Senior Technical Recruiter

Summary

Join Thumbtack's Global Recruiting team as a Technical Recruiter and play a pivotal role in attracting, selecting, and hiring top technical talent. Partner with the Engineering organization to implement effective talent attraction techniques, own the talent assessment process, and master the art of negotiation to secure competitive offers. As a full-cycle recruiter, you will ensure equal opportunities exist and contribute to continuous improvement of Thumbtack's recruiting processes. You will leverage your expertise to make a significant daily impact and mentor others to match your high performance. Success requires at least 5 years of full-cycle recruiting experience in a tech-focused organization, proven results against hiring goals, and mastery in negotiation and closing talent.

Requirements

• Experience: At least 5 years as a full-cycle recruiter in an organization in which hiring is a critical company strategy
• Demonstrated experience successfully identifying, selecting, and hiring highly competitive technical talent
• A proven track record of delivering results against hiring goals
• Skills: Mastery in the art of negotiation and closing talent
• Trust-earning approach which has enabled you to influence partners
• Traits: A life-long learners mindset coupled with a high intellectual curiosity
• Relentlessly passionate about building a business, not just closing a req

Responsibilities

• Partnering across the Engineering organization to attract, select, and hire technical talent, your expertise will enable you to make a significant impact on a daily basis across
• Attraction: You will leverage and implement highly effective techniques and tools to uncover talent who will deliver results, become culture builders, and increase talent density within the Engineering organization
• Selection: As the key holder to the front door of Thumbtack, you will take ownership of the process by which talent is assessed ensuring that equal opportunities exist to get hired. You will hold the bar high for the business and ensure they thoughtfully understand and define their hiring needs, effectively identify skills/traits/experiences that will fulfill them, and fairly assess all candidates with whom they meet
• Hire: To win, we must be masters of the art of negotiation. With pay-equity in mind, you will partner with Compensation and Hiring Managers to propose the most reasonable and competitive offer, and sell it because you believe in it, while treating company resources as your own
• Operational Excellence: Whether Thumbtack prevails or fails, endures or dies, depends entirely on how well we hire. As a master of your craft, and as a lifelong learner, you will proactively contribute to improving how well we hire by implementing new ideas, best practices, and most of importantly, by influencing the business to set a gold-standard for hiring