Contract Recruiter
About the role
Contract recruiter to support a surge in hiring at Optery. This 3-month contract (initial) involves sourcing, screening, and closing top-tier talent across multiple departments, working 20-30 hours per week in a remote US-based role.
Responsibilities
- Manage the full-cycle recruiting process for a variety of complex and niche roles.
- Partner with hiring managers to align on hiring needs and develop recruiting strategies.
- Provide a high-touch candidate experience.
- Continuously improve our recruiting practices, tools, and workflows, using data to inform decisions.
- Uphold and elevate our talent bar across all roles.
- Source candidates via LinkedIn and other platforms to build a strong top-of-funnel pipeline.
- Screen resumes and conduct video screens to assess fit, experience, and communication.
- Coordinate and schedule interviews across time zones using Ashby.
- Partner with hiring managers to understand role requirements, candidate profiles, and hiring goals.
- Maintain clear candidate records and pipeline tracking in Ashby.
- Help optimize recruiting workflows and the candidate experience.
- Communicate with clarity and professionalism to both candidates and internal stakeholders.
- Provide ad hoc support for recruiting operations by assisting with various hiring tasks as needed.
- Can ramp quickly with limited context
- Genuinely curious about technology and can hold credible conversations with experienced candidates about the roles you’re hiring for
- Operate with urgency and strong judgment in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
- Highly organized, keep your ATS clean, and communicate proactively with hiring managers and candidates
Qualifications
- 4+ years of recruiting experience in ideally a high-growth startup or agency supporting tech clients
- Demonstrated success in hiring for complex and niche roles with high hiring standards
- Own full-cycle recruiting for a set of open roles, from sourcing through offer close
- Build and manage high-quality pipelines of passive technical candidates via LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, Ashby, and outbound outreach
- Partner with hiring managers to calibrate on role requirements and technical profiles quickly
- Conduct phone screens and coordinate interview loops with minimal oversight
- Maintain clean pipeline data and provide regular updates on funnel health, outreach performance, and time-to-hire
- Advise on offer strategy and help close competitive candidates in a tight market
- Comfortable working independently in a remote setting
- Proficient with LinkedIn Recruiter and Ashby
- Excellent resume screening and candidate vetting skills
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills — clear, thoughtful, and professional
- Bonus: Experience recruiting in the cybersecurity industry
Skills
About Optery
Opt out software that removes your private info from the internet
Optery is automated opt out software, and we serve individuals, families and businesses. With Optery, you can remove yourself from hundreds of data brokers that are posting and selling your home address, phone number, email and other private information on the internet. Optery received the “Editors’ Choice” award by PCMag as the most outstanding product in the personal data removal category in 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025, the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards for Attack Surface Management, Digital Footprint Management, and Employee Privacy Protection in 2024 and 2025, Cyber Defense Magazine’s Top InfoSec Innovator and Best Attack Surface Management awards in 2024 and 2025, the 2025 Fortress Cybersecurity Award for Privacy Enhancing Technologies, and Fast Company’s Next Big Things in Tech award for security and privacy in 2023. In 2025, Optery was also listed by Business Insider as one of 30 early-stage startups most likely to become a unicorn. Optery prevents phishing and social engineering, identity theft and fraud, online stalking and harassment, ransomware, doxxing, and prevents people's private information from showing up in Google search results. Anyone can create a free account to receive a personalized Exposure Report with live screenshots summarizing where your information is being posted and sold online. Optery then provides free tools for self-service removals, or you can upgrade to a paid plan, and Optery will remove the profiles for you. Optery for Business serves enterprises removing personal information from the internet for their employees and executives, and offers an API enabling application developers to embed data broker scanning and removal technology into their applications.
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