Technical Recruiter

The role

A Technical Recruiter will help scale the team by serving as an advisor to candidates and hiring leaders. You will run full-cycle recruiting, build talent pipelines, and partner with hiring managers to define role outcomes and interview plans.

What you will do

• Partner with hiring managers to clarify role outcomes, success profiles, and interview plans
• Run full-cycle recruiting from kickoff to close
• Build pipelines via targeted sourcing
• Maintain a structured, fair process using competencies and rubrics
• Track and improve funnel health and report progress
• Drive offer strategy and negotiations
• Nurture long-term networks of high-potential talent
• Partner on employer brand moments
• Coach hiring managers and interviewers on best practices

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting in deep-tech environments
• Proven strength sourcing and closing passive candidates for high-bar roles
• Skilled at narrative selling and objection handling
• Ability to translate business needs into clear hiring plans, profiles, and processes
• Experience collaborating across functions and influencing stakeholders at pace
• Expertise at hiring across Machine Learning and Research
• Fluency with structured interviewing, competency rubrics, and recruiting analytics
• Commitment to inclusive hiring and candidate experience

Benefits

• Competitive compensation aligned to the markets where team members are based
• Medical benefits
• Dental benefits
• Vision benefits
• Additional support programs

About the company

Arena is a platform for evaluating how AI models perform in the real world. The team consists of researchers, academics, builders, and creatives from UC Berkeley, Google, Stanford, and DeepMind.