Senior Technical Recruiter

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own full-cycle recruiting for senior engineering positions, from scoping and sourcing through offer and close. Work closely with engineering leadership and company founders to shape the team and set a high bar for technical hiring. Combine hands-on sourcing with process design, careful candidate care and data-driven changes to pipeline strategy.

What you'll do

• Manage each senior engineering search from the first scoping conversation to a signed offer, including candidate flow and logistics.
• Source candidates directly and write outreach that earns strong responses.
• Screen rigorously and protect the hiring bar, including pushing back when quality slips.
• Provide a polished, personal experience for senior candidates throughout the process.
• Diagnose pipeline and offer issues using hiring data and candidate feedback, and adjust approach quickly.
• Work alongside engineering managers to shape what each opening needs and how candidates are evaluated, with limited direction required.
• Increase team leverage by working with sourcers and strengthening referral quality and conversion.

What we're looking for

• In-house technical recruiting experience at a venture-backed startup.
• Prior title as a senior, founding or founding technical recruiter working in-house.
• Track record of recruiting and closing senior software, platform, infrastructure, SRE, data science or machine learning engineers end-to-end.
• Hands-on experience with candidate sourcing, outreach writing and scheduling coordination.
• Proven ability to guide technical leaders in setting hiring criteria and evaluation steps.
• Stable tenure, typically one to two or more years per role, with a record of seeing work through.
• Degree required.
• Lawful authorization to work in the United States.

Bonus points

• Big tech or high-bar company experience alongside startup recruiting.

Compensation and benefits

• Base salary: $165K - $220K
• Equity
• Flexible time off
• Health, vision and dental coverage
• Life and accident insurance
• Short-term disability coverage
• 401k plan

Location and work model

• San Francisco, CA, United States
• On-site, 5 days per week
• Full-time