Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Protege is building a secure, efficient, and privacy-centric platform for exchanging AI training data. The Senior Technical Recruiter will own full-cycle recruiting for critical technical roles, develop creative sourcing strategies, partner with hiring managers and leadership, and deliver a high-quality candidate experience in a fast-moving environment.
Responsibilities
- Own full-cycle recruiting for multiple technical searches simultaneously, from intake through offer negotiation and close
- Partner closely with hiring managers to define role requirements, success profiles, interview strategies, and talent-market positioning
- Develop and execute creative, data-driven sourcing strategies to identify and engage exceptional technical talent
- Build deep understanding of technical roles, teams, and technologies to effectively assess and communicate with candidates
- Source directly across a range of channels and proactively build talent pipelines for difficult-to-fill roles
- Craft compelling, personalized candidate outreach that reflects Protege’s mission, culture, and technical opportunity
- Act as a trusted advisor to hiring managers, providing market intelligence, candidate feedback, and recommendations on search strategy
- Drive a high-touch candidate experience with clear communication, strong follow-through, and thoughtful closing
- Partner with interviewers and hiring managers to ensure a rigorous, efficient, and consistent evaluation process
- Identify bottlenecks and proactively adjust sourcing, process, or candidate positioning to keep searches moving
- Maintain accurate candidate data, pipeline visibility, and recruiting activity in our ATS
- Identify opportunities to improve recruiting processes, tools, and practices as the company scales
- Build strong relationships with hiring managers and develop a clear understanding of Protege’s technical talent bar
- Learn our teams, products, technologies, interview processes, and recruiting priorities
- Take ownership of multiple searches and quickly establish healthy candidate pipelines
- Develop effective sourcing and outreach strategies for priority roles
- Establish credibility with hiring managers through strong judgment, urgency, and communication
- Consistently move priority searches from intake through interview and close with limited oversight
- Build strong, qualified pipelines for difficult-to-fill technical roles
- Demonstrate strong technical recruiting judgment and the ability to calibrate effectively with hiring teams
- Provide hiring managers with useful market intelligence and actionable recommendations
- Stay on pace with team recruiting goals, including time-to-hire and quality of hire
- Be a trusted partner to hiring managers and leadership on technical talent strategy
- Consistently deliver high-quality candidates and successful hires for priority technical roles
- Anticipate recruiting challenges and proactively adjust strategy before searches stall
- Improve sourcing strategies, candidate pipelines, interview processes, or recruiting practices based on what you learn
- Contribute meaningfully to building a scalable recruiting function as Protege grows
Skills
- 7+ years of recruiting experience, with significant experience recruiting technical talent
- Proven track record of full-cycle recruiting in a startup or high-growth technology environment
- Experience recruiting across engineering, infrastructure, AI/ML, data, security, or other highly technical functions
- Strong technical sourcing skills and the ability to identify and engage highly sought-after talent
- Ability to quickly understand complex technical roles and translate technical requirements into effective recruiting strategies
- Strong recruiter instincts and judgment — you know how to assess talent, calibrate with hiring managers, and identify when a search needs to change
- Comfortable owning multiple searches independently and operating with minimal direction
- Highly organized and able to manage competing priorities without losing momentum or candidate quality
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Curious, tenacious, and proactive
- Biased toward action and comfortable being scrappy when the standard approach isn't working
- High level of integrity and discretion when working with candidates and sensitive company information
- You treat those around you with kindness
- Experience recruiting for AI/ML, data, infrastructure, security, or other highly technical teams
- Experience recruiting in a Series A–C startup environment
- Experience building sourcing strategies or recruiting programs from the ground up
- Experience using recruiting data and metrics to improve search strategy and outcomes
- Experience building inclusive hiring practices and expanding access to diverse talent
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