Director of Technical Recruiting

The role

The Director of Technical Recruiting will build and lead the technical recruiting engine to support company growth. This leader will own the strategy, team, and execution for hiring talent across Engineering, Research, Product, FDE, and Applied AI Engineering.

What you will do

• Lead and scale the technical recruiting function.
• Build, develop, and manage a team of technical recruiters, sourcers, and recruiting leaders.
• Own technical recruiting strategy including workforce planning, pipeline development, and capacity planning.
• Partner with technical leaders to translate business priorities into hiring plans.
• Create a recruiting operating model balancing speed, quality, and candidate experience.
• Develop creative sourcing strategies for technical and AI talent markets.
• Use data to identify bottlenecks, improve conversion, and forecast outcomes.
• Establish and track key technical recruiting metrics.
• Coach hiring managers and interview teams on assessment and closing.
• Build scalable processes and represent Snorkel AI externally.

Required qualifications

• Experience building and leading technical recruiting teams in a hyper-growth startup environment, ideally scaling from 100 to 1,000 employees.
• Deep experience recruiting for technical functions such as Engineering, Research, Product, Machine Learning, AI, Infrastructure, Data, or Applied AI.
• Strong knowledge of the Bay Area technical talent market and competitive AI/startup hiring landscape.
• Track record of building recruiting teams, developing recruiters, and creating scalable recruiting practices.
• Experience partnering directly with senior technical and business leaders on hiring strategy and execution.
• Strong data orientation to use recruiting metrics to drive decisions.
• Demonstrated creativity in sourcing, pipeline generation, talent mapping, and candidate engagement.
• Strong executive presence and communication skills.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and building systems and processes.
• A high bar for talent, candidate experience, and operational excellence.

About the company

Snorkel AI is a frontier AI data lab that helps teams build the data and environments behind high-performing frontier and agentic AI. Founded out of the Stanford AI Lab in 2019, the company works with leading AI labs and enterprises.