Founding Technical Recruiter

Allocate; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Allocate is hiring its first dedicated, in-house technical recruiter to own the full cycle for engineering, product, and design. You will partner directly with founders, the CTO, and engineering leaders to translate hiring needs into structured processes across teams and build scalable recruiting operations.

You’ll design interview frameworks, lead outbound sourcing with advanced Boolean searches, and collaborate with external agencies when needed to help Allocate scale its talent, culture, and

Qualifications

• 10+ years in talent acquisition with ownership of recruiting across engineering, product, data/research, design.
• Experience designing and deploying structured interviewing frameworks from scratch.
• Proven outbound sourcing for hard-to-find candidates and market mapping.
• Experience evaluating AI-powered sourcing tools and expanding lean recruiting teams.
• Comfort coordinating external recruiting partners alongside internal pipelines.
• Track record building employer branding and proactive candidate pipelines.
• Knowledge of scalable talent operations, workflows and reporting.
• Ability to operate as a function of one in an early-stage environment.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting across engineering, product, and design—from scope to close.
• Design structured interview processes, guides, question banks, and scorecards.
• Coach hiring managers to improve interview quality and consistency.
• Manage external recruiting partners and agencies as needed.
• Own advanced outbound sourcing and access passive candidates.
• Build sourcing strategy and evaluate AI-powered tools to boost efficiency.
• Shape Allocate’s talent/employer brand and candidate materials.
• Collaborate with the People team to optimize workflows and reporting.
• Champion inclusive, high-integrity hiring throughout the process.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Structured interviewing

Outbound sourcing

Boolean search

AI-powered sourcing tools

Agency management

Employer branding

Talent operations

Diversity & inclusion

Independent contributor

Tools

ATS

Job description

About Allocate

Allocate is building the operating system for private markets - wealth advisors and their clients use the platform to access, transact in, and manage private market investments. The platform supports 350+ advisory firms and 1,500+ GP relationships, with $ 5B+ in assets on the platform.

The Role

Allocate is hiring its first dedicated, in-house technical recruiter - someone who can walk in and immediately own the full cycle recruiting for our engineering, product, and design teams, not just run playbooks handed down by someone else.

You’ll partner directly with the founders, CTO, and engineering leaders to translate hiring needs into structured, repeatable processes across engineering, product, and design teams, run full-cycle searches yourself (including specialized roles), manage relationships with any external recruiting partners, and design, build, and implement the recruiting motion and operations - training, rubrics, scorecards - that enables our teams to hire consistently and well while upholding our talent bar as the company scales. This is a hands-on, individual-contributor-to-team-of-one role today.

What You’ll Do

• Own full-cycle recruiting across engineering, product, and design teams - from role scoping and sourcing strategy through offer and close - including senior roles and specialized searches that require significant judgment and market fluency.
• Design and run structured interview processes, including interviewer-specific guides, behavioral question banks, and scorecards mapped to role competencies - reducing bias and improving hiring signal.
• Coach and train hiring managers and interviewers, building internal muscle memory so hiring quality doesn’t depend solely on you.
• Manage external recruiting partners and agencies where used, ensuring consistent candidate experience and process discipline across internal and external pipelines.
• Own advanced outbound sourcing, with a demonstrated ability to identify and access hard-to-find, passive, and hard-to-reach candidates for niche or highly competitive roles - going well beyond inbound and standard database search.
• Build and own sourcing strategy, including advanced Boolean/direct sourcing for hard-to-fill or competitive roles, and evaluate and deploy AI-powered tools to increase sourcing and pipeline efficiency.
• Shape Allocate’s talent and employer brand, developing the story, positioning, and candidate-facing materials that make Allocate compelling to the people we most want to hire.
• Partner with the internal People team on talent and people operations, including how to build and optimize recruiting workflows, reporting, and process discipline that keep the function running smoothly as volume and complexity grow.
• Champion an inclusive, high-integrity hiring process - from job description language through debrief calibration - as a founding value of how Allocate builds its team.

What You Bring

• 10+ years in talent acquisition, with direct experience owning recruiting across EPD functions (Engineering, Product, Data/Research, Design).
• A track record designing and deploying structured interviewing practices - not just running them, but building the frameworks (behavioral question banks, scorecards, interviewer training) from scratch.
• A proven, hands-on track record in outbound sourcing for hard-to-reach and hard-to-identify candidates - deep comfort with advanced Boolean search, creative sourcing channels, and market mapping to surface talent that isn’t actively looking or easily found through standard tools.
• Experience evaluating and deploying AI-powered sourcing and recruiting tools (and a desire to keep experimenting) to extend what a lean talent function can do.
• Experience managing or coordinating external recruiting partners/agencies alongside internal pipelines.
• A track record building talent/employer branding and talent communities - proactive candidate pipelines and employer positioning that generate inbound interest and shorten future searches.
• Experience building consistent, scalable talent operations - the workflows, reporting, and process infrastructure that keep a recruiting function scalable and consistent.
• Comfort operating as a function of one in an early-stage environment - equally able to run a search personally and to design the systems that outlast any single search.
• A demonstrated commitment to inclusive hiring practices and diverse candidate pipelines.
• Experience with ATS selection, implementation, or migration is a strong plus.

Essential Values & Culture

Providing our clients with a world-class experience is our number one priority. We obsessively search for ways to improve the experience for our clients and partners. This requires extraordinary response times, proactivity, and ensuring that everything we do - from product strategy to offline communications - reflects a top-tier client experience.

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