Head of Technical Recruiting

Responsibilities

• Lead and scale Snorkel AIs technical recruiting function across Engineering, Research, Product, FDE, and Applied AI Engineering.
• Build, develop, and manage a high-performing team of technical recruiters, sourcers, and recruiting leaders as the company scales.
• Own the overall technical recruiting strategy, including workforce planning, pipeline development, sourcing strategy, candidate experience, closing strategy, and capacity planning.
• Partner closely with Engineering, Research, Product, and other technical leaders to understand business priorities and translate them into actionable hiring plans.
• Create a world-class recruiting operating model that balances speed, quality, rigor, and an exceptional candidate experience.
• Develop creative sourcing strategies for highly competitive technical and AI talent markets.
• Use data to identify bottlenecks, improve conversion, forecast hiring outcomes, and drive accountability across the recruiting process.
• Establish and track key technical recruiting metrics, including pipeline health, pass-through rates, time to fill, offer acceptance, source effectiveness, candidate experience, and quality of hire indicators.
• Coach hiring managers and interview teams on effective assessment, structured interviewing, calibration, and closing.
• Build scalable processes while remaining hands-on and close to the work where needed.
• Represent Snorkel AI externally as an employer of choice for world-class technical talent.

Requirements

• Experience building and leading technical recruiting teams in a hyper-growth startup environment, ideally at a company scaling from approximately 100 to 1,000 employees.
• Deep experience recruiting for technical functions such as Engineering, Research, Product, Machine Learning, AI, Infrastructure, Data, Applied AI, or similar areas.
• Strong knowledge of the Bay Area technical talent market and competitive AI/startup hiring landscape.
• A track record of building recruiting teams, developing recruiters, and creating scalable recruiting practices.
• Experience partnering directly with senior technical and business leaders on hiring strategy, prioritization, tradeoffs, and execution.
• Strong data orientation, with the ability to use recruiting metrics to diagnose problems, drive decisions, and communicate progress.
• Demonstrated creativity in sourcing, pipeline generation, talent mapping, and candidate engagement.
• Strong executive presence and communication skills, with the ability to influence across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and building systems, processes, and teams where they may not yet exist.
• A high bar for talent, candidate experience, and operational excellence.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in building and leading technical recruiting teams, developing scalable recruiting practices, and leveraging data-driven metrics to enhance hiring strategies. Proven ability to partner with senior leaders and create exceptional candidate experiences in a fast-paced, hyper-growth environment.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Technical Recruiting Strategy
• Team Leadership
• Data-Driven Decision Making
• Creative Sourcing Strategies
• Candidate Experience Management

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Technical Recruiting
• Workforce Planning
• Pipeline Development
• Sourcing Strategy
• Recruiting Metrics
• Talent Mapping
• Structured Interviewing
• Candidate Engagement
• Operational Excellence
• Scalable Recruiting Practices

Soft Skills

• Executive Presence
• Communication Skills
• Influencing Skills
• Creativity
• Comfort in Ambiguity

Industry Keywords

• Hyper-Growth Startup
• Technical Functions
• AI Talent Market
• Bay Area Talent Market
• Engineering
• Research
• Product
• Machine Learning
• Applied AI
• Infrastructure