Contract Technology Recruiter

Versant•Englewood Cliffs, NJ

2d•$45 - $75•Hybrid

About The Position

Versant is seeking an experienced Contract Technology Recruiter to help build critical technology, data, AI, and product capabilities across a rapidly evolving organization. This is a hands-on role for a recruiter who combines deep technical recruiting experience, advanced sourcing expertise, and strong consultative stakeholder management. You will recruit specialized and difficult-to-find talent while serving as a trusted advisor to hiring leaders—helping them understand the talent market, calibrate requirements, and develop effective strategies for building their teams.

Requirements

7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with significant experience recruiting complex technology talent.
Exceptional advanced-sourcing capability and a demonstrated track record of identifying and engaging passive, specialized, and difficult-to-find technical candidates.
Recruiting experience across multiple technical disciplines, particularly software engineering and data engineering, with exposure to AI/ML, analytics/data science, infrastructure/platform, and product talent.
Enough technical recruiting fluency to understand and discuss skills such as SQL, Python, APIs, infrastructure, data architecture, AI, and machine learning and distinguish meaningful candidate experience beyond keyword matching.
Strong consultative stakeholder-management skills, including the confidence to influence and appropriately challenge hiring managers using talent-market evidence and recruiting expertise.
Ability to operate autonomously, prioritize across a high-volume portfolio, and bring a strong sense of urgency, ownership, and follow-through to difficult searches.
Experience working in both agency and in-house recruiting environments is preferred; candidates with primarily in-house experience should demonstrate comparable sourcing rigor, pace, urgency, and results orientation.
Strong communication, relationship-management, and organizational skills, with the ability to adapt quickly as priorities and hiring needs change.

Responsibilities

Recruit specialized technology talent across software engineering, data engineering, AI/machine learning, analytics/data science, infrastructure/platform, and product, with searches ranging from individual contributor through senior leadership levels.
Lead advanced sourcing strategies for difficult-to-find talent. Proactively identify and engage passive candidates using LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, Boolean/X-ray search, talent and market mapping, targeted communities, networking, referrals, and other creative sourcing approaches.
Serve as a consultative talent advisor to hiring managers and senior leaders. Lead intake and calibration discussions around role requirements, must-have versus trainable skills, talent availability, target companies, level, compensation, and realistic hiring expectations.
Bring market intelligence into hiring decisions. Use sourcing results, candidate feedback, competitive intelligence, compensation considerations, and talent-market data to challenge assumptions and recommend changes to search strategy or role requirements when appropriate.
Own the full recruiting lifecycle from intake and sourcing through assessment, interview, offer, and close while managing approximately 15–25 concurrent requisitions and maintaining a strong candidate and stakeholder experience.
Build strong stakeholder relationships across hiring managers, HR, Compensation, interview teams, and recruiting partners through proactive communication, clear expectations, frequent updates, and early identification of risks or challenges.