Principal Tech Recruiter & Strategic Hiring Partner

Babylist; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 179,000 - 218,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work stipend

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Retirement plan with company match

Parental leave

Job summary

Babylist is seeking a senior talent acquisition partner to own and close its most strategic technical roles, partnering with engineering and product leadership. This remote-first team uses AI daily to move fast and raise the bar in hiring quality.

You will lead end-to-end recruiting for senior- to director-level roles, influence compensation strategy, and build scalable hiring infrastructure across U.S. and Canada. Experience with complex offer negotiations is essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience.
• Experience driving complex offer situations with above-band justifications.
• Strong hiring-manager judgment in ambiguous situations.
• Mentor to team; built tools like coaching programs or trackers.
• Curiosity about market, engineering practices, and Babylist culture.
• Proficiency with AI tools in recruiting and workflow optimization.

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering directors and product leaders as a thought partner.
• Own and close Babylist’s complex technical roles: senior, staff, and director-level engineers, principal PMs, and emerging AI/Builder profiles.
• Build and maintain the team’s hiring intelligence infrastructure: finals trackers, pipeline dashboards, funnel analysis.
• Present pipeline health and hiring trends to Engineering Leadership with data-driven insights.
• Drive the offer strategy on hard-to-close situations with clear rationale and framing.
• Design and run team capability programs, including peer screen reviews and coaching.
• Manage external agency partnerships using performance data and outcomes.
• Shape how Engineering and Product leadership thinks about hiring calibration and process.

Skills

Technical fluency

10+ years recruiting

Complex offers

Hiring manager judgment

Mentor recruiters

AI in recruitment

Job description

Babylist is seeking a senior talent acquisition partner to own and close its most strategic technical roles, partnering with engineering and product leadership. This remote-first team uses AI daily to move fast and raise the bar in hiring quality.

You will lead end-to-end recruiting for senior- to director-level roles, influence compensation strategy, and build scalable hiring infrastructure across U.S. and Canada. Experience with complex offer negotiations is essential.