Hadrian

Director, Technical Recruiting

Hadrian

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Los Angeles • California • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Manage, mentor, and inspire a team of recruiters providing regular feedback, growth opportunities, and performance accountability
  • Act as a player-coach by directly running reqs and closing candidates for priority Software/Hardware/ Robotics Engineering positions
  • Set clear goals and expectations for the team, tracking progress through dashboards and data reviews
  • Foster a high-performance, collaborative recruiting culture grounded in continuous improvement
  • You’ll help define and drive Hadrian’s Technical recruiting strategy, shaping how we scale talent
  • Use data to identify bottlenecks, forecast hiring needs, and inform strategic decisions
  • Drive adoption of recruiting best practices across the team (e.g. structured interviews, consistent candidate communication, rigorous pipeline management)
  • Contribute to broader talent initiatives around tools, operations, and employer branding

Requirements

  • You have 9+ years of recruiting experience, including 3+ years managing recruiting teams larger than 10
  • You’re a builder comfortable creating structure where it doesn’t exist and scaling systems as the team grows
  • You lead with empathy and clarity, and know how to motivate teams through change and growth
  • You’re highly organized and data-driven, with a strong command of recruiting metrics and how to use them
  • You have a track record of closing high-caliber candidates across a range of functions
  • Experience in startup environments, agency-to-in-house transitions, or scaling recruiting operations
Benefits
  • Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees
  • 401k
  • Relocation stipend if you’re moving from outside of LA
  • Flexible vacation policy

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
recruiting metricsstructured interviewspipeline managementdata analysiscandidate communicationperformance accountabilitytechnical recruiting strategyforecasting hiring needsbottleneck identificationtalent scaling
Soft skills
mentoringleadershipempathyclaritymotivationorganizationcollaborationcontinuous improvementcommunicationadaptability