Principal Technical Recruiter

OpenTable; California; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work flexibility

Mental health support

Generous parental leave

Paid vacation

Volunteer time off

Learning and development opportunities

Job summary

OpenTable is seeking a Principal Technical Recruiter to play a strategic role in identifying and hiring top-tier engineering and specialized technical talent. You will advise senior leadership, drive data-informed workforce strategy, and lead scalable talent frameworks across the organization.

You will combine executive-level candidate experiences with hands-on sourcing, complex offer negotiations, and partnership with Directors, VPs, SVPs to shape staffing plans.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, ideally in-house within high-growth or enterprise technology environments.
• Proven track record of advising and influencing senior executive stakeholders using market data, pass-through rates, and pipeline health metrics.
• Deep technical acumen with a strong functional understanding of software engineering, infrastructure, data science, or specialized research landscapes.
• Demonstrated expertise in navigating and executing complex, high-level offer negotiations and compensation structuring.
• Experience designing and standing up various hiring initiatives and inclusive sourcing programs within technical organizations.
• Proven experience establishing standardized interview rubrics and scalable talent assessment frameworks.
• Background in direct mentorship or formal coaching of talent acquisition team members and sourcers.
• Expertise in advanced recruitment analytics and building data dashboards to track talent acquisition performance.

Responsibilities

• Identify, attract, and hire top-tier engineering and specialized technical talent to drive company growth.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior executive leadership using recruitment analytics and market intelligence.
• Lead high-impact hiring initiatives and design scalable talent acquisition frameworks across the organization.
• Combine high-touch executive candidate experiences with hands-on sourcing and complex offer negotiations.
• Partner with senior leadership to design baseline hiring criteria and forecast workforce needs using data-driven insights.
• Execute advanced sourcing and market mapping to build pipelines of passive, high-caliber talent.
• Lead complex offer negotiations and construct competitive compensation packages with a white-glove experience.
• Establish scalable hiring frameworks, standardized rubrics, and structured evaluation processes.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Executive stakeholder advisory

Technical recruitment

Offer negotiations

Sourcing programs

Structured interviewing

Mentorship

Recruitment analytics

Job description

Who you are

• 8+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, ideally in-house within high-growth or enterprise technology environments
• Proven track record of advising and influencing senior executive stakeholders using market data, pass-through rates, and pipeline health metrics
• Deep technical acumen with a strong functional understanding of software engineering, infrastructure, data science, or specialized research landscapes
• Demonstrated expertise in navigating and executing complex, high-level offer negotiations and compensation structuring
• Experience designing and standing up various hiring initiatives and inclusive sourcing programs within technical organizations
• Proven experience establishing standardized interview rubrics and scalable talent assessment frameworks
• Background in direct mentorship or formal coaching of talent acquisition team members and sourcers
• Expertise in advanced recruitment analytics and building data dashboards to track talent acquisition performance

What the job involves

• As a Principal Technical Recruiter on our Recruiting team, you will play a critical strategic role in identifying, attracting, and hiring top-tier engineering and specialized technical talent to drive our company's growth
• You will serve as a trusted advisor to senior executive leadership, leveraging recruitment analytics and market intelligence to shape our workforce strategy
• You will lead high-impact hiring initiatives, design scalable talent acquisition frameworks, and elevate our technical recruitment bar across the organization
• In this role, you will combine high-touch, executive-level candidate experiences with hands-on sourcing and complex offer negotiations
• Partner directly with senior leadership, including Directors, VPs, SVPs, to design baseline hiring criteria, forecast workforce needs, and provide data-driven advisory on competitive market conditions
• Execute advanced sourcing and market mapping strategies to build robust pipelines of passive, high-caliber talent across software engineering, infrastructure, data science, and research domains
• Lead complex offer negotiations and construct competitive compensation packages while delivering a white-glove candidate experience from outreach to onboarding
• Establish scalable hiring frameworks, standardized interview rubrics, and structured candidate evaluation processes across the broader engineering organization
• Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives within the technical recruitment pipeline to ensure fair and comprehensive sourcing strategies
• Upskill and mentor junior recruiters and sourcers, establishing best practices and raising the overall standard of technical talent acquisition across the team

Benefits

• Work from (almost) anywhere - wherever you do your best work
• Mental health and well-being - company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth, company-paid subscription to HeadSpace, and company-wide weeks off a year so the whole team can recharge
• Generous parental leave
• Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
• Paid volunteer time
• Enriched learning and development opportunities - leadership development & access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings