Senior Recruiter – Team Lead

Fiddler AI

Senior Recruiter & Team Lead driving full-cycle recruiting for Fiddler, an AI Observability startup. Partnering with leaders to ensure high-quality hires and build scalable recruitment processes.

Posted 6/15/2026full-timePalo Alto • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $145,000 - $180,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Drive full-cycle recruiting across GTM and EPD, partnering directly with leaders, delivering consistent, high-quality hires that raise the talent bar.
Serve as a trusted advisor to hiring leaders on calibration, candidate quality, and closing, ensuring every hire is assessed on long-term potential and fit, not just credentials.
Proactively identify and engage exceptional talent across industry and academia, building relationships before roles open so we're never starting from zero.
Build and refine recruiting processes, workflows, and interview structures that make Fiddler's hiring scalable, repeatable, and a model for what great talent acquisition looks like at a high-growth AI company.
Bring sharp, consistent people judgment to every evaluation, assessing candidates on who they're becoming, not just where they've been.
Create and manage targeted outreach campaigns and bias-free evaluation frameworks that improve both the quality and diversity of our candidate pipeline.
Manage 8–12 open roles simultaneously with the organization and discipline to keep every search moving without sacrificing candidate experience.
Enhance Fiddler's employer brand with candidates so that every interaction, regardless of outcome, leaves people wanting to work here

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience in a high-growth tech or SaaS environment
Experience recruiting across GTM and EPD, with the ability to context-switch and calibrate across very different talent profiles
Comfortable partnering with and influencing senior leadership on hiring strategy, not just executing against it
Proven track record of engaging and closing hard-to-reach candidates in competitive markets, often against offers from larger, more established companies
Has built or meaningfully improved recruiting processes, workflows, or interview structures from the ground up
Ready to take a genuine first step into talent leadership, contributing to team rhythm, mentorship, and how the function operates

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive pay + equity
Premium health, dental & vision
401(k) plan
Open PTO
Monthly fitness reimbursement
Paid parental leave
Palo Alto HQ vibes
Annual Caltrain pass
Monthly in-office massages
Fastrak reimbursement
Lunch provided in office Mon-Thurs

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Hard Skills & Tools

full-cycle recruitingrecruiting processesworkflowsinterview structurescandidate assessmentoutreach campaignsbias-free evaluation frameworks

Soft Skills

people judgmentrelationship buildinginfluencing senior leadershipmentorshiporganizational discipline