Acryl Data
Senior Technical Recruiter
Job Summary
This role is for a senior technical recruiter responsible for establishing and managing the entire recruiting function for engineering roles. The candidate will build scalable processes, develop recruitment strategies, and partner with engineering leadership to meet hiring needs. The position involves creating metrics, pioneering best practices, and maintaining relationships within the engineering community. It offers benefits including insurance coverage, equity, remote work options, and a co-working space budget.
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Job Description
DataHub, built by Acryl Data, is an AI & Data Context Platform adopted by over 3,000 enterprises, including Apple, CVS Health, Netflix, and Visa. Innovated jointly with a thriving open-source community of 13,000+ members, DataHub's metadata graph provides in-depth context of AI and data assets with best-in-class scalability and extensibility.
The company's enterprise SaaS offering, DataHub Cloud, delivers a fully managed solution with AI-powered discovery, observability, and governance capabilities. Organizations rely on DataHub solutions to accelerate time-to-value from their data investments, ensure AI system reliability, and implement unified governance, enabling AI & data to work together and bring order to data chaos.
Position Overview
As Senior Engineering Recruiter, you'll own and architect our entire technical recruiting function from the ground up. We're looking for a self-starter who can immediately establish and execute our hiring strategy while building scalable processes that will support our rapid growth. You'll own the full-cycle recruitment process for engineering roles across all levels, partnering closely with hiring managers and leadership to develop and execute hiring strategies that align with our growth objectives.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, with a proven track record of successful engineering hires
- Demonstrated experience scaling engineering teams at early-stage startups
- Deep understanding of current engineering hiring trends, compensation frameworks, and talent markets
- Extensive experience recruiting across the engineering spectrum, from frontend to infrastructure roles
- Strong track record of building and implementing scalable recruiting practices and processes
- Experience working collaboratively with recruiting coordinators to optimize the hiring pipeline
- Exceptional attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities with precision
- Outstanding communication and relationship-building skills, with a talent for engaging passive candidates
Key Responsibilities
- Build and own the entire recruiting infrastructure from scratch, including processes, best practices, and metrics-tracking systems
- Establish comprehensive recruiting analytics and reporting frameworks to measure success and drive continuous improvement
- Partner with engineering leadership to understand hiring needs and develop targeted recruitment strategies
- Build and maintain relationships with top engineering talent through proactive sourcing and networking
- Design and implement scalable recruiting processes that can grow with the organization
- Manage complex hiring pipelines while maintaining exceptional candidate experience
- Provide data-driven insights to optimize recruitment strategies and improve hiring outcomes
- Mentor and collaborate with recruiting coordinators to ensure smooth interview processes
- Stay current with industry trends and best practices in engineering recruitment
- Work directly with candidates to schedule and coordinate interviews – as we scale we will bring on a full-time recruiting coordinator.
Impact You'll Have
- Define and implement the foundation of our technical recruiting function
- Shape the future of our engineering organization through strategic hiring
- Build and scale processes that will form the foundation of our talent acquisition strategy
- Create lasting relationships within the engineering community
- Drive improvements in key recruiting metrics while maintaining high hiring standards
We're seeking a candidate who can hit the ground running and take immediate ownership of building our recruiting function from the ground up. You'll be empowered to establish best practices, implement tracking systems, and create scalable processes that will support our growth trajectory.
If you're passionate about building great engineering teams and have a track record of scaling startups through strategic hiring, we'd love to hear from you.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Equity
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance (99% coverage for employees, 65% coverage for dependents; USA-based employees)
- Carrot Fertility Program (USA-based employees)
- Remote friendly
- Work from home and monthly co-working space budget
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