Contract Tech Recruiter: AI/Data Talent & Sourcing Expert

Versant; New York (NY); On-site; USD 62,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

Versant is seeking an experienced Contract Technology Recruiter to help build critical technology, data, AI, and product capabilities across a rapidly evolving organization. This hands-on role requires deep technical recruiting experience, advanced sourcing expertise, and strong consultative stakeholder management.

You will recruit specialized and difficult-to-find talent while serving as a trusted advisor to hiring leaders—helping calibrate requirements and develop effective strategies for

Qualifications

• 7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with significant experience recruiting complex technology talent.
• Exceptional advanced-sourcing capability and a demonstrated track record of identifying and engaging passive, specialized, and difficult-to-find technical candidates.
• Experience across multiple technical disciplines, particularly software engineering and data engineering, with exposure to AI/ML, analytics/data science, infrastructure/platform, and product talent.
• Enough technical recruiting fluency to discuss skills such as SQL, Python, APIs, infrastructure, data architecture, AI, and machine learning and distinguish meaningful candidate experience beyond keyword matching.
• Strong consultative stakeholder-management skills, including the confidence to influence and appropriately challenge hiring managers using talent-market evidence and recruiting expertise.
• Ability to operate autonomously, prioritize across a high-volume portfolio, and bring a strong sense of urgency, ownership, and follow-through to difficult searches.
• Experience working in both agency and in-house recruiting environments is preferred; candidates with primarily in-house experience should demonstrate comparable sourcing rigor, pace, urgency, and results orientation.
• Strong communication, relationship-management, and organizational skills, with the ability to adapt quickly as priorities and hiring needs change.

Responsibilities

• Recruit specialized technology talent across software engineering, data engineering, AI/ML, analytics/data science, infrastructure/platform, and product, from IC roles to senior leadership.
• Lead advanced sourcing strategies for difficult-to-find talent using LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, Boolean/X-ray search, market mapping, targeted communities, and referrals.
• Serve as a consultative talent advisor to hiring managers and senior leaders; lead intake and calibration discussions on role requirements, must-have vs. trainable skills, and compensation.
• Bring market intelligence into hiring decisions; use data to challenge assumptions and adjust strategy when appropriate.
• Own the full recruiting lifecycle from intake and sourcing through interview, offer, and close for 15–25 requisitions concurrently.
• Build strong stakeholder relationships across hiring managers, HR, Compensation, interview teams, and recruiting partners.

Skills

Advanced sourcing

Full-cycle recruiting

Stakeholder management

Technical recruiting

Agency & in-house experience

Tools

LinkedIn Recruiter

GitHub

Boolean/X-ray search

Talent mapping

Job description

Versant is seeking an experienced Contract Technology Recruiter to help build critical technology, data, AI, and product capabilities across a rapidly evolving organization. This hands-on role requires deep technical recruiting experience, advanced sourcing expertise, and strong consultative stakeholder management.

You will recruit specialized and difficult-to-find talent while serving as a trusted advisor to hiring leaders—helping calibrate requirements and develop effective strategies for