Staff Recruiter - Commercial

The role

You will own hiring for the Commercial organization including Sales, Marketing, Business Development and Commercial Operations. You will act as a strategic talent advisor and run complex, hard-to-fill searches end to end.

What you will do

• Act as a strategic talent advisor to Commercial leaders and hiring managers.
• Lead intake meetings to define role success, profile, market reality and assessment plans.
• Manage hiring managers through the process and hold teams to timelines and feedback SLAs.
• Coach leaders on structured interviewing, assessment, compensation positioning and closing.
• Independently own a portfolio of Commercial searches from sourcing to onboarding handoff.
• Negotiate and close competitive offers and manage counteroffers.
• Design and execute proactive sourcing strategies for passive talent.
• Use Greenhouse as the source of truth for every search.
• Apply AI and modern recruiting tools to increase speed and quality.
• Use hiring metrics and market data to diagnose problems and guide decisions.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience.
• Experience in both agency or search-firm and in-house corporate recruiting.
• Deep experience recruiting Commercial talent.
• Proven ability to manage and influence senior leaders and hiring managers.
• Hands-on fluency with recruiting technology and AI tools.
• Advanced Greenhouse (or comparable ATS), LinkedIn Recruiter, and Google Workspace.
• Strong command of recruiting metrics and compensation data.
• Experience designing or rolling out programs that improve hiring.
• Experience building diverse candidate slates and inclusive hiring processes.
• Working knowledge of employment law and compliance as it applies to recruiting.
• Sharp judgment, high attention to detail and a strong sense of urgency.
• BA/BS degree or equivalent combination of education and experience

Nice to have

• Ideally in biotech, life sciences, diagnostics or pharma.
• Experience building commercial teams from the ground up, such as a new territory, product launch or market expansion.
• Familiarity with ISO 13485 or other regulated quality environments.

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Generous benefits package

About the company

Twist Bioscience synthesizes genes from scratch, known as “writing” DNA. Their silicon-based DNA Synthesis Platform provides precision in fields such as health care, agriculture, industrial chemicals and data storage.