Senior Recruiter, R4R
Seattle · 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
- Seattle · 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, responsible for owning the Recruiting for Recruiting function.
- Your mission is to own the end-to-end hiring process for our recruiting organization itself by sourcing, assessing, and closing the Recruiters and Recruiting Coordinators who will become the backbone of our hiring engine across every division.
- This is a uniquely meta role where you need to be an exceptional recruiter to credibly evaluate other recruiters and set the quality bar for the people who set the quality bar for the rest of the company.
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 — ensuring a world-class candidate experience.
- Develop and execute creative sourcing strategies to build robust pipelines for TA talent, requiring 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 not just what they've done, but how they think about 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, team composition gaps, and specific recruiting profiles.
- Act as a talent advisor for TA hiring, using market data on recruiter compensation, availability by specialization, and competitive intelligence to shape job descriptions, calibrate expectations, 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 IC3 and IC4 recruiter profiles or scoping a Recruiting Coordinator role as a sourcer hybrid.
- Contribute to the TA Center of Excellence by sharing market intelligence on recruiting talent trends, compensation benchmarks, and sourcing strategies that work for hiring recruiters specifically.
- Mentor junior recruiters on the team regarding recruiting craft, judgment calls, interview technique, and stakeholder management, and uphold 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: track pipeline metrics, use conversion data to diagnose search health, and present market intelligence to influence decisions.
- 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 and relationship-builders.
- 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
- Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees
- Supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next
- Highly competitive equity grants included in the majority of full-time offers
Workplace
- Role is located in Seattle, WA; Costa Mesa, CA; Boston, MA; or Washington, DC.
