Senior Technical Recruiter

The role

This person will lead full-cycle searches for senior engineering leaders within Applied Foundations. They will partner with engineering leaders to define roles, develop talent maps, and manage complex closing strategies.

What you will do

• Lead full-cycle searches for senior engineering leaders across Applied Foundations.
• Partner with hiring leaders to define role scope, leadership expectations, technical requirements, and outcomes.
• Develop talent maps and targeted search strategies through sourcing, referrals, and market research.
• Engage passive leadership candidates through outreach and conversations.
• Partner with hiring teams to assess leadership capabilities.
• Advise senior stakeholders using market intelligence and search evidence.
• Own complex closing strategies involving compensation and equity considerations.
• Maintain a rigorous operating rhythm across searches.
• Strengthen leadership recruiting practices by sharing insights and improving assessment approaches.

Required qualifications

• Substantial technical recruiting experience.
• Demonstrated track record of personally owning and closing engineering leadership searches.
• Ability to evaluate leadership scope and partner with hiring managers.
• Ability to build credibility with senior engineering leaders and offer recommendations.
• Experience managing complex offers and understanding compensation influences.
• Ability to combine strategic judgment with sourcing and execution skills.
• Ability to learn unfamiliar technical domains quickly.
• Ability to communicate clearly and handle sensitive information.

Nice to have

• Experience in executive search
• In-house leadership recruiting
• Comparable environment requiring targeted research, senior stakeholder partnership, and discretion

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They seek to safely deploy AI through their products.