Principal Technical Recruiter

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with senior leadership, including Directors, VPs, SVPs, to design baseline hiring criteria, forecast workforce needs, and provide data-driven advisory on competitive market conditions.
• Execute advanced sourcing and market mapping strategies to build robust pipelines of passive, high-caliber talent across software engineering, infrastructure, data science, and research domains.
• Lead complex offer negotiations and construct competitive compensation packages while delivering a white-glove candidate experience from outreach to onboarding.
• Establish scalable hiring frameworks, standardized interview rubrics, and structured candidate evaluation processes across the broader engineering organization.
• Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives within the technical recruitment pipeline to ensure fair and comprehensive sourcing strategies.
• Upskill and mentor junior recruiters and sourcers, establishing best practices and raising the overall standard of technical talent acquisition across the team.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, ideally in-house within high-growth or enterprise technology environments.
• Proven track record of advising and influencing senior executive stakeholders using market data, pass-through rates, and pipeline health metrics.
• Deep technical acumen with a strong functional understanding of software engineering, infrastructure, data science, or specialized research landscapes.
• Demonstrated expertise in navigating and executing complex, high-level offer negotiations and compensation structuring.
• Ability to work in a hybrid model, commuting to our San Francisco office 2 days per week.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing and standing up various hiring initiatives and inclusive sourcing programs within technical organizations.
• Proven experience establishing standardized interview rubrics and scalable talent assessment frameworks.
• Background in direct mentorship or formal coaching of talent acquisition team members and sourcers.
• Expertise in advanced recruitment analytics and building data dashboards to track talent acquisition performance.

Benefits and Perks

• Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
• Focus on mental health and well-being:
  • Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
  • Company-paid subscription to Headspace
  • Annual company-wide week off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)
• Paid parental leave
• Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
• Paid volunteer time
• Focus on your career growth:
  • Development Dollars
  • Leadership development
  • Access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings
• Travel Discounts
• Employee Resource Groups
• Free lunch 2 days per week
• Convenient downtown SF office location close to the Embarcadero MUNI and BART stations.
• Building amenities, such as a gym & bike parking.