Lead Technical Recruiter

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Lead technical recruiting strategy for Zapier, an automation software company, across Americas engineering and product teams. Using AI, market intelligence, and scalable processes to improve high-impact hiring.

Responsibilities:

  • Advise hiring managers, directors, and executives on talent strategy and complex technical hiring decisions
  • Drive talent intelligence and market mapping for an entire department or vertical
  • Use AI to design repeatable workflows, improve recruiting outputs, and increase team efficiency
  • Build future-looking recruiting plans, including compensation analysis and competitive positioning recommendations
  • Partner across recruiting, operations, and hiring teams to solve process bottlenecks and improve hiring effectiveness
  • Lead AI transformation, process improvement, and high-impact projects improving candidate experience, stakeholder satisfaction, and recruiting systems at scale
  • Mentor teammates through hands-on problem-solving and raise the technical recruiting team’s overall capability
  • Lead talent brand initiatives, including events, platform presence, and targeted attraction campaigns aligned to Zapier’s EVP

Requirements:

  • Significant, senior-level full-cycle technical recruiting experience
  • Ownership of hiring strategy beyond personal requisitions or for complex pipelines
  • Experience across engineering disciplines such as Applied AI, Software Engineering, Infrastructure, and Security is ideal
  • Strong operational and systems thinking connecting recruiting to business outcomes
  • Experience creating talent plans involving compensation analysis, competitive positioning, and organization-level market mapping
  • Ability to build trust with and influence senior leaders and talent acquisition peers
  • High AI fluency or learning mindset, with AI used as a core part of work
  • Ability to drive results without formal authority, mentor and coach peers, and hold stakeholders accountable
  • Ability to adapt opinions based on data, experience, outcomes, and new context
  • Resourcefulness and comfort operating with ambiguity
  • Ability to advocate for diverse talent pools and build inclusive interview processes at team or department level
  • Must be authorized to work from the chosen home location; Zapier does not sponsor visas or transfers
  • Education is not a requirement

Benefits:

  • Equity
  • Bonus
  • All-remote work
  • Flexible country-based remote work from almost any country where Zapier can employ teammates
  • Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities
  • Transparent hiring process with application status updates targeted within seven days
  • Option to opt out of the Ezra AI interview assistant with alternate options and equal consideration