Technical Recruiter
LMArena
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Bay Area • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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SeniorLead
About the role
- Partner with hiring managers to clarify role outcomes, success profiles, and interview plans; prioritize reqs against business goals.
- Run full-cycle recruiting: kickoff → JD refinement → sourcing → assessment → debriefs → offer → close.
- Build pipelines via targeted sourcing (passive outreach, talent communities, events, referrals, and thoughtful job posts).
- Maintain a structured, fair process: define competencies, calibrate rubrics, and uphold a consistent candidate experience.
- Hold a relentless drive for excellence in every stage—calibrating rubrics, tightening loops, and continuously improving the funnel.
- Track and improve funnel health (speed, quality, diversity signals); report weekly and quarterly progress with clear narrative and metrics.
- Drive offer strategy and negotiations aligned to leveling, compensation bands, and market insights.
- Nurture long-term networks of high-potential talent; keep a mapped bench for critical and future roles.
- Partner on employer brand moments (events, content, communities) that attract deep-tech talent.
- Coach hiring managers and interviewers on best practices and candidate excellence.
Requirements
- 10+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting in deep-tech environments.
- Proven strength sourcing and closing passive candidates for high-bar roles; skilled at narrative selling and objection handling.
- Demonstrated ability to translate business needs into clear hiring plans, profiles, and processes.
- Experience collaborating across functions and influencing stakeholders at pace.
- Expertise at hiring across a range of technical skill sets.
- Fluency with structured interviewing, competency rubrics, and recruiting analytics.
- Commitment to inclusive hiring and candidate experience.
- A relentless drive for excellence—raising the bar on candidate quality, process rigor, and stakeholder experience.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity aligned to the markets where our team members are based.
- Comprehensive health and wellness benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and additional support programs.
- The opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI with a small, mission-driven team.
- A culture that values transparency, trust, and community impact
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
full-cycle recruitingsourcingassessmentcandidate experiencestructured interviewingcompetency rubricsrecruiting analyticsnarrative sellingobjection handlinghiring plans
Soft skills
collaborationinfluencing stakeholderscommitment to inclusive hiringdrive for excellencecoachingcommunicationnetworkingprocess improvementanalytical thinkingstrategic thinking