: direct access to Pave's live compensation benchmarking data, enabling recruiters to provide candidates with real-time market data and transparency. The team is also developing an AI compensation analyst, indicating a work environment where AI tools are integral to operations. This is an opportunity to work on the frontier of recruiting in a company that is actively building AI-native workflows.

Requirements

A proven track record sourcing and closing engineering talent across multiple levels and disciplines.
Experience recruiting at a high-growth startup or fast-paced tech company.
Strong Boolean search skills and sourcing instincts for passive candidates.
Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
Data-driven mindset — track pipeline metrics to make better decisions.
Real AI fluency — already using AI tools to do the job better and curiosity about what's next.

Responsibilities

Own the full hiring cycle: Drive end-to-end recruiting for R&D roles across Engineering, Product, Design, and Data, from sourcing passive candidates and crafting precise Boolean searches to closing senior hires.
Become a strategic partner: Work directly with hiring managers and leadership to define role requirements, pressure-test job specs, build pipelines ahead of headcount approval, and contribute to workforce planning.
Source where others don't: Build and execute creative sourcing strategies using Gem, LinkedIn Recruiter, and unconventional channels.
Close with a data advantage: Own the candidate experience end-to-end, including interview coordination, offer strategy, and compensation discussions, leveraging Pave's market compensation data.
Build the infrastructure, be ready to scale: Own pipeline metrics and reporting in Greenhouse and Gem, design and run the interviewer calibration and training program, and continuously improve recruiting process quality.
Use AI as a multiplier: Bring genuine fluency with AI-powered recruiting tools for candidate research, outreach personalization, pipeline summaries, and sourcing signals.