Senior Tech Recruiter

The role

You will own full-cycle recruiting for senior and hard-to-fill technical roles. You will partner with technical leaders to hire engineers, researchers, and technical leaders.

What you will do

• Own full-cycle recruiting for senior and hard-to-fill technical roles
• Partner with technical hiring managers to define role requirements, candidate profiles, and interview processes
• Build talent maps of top engineering and ML teams in the region and internationally
• Proactively source passive senior candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, technical communities, referrals, and AI sourcing tools
• Screen candidates for technical depth, seniority, motivation, and product impact
• Lead offer conversations and close senior candidates
• Advise hiring teams on talent availability, compensation, and market conditions
• Keep pipelines, scorecards, and role context accurate and up to date in Ashby
• Share sourcing strategies and market insights with other recruiters on the team

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of technical recruiting experience, including senior and leadership-level hires
• Proven track record hiring senior Software Engineers, ML Engineers, Researchers, or Data professionals
• Solid understanding of modern engineering and ML teams, including infrastructure, model training, data systems, and production environments
• Strong sourcing skills with experience engaging passive senior candidates
• Proven ability to close candidates in competitive offer situations
• Ability to earn the trust of senior technical leaders as a recruiting partner
• Experience using Ashby and LinkedIn Recruiter
• Excellent written and verbal English and Russian

Nice to have

• Experience hiring for AI, ML, generative media, or high-growth startups
• Existing network among engineers and researchers in Kazakhstan, the CIS, or Europe
• Experience using AI sourcing and automation tools
• Experience hiring for security or other niche technical profiles

About the company

Higgsfield AI is a generative AI company building AI-powered video creation and next-generation creative tools.