Principal Technical Recruiter

San Francisco Officefull timeOn Site

Apply on Employer Site

senior

$165k–$200k

H1B: yes

Opentable Principal Technical Recruiter at OpenTable leads strategic technical talent acquisition and partners with senior leadership to shape workforce strategy. This role combines executive-level candidate experience with hands-on sourcing and complex offer negotiations.

Responsibilities

Partner directly with senior leadership, including Directors, VPs, SVPs, to design baseline hiring criteria, forecast workforce needs, and provide data-driven advisory on competitive market conditions.
Execute advanced sourcing and market mapping strategies to build robust pipelines of passive, high-caliber talent across software engineering, infrastructure, data science, and research domains.
Lead complex offer negotiations and construct competitive compensation packages while delivering a white-glove candidate experience from outreach to onboarding.
Establish scalable hiring frameworks, standardized interview rubrics, and structured candidate evaluation processes across the broader engineering organization.
Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives within the technical recruitment pipeline to ensure fair and comprehensive sourcing strategies.
Upskill and mentor junior recruiters and sourcers, establishing best practices and raising the overall standard of technical talent acquisition across the team.

Qualification

Ability to work in a hybrid model

Required

8+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, ideally in-house within high-growth or enterprise technology environments.
Proven track record of advising and influencing senior executive stakeholders using market data, pass-through rates, and pipeline health metrics.
Deep technical acumen with a strong functional understanding of software engineering, infrastructure, data science, or specialized research landscapes.
Demonstrated expertise in navigating and executing complex, high-level offer negotiations and compensation structuring.
Ability to work in a hybrid model, commuting to our San Francisco office 2 days per week.

Preferred

Experience designing and standing up various hiring initiatives and inclusive sourcing programs within technical organizations.
Proven experience establishing standardized interview rubrics and scalable talent assessment frameworks.
Background in direct mentorship or formal coaching of talent acquisition team members and sourcers.
Expertise in advanced recruitment analytics and building data dashboards to track talent acquisition performance.