[Hiring] Senior Technical Recruiter @BetterUp

Role Description

As a Senior Technical Recruiter (Contract) at BetterUp, you'll partner with engineering, product, and design leadership to build forward-looking talent strategies and identify the brilliant, passionate people who will do the best work of their lives here. You bring a builder's mentality — someone who goes through the trenches, proactively navigates competing priorities, and takes extreme ownership of outcomes. Tenacious curiosity and a commitment to mastering your craft are what will make you thrive in this role.

• Partner with HR and senior hiring team members (Manager through VP+) to define and implement forward-looking talent strategies that address future talent needs.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to managers and leaders, influencing org-level and requisition-level talent acquisition decisions.
• Build creative, audacious hiring strategies across a portfolio of technical roles — and deliver on them.
• Set clear expectations with hiring teams through thorough follow-up and follow-through at every stage of the process.
• Source ferociously to find the best global talent for each role; build diverse, high-quality top-of-funnel pipelines.
• Drive a candidate assessment process that enables BetterUp to hire exceptional talent that's right for us.
• Embed DEIB sourcing and assessment practices into every search.
• Build memorable candidate relationships that authentically demonstrate BetterUp's employer value proposition.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of recruiting experience, ideally with both agency and in-house exposure; at least 4 years recruiting internally at a growth-stage startup.
• 4+ years of technical full-lifecycle recruiting for a variety of R&D roles, particularly product, design, and engineering.
• Proven experience managing VP+ hiring partner relationships as the primary recruiting point of contact.
• Track record of using recruiting data to identify opportunities to improve hiring process quality and assessment rigor.
• Experience closing candidates, articulating pre-IPO equity, and presenting competitive total compensation packages.
• Fluency with ATS platforms, LinkedIn Recruiter, boolean search, and creative sourcing strategies.

Requirements

• Drive functional strategy for AI adoption within talent acquisition, identifying transformational opportunities that create competitive advantage in how we source, assess, and close technical talent.
• Build scalable AI-powered recruiting workflows — from intelligent sourcing and candidate screening to automated scheduling and pipeline analytics — that fundamentally change how work gets done.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to TA leadership on AI capabilities, limitations, and strategic implications for technical hiring.
• Establish governance frameworks and best practices for responsible AI usage across the recruiting function.
• Demonstrate outsized impact through AI expertise and the ability to influence and upskill recruiting peers.

Benefits

• Access to BetterUp coaching; one for you and one for a friend or family member.
• A competitive compensation plan with opportunity for advancement.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Flexible paid time off.
• All federal/statutory holidays observed.
• 4 BetterUp Inner Workdays.
• 5 Volunteer Days to give back.
• Learning and Development stipend.
• Company-wide Summer & Winter breaks.
• Year-round charitable contribution of your choice on behalf of BetterUp.
• 401(k) self contribution.