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Lead Technical Recruiter

OpenTable

Skills

Required

  • analytics
  • market data
  • building data dashboards

Preferred

  • software engineering
  • infrastructure
  • data science

Join our team as a Principal Technical Recruiter, where you will play a critical role in identifying, attracting, and hiring top-tier engineering and specialized technical talent. You will serve as a trusted advisor to senior executive leadership, lead high-impact hiring initiatives, and elevate our technical recruitment standards. This role requires deep technical acumen, proven experience in full-cycle technical recruiting, and a passion for diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. Enjoy generous benefits, including paid vacation, parental leave, and mental health support.

Identifying, attracting, and hiring top-tier engineering and specialized technical talent to drive company growth.

Serving as a trusted advisor to senior executive leadership, leveraging recruitment analytics and market intelligence to shape workforce strategy.

Responsibilities

  • Leading high-impact hiring initiatives, designing scalable talent acquisition frameworks, and elevating technical recruitment standards across the organization.
  • Deep technical acumen with a strong functional understanding of software engineering, infrastructure, data science, or specialized research landscapes
  • Background in direct mentorship or formal coaching of talent acquisition team members and sourcers

Requirements

  • Proven track record of advising and influencing senior executive stakeholders using market data, pass-through rates, and pipeline health metrics
  • Demonstrated expertise in navigating and executing complex, high-level offer negotiations and compensation structuring
  • 8+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, ideally in-house within high-growth or enterprise technology environments
  • Proven experience establishing standardized interview rubrics and scalable talent assessment frameworks
  • Experience designing and standing up various hiring initiatives and inclusive sourcing programs within technical organizations
  • Expertise in advanced recruitment analytics and building data dashboards to track talent acquisition performance

Pay

USD 155,000 - 180,000