Who you are
- 5–10+ years of recruiting experience, with 3+ years owning senior technical roles end-to-end
- Proven experience hiring: Senior Software Engineers, Platform / Infra / SRE Engineers, ML- or data-adjacent roles bonus if you’ve also hired: Product Managers, Designers etc
- Track record of closing senior engineers in competitive markets
- Experience operating in high-bar, founder-led or early-stage environments
- Strong technical recruiting judgment — able to spot misalignment early and maintain a low false-positive rate
- Calm, credible communicator who can sell Pallet to engineers without hype
- Comfortable with ambiguity, high ownership, and accountability for outcomes
- Low ego, collaborative, and motivated by impact rather than process for process’s sake
What the job involves
- Pallet is hiring our first Lead Technical Recruiter, a high-impact IC role with true ownership over how we build our engineering organization
- As we scale from ~100 to 200+ employees, engineering hiring is one of the most critical levers in the business
- This role will own technical recruiting end-to-end — partnering closely with our Head of Talent, engineering leadership, and founders to hire across Product, Platform, FDE, and AI/ML roles
- This is not a support function. Recruiting at Pallet is a strategic partner to the business. You’ll be embedded with engineering leadership, deeply understand our product and technical roadmap, and play a direct role in shaping the team that builds our AI agents. The impact of this role will be immediate, visible, and long-lasting
- True 0→1 ownership at a company that takes hiring seriously. You’ll be the first dedicated Senior Technical Recruiter at Pallet, with real influence and partnership — recruiting is treated as a core business function, not a support role
- High-bar, white-glove technical hiring. Deep ownership, and strong trust with engineering leadership and senior candidates. This role is optimized for judgment and quality, not volume
- Hands-on ownership, not resource constrained. You’ll personally source and close top engineering talent, with budget for modern recruiting tools, selective agency support, and light shared sourcing resources available as needed
- Career-defining impact at a Series B AI company. You’ll help set the foundation for technical recruiting as Pallet scales, with meaningful equity upside, a strong engineering brand already in place, and the opportunity to shape what great looks like long-term
- Own and close senior, high-bar engineering roles across Product, Platform, FDE, and AI/ML in competitive SF / NYC markets
- Make your first hire within ~45 days and sustain ~2 high-quality engineering hires per month thereafter
- Run end-to-end searches: scoping ambiguous roles, sourcing, pipeline management, interview coordination, and closing
- Protect and scale Pallet’s technical hiring bar through high-signal screening, thoughtful debriefs, and pushback when quality is slipping
- Build trust with senior engineering candidates through a white-glove candidate experience and calm, credible selling
- Diagnose pipeline or close issues using data and candidate feedback, and adapt strategy in real time
- Act as a true partner to engineering leadership — bringing structure, judgment, and clarity without needing hand-holding
- Increase leverage across the technical recruiting system while remaining hands-on — personally sourcing for hard roles, partnering effectively with sourcers, and strengthening referral quality and conversion
- Our Recruiting Stack:
- Greenhouse for ATS
- Juicebox, Covey, LinkedIn Recruiter, LinkedIn InMails (400 a month), Clay
- Grammarly Pro, for polished writing
- Brighthire for call recordings and Granola/Wispr for note-taking
- Modern Loop for easy scheduling
- Calendly, Notion, GSuite, Slack, etc
- Claude AI Recruiting Brain: we have Greenhouse, ModernLoop and Brighthire connected so you can build your own recruiting solutions
The application process
- Chat with Grace, Head of Talent- 30 mins
- Short Take Home Assignment - 2-3 days to complete
- Final Interviews - ~ 3 hours of interviews at our office in SF
- We move fast, and we’ll keep you informed at every stage of the process
Benefits
- 🩺 Health, Vision and Dental benefits
- 🏝️ Flexible PTO
- ➕ Life Insurance and Accidental Insurance
- ❤️🩹 Short-Term Disability Coverage
- 💸 Equity for all staff
- 🪜 401k option; helping you save for the future
- 📚 Yearly learning and development stipend
- 🚌 Commuter benefits if you live in SF
- 🚘 Fully covered uber ride home if you ever have to work late in the office
- 🏡 Remote office home stipend
- 🥤 Monthly happy hours; our last one was a Golden Gate Park BBQ
- 🍲 Company paid dinners on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the office
- 🎉 Annual Company Offsites; our last one was in Sonoma Wine Country 🍷