Senior Recruiter, R4R
Costa Mesa · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-12) · USD 146,000-194,000 · 5-8 years experience · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Oct 6, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 5-8 years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- Costa Mesa · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-12)
- Salary
- USD 146,000-194,000 · Base salary
About the role
- We are looking for a Senior Recruiter to join our rapidly growing team in Costa Mesa, CA, Seattle, WA, Boston, MA or Washington, DC, owning the Recruiting for Recruiting function.
- As a Senior Recruiter on our Talent Acquisition team, you are the person who builds the team that builds the teams, owning the end-to-end hiring process for our recruiting organization itself.
- This is a uniquely meta role where you will own the full recruiting lifecycle for Recruiter and Recruiting Coordinator roles across divisions while serving as the quality bar for the function.
Responsibilities
- Own the full recruiting lifecycle (with sourcing support) for Recruiter and Recruiting Coordinator roles across divisions — from sourcing and screening through offer negotiation and close.
- Develop and execute creative sourcing strategies to build robust pipelines for TA talent using differentiated outreach.
- Manage the interview process end-to-end: conduct in-depth screens that assess recruiting craft, prepare candidates and interviewers, and facilitate calibrated debriefs.
- Assess candidates against our competency framework — evaluating sourcing, stakeholder management, data, and candidate experience.
- Partner closely with TA leadership and hiring managers across divisions to understand current and future recruiting capacity needs and team composition gaps.
- Act as a talent advisor for TA hiring, using market data on recruiter compensation, availability by specialization, and competitive intelligence to shape job descriptions and influence headcount planning.
- Provide transparent, regular updates on pipeline health, search progress, and market conditions to stakeholders.
- Advise on role design and leveling for TA positions, helping hiring managers distinguish between recruiter profiles or source-hybrid roles.
- Contribute to the TA Center of Excellence by sharing market intelligence on recruiting talent trends, compensation benchmarks, and sourcing strategies.
- Mentor junior recruiters on the team regarding recruiting craft, judgment calls, and stakeholder management, while maintaining data integrity in our ATS/CRM.
Requirements
- 5-8+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
- Direct experience recruiting recruiters, recruiting coordinators, sourcing specialists, or other TA/People Operations roles.
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex, senior-level searches and calibrate candidates against a competency-based framework.
- Track record of mentoring junior team members on recruiting craft, interview technique, and stakeholder management.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to advise, push back on, and build trust with hiring managers across levels.
- A data-informed mindset to track pipeline metrics, use conversion data to diagnose search health, and present market intelligence.
- Ability to operate with a high sense of urgency and bias for action while maintaining quality and candidate experience.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to build rapport with candidates who are expert communicators.
- Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience recruiting in the defense, aerospace, or a related high-tech industry where cleared talent and mission-driven positioning are factors.
- Experience hiring for TA roles across multiple specializations (technical recruiting, G&A, executive, cleared, coordination/operations).
- Experience working in a matrixed or dual-reporting organizational structure.
- Demonstrated ability to improve TA hiring processes — interview design, assessment frameworks, onboarding — not just execute them.
- Familiarity with recruiting competency models and the ability to articulate what “great” looks like at each level of the TA career ladder.
Benefits
- Highly competitive equity grants included in the majority of full-time offers
- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees supporting health, recovery, and whatever comes next
Workplace
- Position is located in Costa Mesa, Seattle, Boston, or Washington, DC.
Skills
- ATS
- CRM
