Lead Technical Recruiter

UNKNOWN; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

401k with matching

Unlimited PTO

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Health FSA

Commuter benefits

Life insurance

Team events and activities

Job summary

Ode with Anthropic is building a team to bring frontier AI into practice. We’re expanding our talent function to identify and hire elite software engineers across senior levels, collaborating closely with engineering leadership and product teams to raise our hiring standards.

As a member of our talent group, you’ll influence recruiting decisions, mentor peers, and continuously improve how we attract and select top talent in a fast-moving, market-leading environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience recruiting exceptional engineering talent.
• Strong hiring judgment with evidence-based decisions.
• Technical fluency to engage with candidates and leaders.

Responsibilities

• Own critical engineering searches from strategy through close.
• Partner with hiring managers to develop strategies and calibrate interview quality.
• Raise the recruiting bar by sharing best practices and mentoring teammates.
• Build better recruiting systems through data, AI, and process design.
• Help shape the future of recruiting at Ode by improving operations and sourcing.

Skills

Engineering recruiting

Hiring judgment

Technical fluency

Leadership by influence

Builder mindset

Ownership

Job description

About Ode with Anthropic

How do you turn a decades-old dataset into an industry-leading medical coding agent? Teach an AI receptionist to book appointments in Spanish? Automatically generate working data connectors from API docs? Build agents that write, test, and deploy their own software packages?

Anthropic is defining frontier AI. Ode is the team bringing frontier AI into practice.

We are a team of experienced builders who care deeply about getting complex AI systems into production, with strong conviction about what makes them succeed. As Anthropic’s services venture, we tackle the hardest, most consequential AI problems for companies with real stakes, working closely with their Applied AI and Product teams to turn frontier technology into real world impact.

We're backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, General Atlantic, Leonard Green & Partners, Apollo Global Management, GIC, and Sequoia Capital.

We're headquartered in SF with offices in NYC, Raleigh-Durham, and Dubai.

The Role

Our talent is our product. Customers choose Ode because we bring together elite engineers, product leaders, and commercial operators to build and deploy applied AI systems.

We’re building a team that makes Ode the best place to learn applied AI. As a member of our talent team, you’ll play a critical role in making that real — identifying and closing exceptional talent. Engineering hiring is core to the role, but you’ll have the opportunity to work across functions as we grow.

What You'll Do

• Own critical engineering searches.Partner with engineering leaders to identify, engage, and hire exceptional software engineers across senior, staff, and principal levels. You'll own searches from strategy through close and play a meaningful role in building our engineering organization.
• Partner with hiring managers.Develop hiring strategies, advise on talent markets, calibrate interview quality, and become a trusted thought partner throughout the hiring process.
• Raise the recruiting bar.Share best practices, mentor teammates, and help strengthen hiring judgment across the recruiting team. You'll lead through influence, not title.
• Build better recruiting systems.Continuously improve how we recruit through data, AI, experimentation, and thoughtful process design. Find leverage that helps the team move faster without lowering the hiring bar.
• Help shape the future of recruiting at Ode.Contribute to interviewer enablement, recruiting operations, sourcing strategy, and the systems that allow us to scale while maintaining exceptional hiring quality.

What You Bring

• 4+ years of experience recruiting exceptional engineering talent.You've stood up engineering recruiting functions and built foundational engineering teams in early-stage or high-growth environments.
• Strong hiring judgment.You know what exceptional talent looks like and can make thoughtful, evidence-based hiring decisions while earning trust from candidates, hiring managers, and interview teams.
• Technical fluency.You understand modern engineering organizations and can credibly engage with both candidates and engineering leaders.
• Leadership through influence.You naturally elevate the people around you by sharing knowledge, mentoring teammates, and driving improvements, regardless of whether you have direct reports.
• Builder mindset.You enjoy improving systems, challenging existing processes, and using AI, automation, and data to make recruiting more effective.
• High ownership.You move with urgency, follow through on commitments, and take responsibility for outcomes. You don't wait to be told what needs fixing—you identify opportunities and act.

Our Values

• Overdeliver: We are writing the playbook on how to create enterprise value with LLMs, and building our reputation as the world’s best applied AI team.
• Overuse AI: We obsessively explore and experiment with Claude to push the frontier of applied AI and share what we learn with our teammates.
• Over”engineer” the Culture: We’re building a culture that attracts and retains top applied AI talent, and we stress test large decisions through the perspective of our world class builders.

Location

San Francisco, CA
New York, NY

Work Arrangement: 4 days in-person, Fridays remote

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation Package: Attractive salary aligned with your experience and skills.
• 401k with Matching: Invest in your future with our company-matched retirement plan.
• Unlimited PTO: Take the time you need to relax and rejuvenate.
• Exceptional Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage: Comprehensive health benefits to keep you and your family healthy.
• Health FSA: Manage out-of-pocket health expenses effectively.
• Commuter Benefits: Make your travel to work easier and more affordable.
• Life Insurance: Providing peace of mind for you and your loved ones.
• Team Events and Activities: Regular events to build camaraderie and a strong team spirit.