Lead Recruiter — Build Our Talent Engine for a Greener Grid

Better Ventures; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Critical Loop is hiring its first dedicated Lead Recruiter to own recruiting across the business and help scale our hiring infrastructure. You will partner with hiring managers and executives to attract outstanding talent across engineering, operations, manufacturing, corporate functions, and leadership.

You’ll shape recruiting processes, interview frameworks, and cadence to deliver a consistently high-quality hiring experience, reporting to the People & Talent Lead and building stronger systems

Qualifications

• 3+ years of full-cycle in-house recruiting across multiple functions.
• Proven success sourcing passive candidates and building talent pipelines for difficult-to-fill positions.
• Experience partnering directly with hiring managers throughout the hiring process, from intake through offer acceptance.
• Strong interviewing and candidate assessment skills with the ability to evaluate both technical capability and long-term organizational fit.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Highly organized with outstanding follow-through and attention to detail.
• Comfortable managing multiple concurrent searches while maintaining an exceptional candidate experience.
• Experience using modern ATS platforms (Ashby preferred, Greenhouse, Lever, or equivalent acceptable).

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting across technical and non-technical roles, including sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer management, and candidate experience.
• Partner with hiring managers to define hiring strategies, conduct intake meetings, build interview plans, and calibrate candidate profiles.
• Build proactive talent pipelines for recurring and difficult-to-fill positions before hiring needs become urgent.
• Develop sourcing strategies that leverage LinkedIn Recruiter, networking, referrals, communities, and creative outreach techniques.
• Own recruiting operations within Ashby, including job creation, interview scheduling workflows, reporting, scorecards, templates, and process documentation.
• Continuously improve interview processes, candidate communications, hiring manager enablement, and recruiting metrics.
• Track recruiting analytics including time-to-fill, pipeline conversion, sourcing effectiveness, and hiring manager satisfaction.
• Partner with the People & Talent Lead on onboarding improvements, employer initiatives, and People Operations projects that improve the employee experience.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to hiring managers by challenging assumptions, improving interview quality, and helping teams make better hiring decisions.
• Identify patterns across searches and recommend improvements to recruiting strategy, compensation positioning, interview design, and talent planning.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Interviewing skills

Candidate assessment

Written & verbal communication

Organization & follow-through

Tools

Ashby ATS

Greenhouse

Lever

Job description

Critical Loop is hiring its first dedicated Lead Recruiter to own recruiting across the business and help scale our hiring infrastructure. You will partner with hiring managers and executives to attract outstanding talent across engineering, operations, manufacturing, corporate functions, and leadership.

You’ll shape recruiting processes, interview frameworks, and cadence to deliver a consistently high-quality hiring experience, reporting to the People & Talent Lead and building stronger systems