Lead Technical Recruiter

SeatGeek; New York (NY); On-site; USD 119,000 - 172,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity stake

Discretionary annual bonus

Flexible work environment (remotely or

WFH stipend

Unlimited PTO

Family leave (up to 16 weeks)

401(k) matching

Student loan matching

Health, vision, dental, and life ins.

Wellness stipend

Tickets to live events

Spotify/Apple Music/Amazon Music

Job summary

SeatGeek believes live events are powerful experiences that unite humans. We are seeking a Lead Technical Recruiter to own full lifecycle hiring for senior and staff engineers, data/ML specialists, product managers, and designers in New York.

You’ll define playbooks, partner with leadership, and push AI-driven sourcing while preserving human judgment. The role reports to the Director of Talent Acquisition and emphasizes market data, executive stakeholder alignment, and building scalable

Qualifications

• 8+ years of full lifecycle technical recruiting for senior and staff-level roles.
• Depth across engineering, data and ML, product, and design.
• Proven ability to build approaches when roles/markets are undefined.
• Strategic sourcing with market mapping and outbound.
• Fluency with recruiting data and tools; justify decisions with metrics.
• Executive presence and ability to influence stakeholders.
• Curiosity about AI in recruiting and applying it to workflows.
• Reputation as a teammate who mentors others.

Responsibilities

• Own complex technical and product searches from intake through close.
• Build sourcing strategies from market mapping to outbound campaigns.
• Advise on compensation and offer strategy, closing candidates in competitive markets.
• Shape role scope and interview design with senior leaders.
• Lead intake and calibration to set hiring bar and reset expectations.
• Influence headcount planning with market and organizational context.
• Use funnel, pipeline, and time-to-fill data to diagnose challenges.
• Develop AI-powered recruiting processes to improve quality and speed.
• Mentor recruiters and sourcers, sharing candidates and pipeline.
• Collaborate effectively as priorities shift and hiring pressure increases.

Skills

Full lifecycle recruiting

Engineering/Data/ML depth

Sourcing strategy

Recruiting analytics

AI in recruiting

Executive presence

Mentoring teammates

Stakeholder management

Tools

Greenhouse

Gem

LinkedIn Recruiter

ModernLoop

Job description

SeatGeek believes live events are powerful experiences that unite humans. With our technological savvy and fan-first attitude we’re simplifying and modernizing the ticketing industry.

As a Lead Technical Recruiter, you'll own full lifecycle hiring for our most difficult and highest visibility technical searches, including senior and staff level engineers, data and ML specialists, product managers, and designers. Many of these are roles where the hiring bar, talent mapping, and the sourcing channel have not been defined. You'll run them with a high degree of autonomy, build the playbooks the rest of the team uses, and serve as a voice R&D and Product leaders turn to when they're deciding what to build and who should build it.

The ideal candidate operates as a talent advisor and strategic partner. They bring market data and pipeline evidence into every conversation, facilitate communication with executive stakeholders, and raise the standard of how the team operates. We're also looking for someone with real curiosity about how AI is changing recruiting, and the appetite to put that curiosity to work. This role will report to the Director of Talent Acquisition.

What You’ll Do

• Own complex technical and product searches from intake through close, including niche, emerging and confidential roles, partnering with recruiting leadership on executive searches
• Build sourcing strategies from scratch through market mapping, competitive research and targeted outbound campaigns, while managing multiple high complexity searches without sacrificing pipeline momentum or candidate experience
• Advise on compensation and offer strategy and close candidates in competitive markets
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior engineering, data and product leaders, shaping role scope, leveling, interview design and hiring strategy rather than executing against a predefined spec
• Lead intake and calibration to establish the hiring bar, use market evidence to reset expectations when searches stall and provide leaders with clear insight into hiring health
• Influence headcount planning and role scoping by bringing market, compensation and organizational context to decisions
• Use funnel, pipeline and time to fill data to diagnose search challenges and adjust strategy in real time
• Bring root cause analysis and recommendations, not just flags, and independently make decisions on search strategy, process and stakeholder approach while escalating broader resourcing and headcount decisions
• Test and adopt AI across sourcing, screening, outreach and scheduling, scale what works and retire what doesn’t
• Help define where AI can improve hiring quality and speed while keeping human judgment where it matters, using automation to reduce administrative work and give recruiters more time with candidates and hiring managers
• Build reusable playbooks, market intelligence and best practices that elevate the broader recruiting team
• Mentor recruiters and sourcers on sourcing, stakeholder management and closing while sharing candidates, intelligence and pipeline across the team
• Set the standard for collaboration, adaptability and execution, especially as priorities shift and hiring pressure increases

What You Have

• 8+ years of full lifecycle technical recruiting, including senior and staff level IC hiring at a fast growing technology company
• Depth across engineering, data and ML, product, and design, with the fluency to credibly engage senior candidates
• A track record of building the approach yourself on searches where the role, the bar, or the market was undefined
• Strategic sourcing skill: market mapping, talent intelligence, and outbound that builds pipeline without leaning on inbound or agencies
• Fluency with recruiting data and the tools behind it, including Greenhouse, Gem, LinkedIn Recruiter, and ModernLoop or similar. You build your own views and use metrics to make and defend decisions
• Executive presence and the ability to influence without authority, grounded in a real understanding of the business you support
• Curiosity and aptitude for new technology. You have put AI to work in your own workflow and can speak to what it changed
• A reputation as a teammate who mentors, shares what they know, and raises the level of the team

Perks

• Equity stake
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Flexible work environment, allowing you to work as many days a week in the office as you’d like or 100% remotely
• A WFH stipend to support your home office setup
• Unlimited PTO
• Up to 16 weeks of fully-paid family leave
• 401(k) matching
• Student loan matching program
• Health, vision, dental, and life insurance
• Up to $25k towards family building, reproductive health services and Gender-affirming care
• $500 per year for wellness expenses
• Subscriptions to Headspace (meditation), Headspace Care (therapy), and One Medical
• $360 per quarter to spend on tickets to live events
• Annual subscription to Spotify, Apple Music, or Amazon music

The salary range for this role is $119,000 - $172,000 USD. This role is equity eligible. In addition, you may receive a discretionary annual bonus based on individual and company performance. Actual compensation packages within that range are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years and depth of experience, certifications, and specific location.

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