Staff Technical Recruiter

Overstory; Portugal; Remote; EUR 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mission-driven work

Flexible work environment

Remote budget

Educational budget

Career development

Job summary

Overstory is seeking a Staff Technical Recruiter to build and scale our technical teams. You will own end-to-end recruiting for hard-to-fill roles, partnering with leadership to define roles, design hiring strategies, and close offers.

This role operates in a global, remote-first environment and requires a mature, mission-driven recruiter who can navigate multiple geographies with ease. You will influence hiring decisions, build scalable systems, and champion our values as we grow.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of technical recruiting experience in high-growth tech startups.
• Proven track record closing hard-to-find technical talent (e.g., ML engineers or similar).
• Fast-moving startup culture with multi-hat responsibilities.
• Trusted hiring partner that influences decisions effectively.
• Tech-savvy and able to apply AI to recruitment.
• Experience building scalable recruiting systems and tooling.
• Experience hiring across multiple geographies in remote-first environments.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting for technical roles from definition to offer.
• Partner with hiring managers and leadership to shape role requirements and strategies.
• Build and maintain candidate pipelines through creative sourcing and networking.
• Guide candidates through the interview process across teams/timezones.
• Develop systems, branding and networks to streamline recruiting as we scale.
• Use data and feedback to optimize hiring practices and outcomes.
• Act as a culture ambassador and trusted partner to reflect Overstory's values.
• Support the people team across priorities in a lean, fast-paced environment.

Skills

Technical recruiting

Full-cycle recruiting

Stakeholder management

Remote collaboration

Tools

LinkedIn Recruiter

ATS (Applicant Tracking System)

AI in recruiting

Job description

The role

As a Staff Technical Recruiter at Overstory, you'll build the team that brings our mission to life. Every hire you make directly shapes the ability to execute on our goals in our growing and scaling company. This is a hands‑on role with great strategic impact. You'll balance delivering excellent day‑to‑day recruiting operations with shipping new features that make us ready to scale.

You'll own full-cycle recruiting for technical roles, partnering closely with hiring managers and leadership from the earliest stages of role definition through sourcing, interviewing, and closing offers. Sometimes you'll own other roles, e.g. product or go‑to‑market, depending on business needs. With every role you hire for, you champion our values and attract mission‑driven builders who are energized by hard problems and meaningful impact.

You'll join a People team of five, where everyone is senior, trusted, and empowered to drive decisions. Together with our other Technical Recruiter, you’ll build and refine the recruiting motion that helps us scale: from systems and data to brand and community. With a global team spread across 11 countries working remotely, you'll navigate local complexities with ease while keeping the overall candidate experience feeling unmistakably like Overstory. Together, we nurture a culture where everyone can be their best selves — building a workplace people love, and keeping the way we work simple, effective, and above all: human‑centric.

What You’ll Do

• Own full‑cycle recruiting with a focus on technical roles, from role definition and sourcing through interviewing, coordinating and offer negotiation
• Partner closely with hiring managers and leadership to understand team needs, shape role requirements, and design effective hiring strategies
• Build and maintain strong candidate pipelines through creative sourcing, networking, and application review
• Guide candidates through a thoughtful interview process, coordinating seamlessly across teams and timezones to ensure a positive experience
• Build and refine the systems, processes, brand and network that make recruiting incrementally easier as we scale.
• Use data and feedback to continuously optimize hiring practices and improve outcomes
• Act as a culture ambassador and trusted partner, bringing in mission‑driven builders who reflect Overstory's values
• Stay flexible and pitch in across the people team as needed in our lean, fast‑paced environment

About You

• 8+ years of technical recruiting experience in high‑growth tech startups
• Proven track record closing hard‑to‑find technical talent, including roles like machine learning engineers or other specialized positions
• You thrive in a fast‑moving, wear‑multiple‑hats startup culture. You experiment, iterate, and take initiative to solve problems.
• You’re a trusted hiring partner that influences hiring decisions effectively
• You’re tech savvy and know how to apply AI to make recruiting more effective
• You have experience building the systems and tooling to scale recruiting
• You have worked in international, remote‑first environments and have experience hiring in multiple geographies
• You’re passionate about our climate mission
• You’re based in the UK, Europe or the East Coast of North America

What You Get

• To be part of truly mission‑driven work that reduces wildfires, protects earth’s natural resources and helps solve our climate crisis.
• Flexible working environment with a lot of autonomy. We build our work days around our lives, not the other way around.
• Other benefits like a remote working budget, an educational budget and time to develop new skills.
• To be surrounded by an excellent, vibrant, smart team who have each other’s back and believe in a culture of openness, tolerance and respect.
• Equity and a competitive salary.