[Hiring] Senior Technical Recruiter @Babylist

Role Description

Babylist is hiring a Senior Technical Recruiter on a 9-month contract to own hiring across Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI. This is a fixed-term role, not a contract-to-perm pipeline. We're telling you that now so you can choose this for what it actually is. And what it actually is: real ownership at a company where 9 million families a year trust us to help them navigate one of the biggest transitions of their lives, and where the teams you'll hire for are building the product that makes that possible.

• Partner directly with our Head of TA and have genuine influence over hiring critical technical talent.
• Focus on a manageable req load to dive deep on hard problems.
• Shape sourcing strategy, push back on leveling, redesign interview loops, and run impactful debriefs.
• Join a TA team with low ego, high trust, and a genuine habit of teaching each other.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience with deep ownership of software engineering hiring.
• Track record of closing senior or highly specialized roles.
• Experience building or redesigning recruiting processes, including interview loops and sourcing strategies.
• Knowledge of the Canadian technical talent market, including comp benchmarks and talent distribution.
• Proven sourcing skills for hard-to-fill roles using multi-channel strategies.
• Consultative partner to hiring managers, bringing data and market perspective.
• Thrives in an environment where the playbook is still being written.
• Genuinely curious about AI in recruiting and its impact on sourcing and evaluation.

Requirements

• Own hiring outcomes across Engineering, Data, ML, and AI from intake through close.
• Build sourcing strategies tailored to the Canadian market.
• Lead structured intakes that define scope, leveling, and success criteria.
• Run debriefs that drive decisions and hold interviewers accountable.
• Identify and fix broken processes in hiring.
• Deliver a candidate experience that reflects Babylist's values.
• Contribute beyond own reqs, including interview training and employer branding.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary: Starting salary range is CAD $148,000 - $154,500.
• Generous PTO.
• Meaningful opportunities for career advancement.
• Exceptional management and tools to connect with colleagues.
• AI intentionally embedded in work processes.