Lead Technical Recruiter

September 2, 2026
Remote, US
$160,000 – $190,000/yr

Who you are

  • 10+ years experience as a full-cycle technical recruiter supporting roles such as software engineering, security, data and AI/ML or related functions
  • Experience recruiting in high-growth, startup, technology, cybersecurity, or similarly competitive environments
  • Strong experience partnering with senior stakeholders, acting as a true business partner
  • Sourcing expertise, including creative use of LinkedIn Recruiter, Juicebox, Gem, referrals, talent mapping, and AI-enabled recruiting tools
  • Experience using recruiting metrics and reporting to diagnose funnel performance, improve pipeline quality, and strengthen hiring outcomes
  • Clear, compelling communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to engage candidates and stakeholders across technical and nontechnical audiences
  • Experience hiring across a range of seniority levels, from experienced individual contributors through senior leadership
  • Background recruiting for remote or distributed teams across the United States and Canada
  • Experience supporting early-stage or scaling companies where each hire is closely tied to company-level priorities and outcomes
  • Familiarity with cybersecurity, insurance, risk management, SaaS, or other complex technical and regulated industries

What the job involves

  • As a Lead Technical Recruiter, you will own hiring across Engineering, Security, Data, and adjacent technical functions
  • You’ll drive searches from HM kickoff through sourcing, interviewing, offer negotiation, and close, serving as a strategic partner to our most senior org leaders
  • Being a Lead on the team, expect full autonomy to deliver results
  • This role combines hands-on recruiting excellence with strong business partnership
  • You’ll build trusted relationships with leaders at multiple levels, translate org priorities into effective hiring strategies, and use recruiting data to improve pipeline health, candidate quality, process effectiveness, and hiring-manager rapport
  • We’re a nimble Recruiting Team that uses AI and tech daily to automate manual work and focus on what matters most: strong relationships, efficient and structured interview processes, and an exceptional candidate experience
  • You’ll be expected to move quickly at the top of funnel, operate with sound judgment, and bring a high level of ownership to a range of concurrent searches
  • 30 vs 60 vs 90 Day Onboarding Plan
  • 30 days: meet with your key stakeholders, collaborate with our Recruiting Team, understand headcount demand, navigate our systems, kickoff searches, run interviews and workshop your Coalition pitch
  • 60 days: get your 1st candidate to offer, juggle concurrent searches, zero-in on ideal talent profiles, perfect your sourcing rhythm and build agents to automate work
  • 90 days: running with full autonomy, closed a couple roles, own headcount strategy, developing trust with stakeholders and taking on more responsibility outside core recruitment workflows
  • Own end-to-end recruiting for eng, security, data, and related roles, including intake, sourcing, process management, comp strategy & closing
  • Partner with leaders to understand business priorities, define candidate profiles, establish clear success criteria, and create structured, efficient interview plans
  • Use tools such as LinkedIn Recruiter, Gem, Juicebox, Greenhouse, Glean, and other relevant tools to find great people and improve workflows
  • Deliver clear, compelling storytelling about Coalition’s mission, products, technical challenges, and opportunities for impact to candidates with varied backgrounds and levels of experience
  • Lead offer processes for complex technical and functional hires, including compensation alignment, offer strategy, negotiation, closing, and transition to onboarding
  • Use recruiting metrics and reporting to evaluate pipeline health, sourcing effectiveness, funnel conversion, candidate quality, time in process, and hiring-manager engagement

Benefits

  • Paid parental leave
  • 401k plan
  • Stock option plan
  • Open vacation days
  • Flexible working hours
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Health insurance