Head of Technical Recruiting
Decagon
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $275,000 - $305,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
Switching
About the role
- Build and scale a world-class technical recruiting organization - hiring, mentoring, and developing a high-performing team while setting the bar for operational excellence and talent quality.
- Define and drive technical hiring strategy across Engineering, Research, Product and Design in close partnership with senior leadership and Co-Founders.
- Design scalable recruiting systems, processes, and pipelines that enable speed, quality, and repeatability as we grow.
- Use data and insights to forecast needs, unblock challenges, optimize funnels, and deliver predictable hiring outcomes.
- Champion a “one-team” mindset, collaborating closely across Talent, People, and technical leadership to hit ambitious company-wide goals.
- Set the bar for exceptional talent quality, ensuring consistency in candidate assessment, leveling, and hiring decision frameworks.
- Drive innovative sourcing, engagement, and closing strategies to win top technical talent in highly competitive markets.
Requirements
- 7 - 10+ years of recruiting experience, with at least 5 years leading or managing recruiting teams.
- Demonstrated success building and scaling recruiting functions in high-growth and talent-dense organizations.
- Exceptional communicator and trusted partner to executives, hiring managers, and cross-functional teams.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity, context-switching, and the speed of a fast-moving startup.
- Strong operator with a nose for systems, repeatability, and process excellence.
- Have experience scaling teams from 250 to 1,000+
- Bring deep knowledge of the AI talent landscape and a network of top-tier candidates.
- Are highly data-fluent - able to build dashboards, interpret trends, and use insights to influence strategy and prioritization.
- Have a sharp eye for talent and a clear philosophy on what separates the exceptional from the great.
- Have experience scaling recruiting teams globally or building functions across multiple office locations or markets.
Benefits
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Hard skills
recruitingdata analysisdashboard creationcandidate assessmenthiring strategysourcing strategiesprocess designpipeline developmentteam scalingtalent acquisition
Soft skills
communicationleadershipcollaborationproblem-solvingadaptabilitystrategic thinkingtrust-buildingoperational excellencementoringdecision-making