Technical Talent Acquisition Manager

ExaCare AI•New York, NY

30d•Hybrid

About The Position

Exacare ai is hiring a Technical Talent Acquisition Manager to help build the technical teams that will power its next stage of growth. This is an individual contributor (IC), manager-level recruiting role for someone who can own high-priority technical searches end-to-end while acting as a trusted partner to the Engineering, Product, Design, Data, and technical leadership functions. The role involves identifying, engaging, assessing, and closing exceptional technical talent in a highly competitive market. The successful candidate will work closely with hiring managers to define success profiles, build effective interview processes, develop targeted sourcing strategies, and ensure a high hiring bar as the company scales. This role is ideal for a senior technical recruiter or early technical TA manager who has owned complex technical searches, operates with urgency and precision, and wants to have a direct impact on the caliber of talent joining a fast-growing startup.

Requirements

3-5 years of experience in technical recruiting, talent acquisition, or executive/agency search, with a strong track record hiring technical talent.
Experience recruiting across engineering and adjacent technical functions such as Product, Design, Data, ML, Infrastructure, or technical leadership.
Demonstrated success sourcing, engaging, and closing passive technical candidates in competitive markets.
Strong understanding of technical recruiting fundamentals, including role intake, technical sourcing, candidate assessment, structured interviews, leveling, and offer closing.
Experience partnering directly with engineering leaders, product leaders, founders, or senior technical stakeholders.
Ability to quickly learn and communicate technical concepts, product context, team structure, and hiring needs with credibility.
Strong sourcing skills across LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search, GitHub, referrals, technical communities, and creative outbound strategies.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to influence hiring managers, build trust with candidates, and communicate tradeoffs clearly.
Strong ownership mindset and ability to operate independently in a fast-moving startup environment.
Exceptional organization and follow-through; you can manage multiple searches, stakeholders, candidates, and priorities without dropping details.
Comfort using recruiting data to diagnose pipeline gaps, improve process efficiency, and drive better hiring outcomes.
Experience with Rippling, Juicebox, or a similar ATS/recruiting workflow tool.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a high-growth startup, B2B SaaS, AI, health tech, healthcare technology, developer tools, infrastructure, or similarly complex technical environment.
Experience hiring senior engineers, staff-level engineers, technical leads, founding engineers, product managers, or machine learning engineers.
Experience improving technical interview processes, interviewer training, calibration, structured scorecards, or hiring manager enablement.
Experience recruiting for both IC and leadership-level technical roles.
Familiarity with healthcare, care delivery, post-acute care, or healthtech is a plus, but not required.
Prior experience as a Senior Technical Recruiter, Lead Technical Recruiter, or early Technical TA Manager is a plus.

Responsibilities

Own full-cycle recruitment for technical roles across Engineering, Product, Design, Data, ML, Infrastructure, and technical leadership, from intake to signed offer.
Lead role intakes with hiring managers to define requirements, success profiles, leveling, interview plans, scorecards, and closing strategies.
Manage multiple high-priority technical searches at once while maintaining strong process discipline, candidate follow-up, and stakeholder communication.
Build a deep understanding of exacare’s product, technical environment, customer needs, and business priorities in order to credibly represent the opportunity to candidates.
Serve as a talent advisor to hiring managers, providing guidance on market availability, candidate profiles, compensation expectations, process design, and closing risk.
Build and execute targeted sourcing strategies for hard-to-fill technical roles using LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search, GitHub, niche technical communities, referrals, alumni networks, events, and creative outbound channels.
Identify, engage, and nurture passive candidates across engineering, product, design, data, ML, and technical leadership talent pools.
Develop tailored outreach that speaks to candidate motivations, technical interests, startup appetite, and exacare ai’s mission.
Maintain strong long-term talent pipelines for future priority roles and recurring hiring needs.
Use sourcing and pipeline data to understand what is working, where conversion is dropping, and how to improve candidate quality and throughput.
Partner with hiring managers to continuously refine technical interview processes for speed, fairness, consistency, and signal quality.
Help build and improve structured interview rubrics, scorecards, interviewer calibration practices, and feedback norms.
Champion a high-touch, transparent, and thoughtful candidate experience from first outreach through offer close.
Drive candidates through process with urgency while ensuring expectations, feedback, and next steps are clearly communicated.
Support offer strategy and closing by understanding candidate motivations, compensation needs, competing opportunities, and decision criteria.
Develop and report on recruiting KPIs, including pipeline health, pass-through rates, time-to-hire, source performance, candidate quality, offer acceptance, and hiring manager responsiveness.
Use Ashby and other recruiting tools to maintain clean data, accurate reporting, and consistent workflow management.
Identify bottlenecks in the hiring process and proactively recommend improvements to increase speed, quality, and alignment.
Share talent market insights with hiring managers and leadership to inform hiring plans, role prioritization, and recruiting strategy.
Help raise the bar for how exacare ai attracts, evaluates, and closes exceptional technical talent.