Lead Talent Acquisition Specialist – Technology

HighLevel; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

HighLevel is seeking an experienced Lead Talent Acquisition Specialist - Technology to join our global Talent Acquisition team. This is a senior individual contributor role responsible for owning hiring outcomes across technology functions, partnering closely with business and technology leaders, and building strong talent pipelines for critical and complex roles.

You will combine deep technical recruiting expertise with market intelligence, data, and AI-enabled recruiting tools to improve

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Talent Acquisition experience in technology hiring.
• Proven success recruiting senior, niche, and hard-to-find talent across Engineering and related technology functions.
• Strong sourcing and talent-mapping capabilities, with the ability to develop creative strategies for challenging talent markets.
• Ability to partner with senior leaders and influence hiring decisions using market insights, recruiting data, and sound judgment.
• Experience using recruiting metrics and funnel analytics to identify bottlenecks and improve hiring outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end hiring for technology roles across Engineering, Product, Data, AI/ML, QA/SDET, and technical leadership.
• Partner with hiring leaders to understand business priorities and translate them into effective hiring and sourcing strategies.
• Build strong pipelines for niche and hard-to-find technical talent through direct sourcing, market mapping, referrals, communities, events, talent networks, and innovative channels.
• Act as a trusted talent advisor, using market intelligence, recruiting data, and talent insights to influence hiring decisions.
• Monitor and improve funnel health, hiring SLAs, conversion rates, time-to-hire, and overall candidate experience.
• Leverage AI-powered recruiting, talent intelligence, automation, and AI-assisted sourcing to improve hiring effectiveness and recruiter productivity.
• Mentor recruiters and help drive consistent, high-quality hiring practices across the Talent Acquisition team.
• Partner cross-functionally with People, Talent Management, HR Business Partners, and business leaders to successfully close critical talent.
• Maintain a high bar for candidate experience through clear, timely, and transparent communication throughout the hiring journey.

Skills

Talent Acquisition

Tech Hiring

Sourcing

Market Mapping

Stakeholder Management

Recruiting Metrics

AI Recruiting Tools

Mentoring Recruiters

Tools

GenAI

AI Recruiting Tools

Recruiting Automation Platforms

Talent Intelligence Platforms

Job description

About us

HighLevel is an AI-powered business operating system that gives agencies, entrepreneurs and SMBs the infrastructure to build, automate and scale. Today, HighLevel supports SMBs across 150+ countries, fueling community-driven growth rooted in real customer outcomes.
To date, businesses operating on HighLevel have generated over $7 billion in ecosystem value, demonstrating the impact of shared infrastructure at scale. By centralizing conversations, automation and intelligence into one system, we help businesses move faster, reduce complexity and execute efficiently.
Behind the platform, HighLevel powers more than 4 billion API hits and 2.5 billion message events daily. With 250 terabytes of distributed data, 250+ microservices and over 1 million domain names supported, our architecture is built for performance, resilience and long-term scalability.

Our people

With over 2,000 team members across 10+ countries, HighLevel operates as a global, remote-first organization built for speed and ownership. We value initiative, clarity and execution, creating space for ambitious people to build systems that support millions of businesses worldwide. Here, innovation thrives, ideas are celebrated and people come first, no matter where they call home.

Our impact

Every month, HighLevel enables more than 1.5 billion messages, 200 million leads and 20 million conversations for the more than 1 million businesses we support. Behind those numbers are real people building independence, expanding opportunity and creating measurable impact. We're proud to be a part of that.
Learn more about us on our YouTube Channel or Blog Posts

About the Role

HighLevel is seeking an experienced Lead Talent Acquisition Specialist - Technology to join our global Talent Acquisition team. This is a senior individual contributor role responsible for owning hiring outcomes across technology functions, partnering closely with business and technology leaders, and building strong talent pipelines for critical and complex roles.

You will combine deep technical recruiting expertise with market intelligence, data, and AI-enabled recruiting tools to improve talent quality, hiring velocity, and candidate experience.

What You'll Do

• Own end-to-end hiring for technology roles across Engineering, Product, Data, AI/ML, QA/SDET, and technical leadership.


• Partner with hiring leaders to understand business priorities and translate them into effective hiring and sourcing strategies.


• Build strong pipelines for niche and hard-to-find technical talent through direct sourcing, market mapping, referrals, communities, events, talent networks, and innovative channels.


• Act as a trusted talent advisor, using market intelligence, recruiting data, and talent insights to influence hiring decisions.


• Monitor and improve funnel health, hiring SLAs, conversion rates, time-to-hire, and overall candidate experience.


• Leverage AI-powered recruiting, talent intelligence, automation, and AI-assisted sourcing to improve hiring effectiveness and recruiter productivity.


• Mentor recruiters and help drive consistent, high-quality hiring practices across the Talent Acquisition team.


• Partner cross-functionally with People, Talent Management, HR Business Partners, and business leaders to successfully close critical talent.


• Maintain a high bar for candidate experience through clear, timely, and transparent communication throughout the hiring journey.

What You'll Bring

• 7+ years of Talent Acquisition experience, with strong expertise in technology hiring.


• Proven success recruiting senior, niche, and hard-to-find talent across Engineering and related technology functions.


• Strong sourcing and talent-mapping capabilities, with the ability to develop creative strategies for challenging talent markets.


• Ability to partner with senior leaders and influence hiring decisions using market insights, recruiting data, and sound judgment.


• Experience using recruiting metrics and funnel analytics to identify bottlenecks and improve hiring outcomes.


• Exposure to AI recruiting tools, GenAI, recruiting automation, or talent intelligence platforms is preferred.


• Experience mentoring recruiters or sourcers and helping raise recruiting standards across a team.


• Strong stakeholder management, communication, negotiation, and closing skills.


• A problem-solving mindset with the ability to identify hiring challenges and build practical, scalable solutions.


• Ability to operate effectively in a high-growth, fast-moving, and globally distributed environment.

EEO Statement

The company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. As an employer subject to affirmative action regulations, we invite you to voluntarily provide the following demographic information. This information is used solely for compliance with government recordkeeping, reporting, and other legal requirements. Providing this information is voluntary and refusal to do so will not affect your application status. This data will be kept separate from your application and will not be used in the hiring decision.

We encourage you to review our Privacy Policy before submitting your application