Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Babylist is a platform serving expecting and new families through shopping, guidance, health, financial, and content offerings. The Principal Technical Recruiter will own complex technical searches, partner strategically with engineering and product leadership, and build hiring infrastructure, capability programs, and offer strategies that improve the technical talent acquisition function.
Responsibilities
- You become a true trusted partner to the technical leadership team
- Own and close Babylist’s complex technical roles: senior, staff, and director-level engineers, principal PMs, and emerging AI/Builder profiles that require creative calibration and non-standard comp strategy
- Build and maintain the team’s hiring intelligence infrastructure: finals trackers, pipeline health dashboards, and funnel analysis tools that surface bottlenecks and patterns before they become problems
- Present pipeline health, hiring trends, and forward-looking recommendations to Engineering Leadership, with a point of view on what the data means, not just what it says
- Drive the offer strategy on hard-to-close situations: above-band requests, counter-offer re-engagements, and role upleveling decisions, with a framed recommendation and clear rationale, not just a list of options
- Design and run team capability programs, including peer screen reviews, calibration sessions, and recruiter coaching, that raise the quality bar across the full tech TA function
- Manage external agency partnerships using performance data you build and track: submittal quality, pass-through rates, and hire outcomes, holding partners to quality over volume
- Shape how Engineering and Product leadership thinks about hiring calibration and process, not just executing searches, but actively influencing the standards and decisions that determine who gets hired
Skills
- Technical fluency to probe engineering impact in a screen. You can speak the language with top technical talent and distinguish between elite technologists and strong subject matter experts
- 10+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting, not supported by a dedicated sourcing function or coordinator handling the heavy lift
- Experience driving genuinely complex offer situations: above-band justifications, counter-offer re-engagements where the competing number is 2 to 3x, and role upleveling mid-process, using comp strategy grounded in first-principles thinking and logic, not just benchmarking data
- Hiring manager-level judgment: you push back when a search is miscalibrated, propose process changes before you're asked, and make calls in ambiguous situations without needing sign-off on every decision
- You've acted as a mentor on your team, helping other recruiters grow. Operationally, you've built new tools for your team, such as a coaching program, a tracking system, a process change, or a framework that outlasted your direct ownership of it
- You're genuinely curious: about the market, about what strong engineering looks like in practice, about which candidates would do well in the Babylist culture, and about why a candidate hesitated and what it would take to change that
- You naturally reach for AI in your work. At Babylist, every team uses AI daily. You're already using it to move faster and improve your output, and you stay curious about what's coming next
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement with team members across the U.S. and Canada
- Leading tools like Claude and ChatGPT from day one, with no waiting on access
- Competitive pay and meaningful opportunities for career advancement
- Career progression and performance-based advancement
- Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Retirement savings plan with company matching and flexible spending accounts
- Generous paid parental leave and PTO
- Winter Wonder Week: the whole company takes a paid week off at the end of the year, whether or not you celebrate anything, so everyone's out at once and comes back refreshed
- Remote work stipend to set up your office
- Perks for physical, mental, and emotional health, parenting, childcare, and financial planning
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