[Hiring] Contract Technology Recruiter @Versant

Role Description

Versant is seeking an experienced Contract Technology Recruiter to help build critical technology, data, AI, and product capabilities across a rapidly evolving organization. This is a hands-on role for a recruiter who combines deep technical recruiting experience, advanced sourcing expertise, and strong consultative stakeholder management.

• Recruit specialized technology talent across software engineering, data engineering, AI/machine learning, analytics/data science, infrastructure/platform, and product, with searches ranging from individual contributor through senior leadership levels.
• Lead advanced sourcing strategies for difficult-to-find talent. Proactively identify and engage passive candidates using LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, Boolean/X-ray search, talent and market mapping, targeted communities, networking, referrals, and other creative sourcing approaches.
• Serve as a consultative talent advisor to hiring managers and senior leaders. Lead intake and calibration discussions around role requirements, must-have versus trainable skills, talent availability, target companies, level, compensation, and realistic hiring expectations.
• Bring market intelligence into hiring decisions. Use sourcing results, candidate feedback, competitive intelligence, compensation considerations, and talent-market data to challenge assumptions and recommend changes to search strategy or role requirements when appropriate.
• Own the full recruiting lifecycle from intake and sourcing through assessment, interview, offer, and close while managing approximately 15–25 concurrent requisitions and maintaining a strong candidate and stakeholder experience.
• Build strong stakeholder relationships across hiring managers, HR, Compensation, interview teams, and recruiting partners through proactive communication, clear expectations, frequent updates, and early identification of risks or challenges.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with significant experience recruiting complex technology talent.
• Exceptional advanced-sourcing capability and a demonstrated track record of identifying and engaging passive, specialized, and difficult-to-find technical candidates.
• Recruiting experience across multiple technical disciplines, particularly software engineering and data engineering, with exposure to AI/ML, analytics/data science, infrastructure/platform, and product talent.
• Enough technical recruiting fluency to understand and discuss skills such as SQL, Python, APIs, infrastructure, data architecture, AI, and machine learning and distinguish meaningful candidate experience beyond keyword matching.
• Strong consultative stakeholder-management skills, including the confidence to influence and appropriately challenge hiring managers using talent-market evidence and recruiting expertise.
• Ability to operate autonomously, prioritize across a high-volume portfolio, and bring a strong sense of urgency, ownership, and follow-through to difficult searches.
• Experience working in both agency and in-house recruiting environments is preferred; candidates with primarily in-house experience should demonstrate comparable sourcing rigor, pace, urgency, and results orientation.
• Strong communication, relationship-management, and organizational skills, with the ability to adapt quickly as priorities and hiring needs change.

Requirements

• Role may be performed remotely or from a Versant office in New York, NY; Englewood Cliffs, NJ; or Orlando, FL.
• Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the U.S. Contract duration and terms will be discussed during the interview process.

Benefits

• Compensation Range: $45-$75 USD / Hour