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Senior Technical Recruiter

Decagon

Decagon

IT, People & HR
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Monday, September 2, 2024

About Decagon:

Decagon is building the most advanced conversational AI agents for the enterprise. Since starting the company, we've been on a tear, winning over customers like Eventbrite, ClassPass, Substack, Rippling, and BILT. Our AI agents provide a human-like customer support experience that enables enterprises to better serve their customers and efficiently manage their customer experience organizations.

We've raised $35M in Seed and Series funding from Accel, a16z, A*, Elad Gil, and notable angels, including the founders of Box, Airtable, Rippling, Okta, Lattice, and Klaviyo.

About the Role:

We’re looking for a senior technical recruiter to continue scaling our engineering team. We are growing quickly and you will work directly with the C-Suite. We hold our engineering team is exceptional, so we are looking for a truly exceptional recruiter.

You will:

  • Build a deep understanding of our business and culture in order to provide strategic thought partnership to teams that you support.

  • Drive and lead the full-lifecycle recruitment process from initial reach out to offer to close.

  • Develop relationships with your key stakeholders to ensure success in your role; including cross-functional partners

  • Leverage your recruiting metrics to inform your activity needs, which you'll interpret and present to hiring managers

  • Work closely with hiring teams across business and tech defining job descriptions, requirements, and interview processes.

  • Collaborate with recruiting coordinators, recruiters, and hiring partners to build a transparent interview experience.

  • Foster trust-based relationships with candidates, gaining a close understanding of their requirements and concerns.

  • Serve as a skilled problem solver, facilitator and coach in final negotiations.

  • Help ensure we build inclusive and diverse teams as we grow.

  • Manage our relationships with external contingency recruiting agencies.

  • Take full ownership of sourcing passive leads for your pipelines as needed.

  • Work in-person in our San Francisco office.

You have:

  • 4+ years of full lifecycle technical recruiting experience at high growth tech start-ups.

  • Ability to use data, both quantitative and qualitative, to influence hiring managers and leaders

  • Ability to distill complex information into a consumable and organized format with a focus on content, tone and structure

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

  • Excellent negotiation tactics, and market knowledge

  • Experience managing complex technical roles

  • Effective organization and stakeholder management of Engineering Managers+

  • Located in the Bay Area, can commute 5x per week to the San Francisco office.

Ideally you have:

  • Deep knowledge of AI technologies and trends

  • Strong understanding of technical roles, skills, and requirements in the AI field

  • Solutions oriented mindset

  • Examples of strong stakeholder partnerships

  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment

  • Experience with market research and competitive intelligence

Benefits:

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance

  • Take what you need vacation policy

  • Career growth opportunities within a fast-growing AI company