Zip

Senior Technical Recruiter, Product and Design

Zip

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • California

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Effectively identify, attract, and engage top Product & Design candidates through creative sourcing strategies and talent mapping
  • Source and maintain a large, high-quality pipeline across high-priority Product and Design roles, balancing volume and specialization
  • Partner with Zip’s founders, CPO, and senior leadership to define hiring needs, ideal candidate profiles, and go-to-market recruiting strategies
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to hiring managers by providing market insights, competitive intelligence, and data-driven recommendations
  • Screen, vet, and guide candidates throughout the interview and hiring process while keeping candidate experience top of mind
  • Partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Marketing, Operations, and People teams to drive alignment and land successful hires
  • Lead compensation conversations and offer negotiations, including startup equity packages
  • Track recruiting metrics and performance to continuously optimize processes, improve conversion rates, and scale hiring effectively
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with candidates, hiring managers, and senior leadership to influence decision-making and hiring outcomes

Requirements

  • 6–10+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with a focus on Product and/or Design roles
  • Proven success hiring for Product Managers, Product Leads, Product Designers, UX Researchers, Design Managers, and Heads of Design
  • Ability to influence and build trusted relationships with senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong sense of ownership and passion for delivering excellent results with speed and precision
  • Highly proactive, resourceful, and solutions-oriented; comfortable thriving in ambiguity and a fast-moving startup environment
  • Detail-oriented and organized; comfortable managing multiple requisitions and competing priorities simultaneously
  • Strong experience working with ATS platforms (Ashby experience preferred)
  • Familiarity with compensation structures and negotiating startup equity packages
  • Nice to haves: experience scaling recruiting in a high-growth startup; background in B2B SaaS and/or Fintech recruiting; experience managing both volume hiring and niche senior-level searches; experience building recruiting processes from the ground up