Senior Technical Recruiter

Role Overview

Join Zapier as a Senior Technical Recruiter in a remote-first team. You’ll own the full-cycle recruitment process, source strong technical candidates, and use data and technology to improve hiring outcomes—while contributing to the team’s AI transformation.

Key Missions

• Manage end-to-end recruiting from sourcing through offer acceptance/closing.
• Find and/or build new talent sources, leveraging tools like LinkedIn and innovative sourcing methods.
• Improve recruiting operations via experimentation and innovation in hiring workflows.

Responsibilities

• Source new talent and run a best-in-class candidate experience.
• Use data to track pipeline health and set/align expectations with hiring managers (e.g., time-to-hire and time-to-fill).
• Partner with hiring managers and interview teams to advise on recruiting strategy and process design that empowers better hiring decisions.
• Champion diversity hiring and inclusive interview practices, actively working to reduce bias in sourcing, screening, and interviews.
• Drive workstreams with autonomy while managing up and communicating effectively in an asynchronous remote environment.

Requirements

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting for technical roles in a software/technology company.
• Experience evaluating candidates for a range of technical and product roles.
• Strong ability to vet technical talent to achieve high pass-through rates through hiring-manager screens.
• Data-driven mindset (pipeline health, KPI management).
• High AI fluency: using AI in recruiting work and knowing where human judgment remains essential.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and change; resourceful and proactive.
• Strong candidate-experience orientation.

Nice to Haves

• Familiarity with Zapier ("Big plus if you’re familiar with Zapier").
• Interest/experience recruiting Applied AI, Software Engineering, Data, and Site Reliability roles (including hard-to-fill positions).