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Director of Technical Recruiting

Snorkel AI· 534 - People
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$170k - $300kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Director-level leader responsible for building and scaling Snorkel AI's technical recruiting function to support hyper-growth across Engineering, Research, Product, Forward Deployed Engineering, and Applied AI Engineering in a hybrid San Francisco, CA environment.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and scale Snorkel AI’s technical recruiting function across Engineering, Research, Product, FDE, and Applied AI Engineering.
  • Build, develop, and manage a high-performing team of technical recruiters, sourcers, and recruiting leaders as the company scales.
  • Own the overall technical recruiting strategy, including workforce planning, pipeline development, sourcing strategy, candidate experience, closing strategy, and capacity planning.
  • Partner with Engineering, Research, Product, and other technical leaders to translate business priorities into actionable hiring plans.
  • Create a world-class recruiting operating model balancing speed, quality, rigor, and candidate experience.
  • Develop creative sourcing strategies for competitive technical and AI talent markets.
  • Use data to identify bottlenecks, forecast hiring outcomes, and drive accountability across the recruiting process.
  • Establish and track key technical recruiting metrics (pipeline health, pass-through rates, time to fill, offer acceptance, source effectiveness, candidate experience, quality of hire).
  • Coach hiring managers and interview teams on effective assessment, structured interviewing, calibration, and closing.
  • Build scalable processes while remaining hands-on and close to the work.
  • Represent Snorkel AI externally as an employer of choice for world-class technical talent.

Qualifications

  • Experience building and leading technical recruiting teams in a hyper-growth startup environment (ideally 100 to 1,000 employees).
  • Deep experience recruiting for Engineering, Research, Product, Machine Learning, AI, Infrastructure, Data, Applied AI, or similar areas.
  • Strong knowledge of the Bay Area technical talent market and competitive AI/startup hiring landscape.
  • Track record of building recruiting teams, developing recruiters, and creating scalable practices.
  • Experience partnering with senior technical and business leaders on hiring strategy, prioritization, tradeoffs, and execution.
  • Strong data orientation with ability to use metrics to diagnose problems, drive decisions, and communicate progress.
  • Demonstrated creativity in sourcing, pipeline generation, talent mapping, and candidate engagement.
  • Strong executive presence and communication skills with ability to influence across technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity and building systems, processes, and teams where they may not yet exist.
  • High bar for talent, candidate experience, and operational excellence.

Skills

Required:Technical recruiting leadershipPeople managementStakeholder managementData-driven recruitingSourcing strategy
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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