Principal Technical Recruiter

MrBeast; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous Medical, Dental, and Vision

Flexible vacation policy

Relocation assistance

Job summary

MrBeast is looking for a Principal Technical Recruiter to oversee the full-cycle recruiting process for impactful software engineering and data science roles. You will partner with leadership to translate technical needs into successful hires while utilizing innovative sourcing strategies.

The ideal candidate thrives in a dynamic environment, understanding the unique landscape of tech recruiting and exhibiting strong communication skills. This position offers competitive compensation and growth potential within a revolutionary media company.

Qualifications

• 5–8+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience in high-growth tech companies.
• Strong track record of hiring senior engineers and data scientists.
• Excellent communication and closing skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead full-cycle recruiting for engineering and data science roles.
• Partner with hiring managers to define hiring needs.
• Proactively source candidates using advanced techniques.

Skills

Full-cycle technical recruiting

Exceptional technical sourcing skills

Technical literacy

Clear communication

Cultural alignment

Job description

Beast Industries is a multifaceted media and entertainment company founded by Jimmy Donaldson, popularly known as MrBeast, the most watched person in the world. Renowned for revolutionizing digital content creation, Beast Industries encompasses a diverse portfolio of ventures that extend far beyond its origins on YouTube. With a mission to entertain, inspire, and create significant social impact, Beast Industries operates across various domains including digital media, philanthropy, consumer products, and innovative business initiatives. At Beast Industries, we believe in the transformative power of digital media and its potential to entertain, educate, and effect positive change. Our commitment to innovation, creativity, and philanthropy drives us to explore new frontiers, create unforgettable experiences, and build a legacy that inspires future generations.

Principal Technical Recruiter (San Francisco, CA)

Reporting to the VP, Talent Acquisition and Technology, you'll own full-cycle technical recruiting for some of the most impactful roles at MrBeast — spanning software engineering, data science, machine learning, product, and technical operations. You'll work directly with engineering managers, senior ICs, and leadership to translate ambitious technical roadmaps into real hires, quickly and thoughtfully.

This role is well-suited for someone who enjoys complexity, moves with urgency, and is genuinely excited about recruiting at a company that looks nothing like a traditional tech employer — but competes for the same talent.

What You’ll Do

Own Technical Hiring End-to-End

• Lead full-cycle recruiting for engineering, data science, ML, product, and technical operations roles.
• Partner with hiring managers and technical leads to define what "great" actually looks like for each role, beyond the job spec.
• Design and run tight, well-structured interview processes that assess both technical depth and the judgment required to thrive here.
• Close candidates by clearly articulating the scale, ownership, and unique impact of what we're building.

Find Technical Talent in Unconventional Places

• Proactively source engineers, data scientists, and technical PMs using advanced sourcing techniques across LinkedIn, GitHub, and niche technical communities.
• Build pipelines for roles that require both technical rigor and the ability to operate in a fast-moving, creative organization.
• Identify talent before they're looking. Tap into open source contributors, hackathon networks, and technical communities tied to our product areas.
• Stay current on trends in AI/ML, content tech, and digital products to credibly engage top technical candidates.

Be a Strategic to Technical Leaders

• Act as a trusted advisor to engineering and product managers, delivering honest market feedback and competitive intelligence on technical talent.
• Help technical leaders make confident, fast hiring decisions and bringing structure without bureaucracy.
• Translate roadmap priorities into hiring strategies, and flag risks before they become blockers.
• Balance speed, quality, and culture alignment as the company's technical direction continues to evolve.

Build Technical Recruiting for Scale

• Develop and improve technical interview frameworks, assessment approaches, and hiring rubrics as teams grow.
• Introduce consistency and rigor without slowing down the teams you serve.
• Use data, pattern recognition, and sound judgment to continuously raise the bar — and help others do the same.
• Help build a recruiting function that can scale with the company's technical ambitions.

What You’ll Bring

• 5–8+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, ideally within high-growth tech companies, media tech, or startups scaling engineering teams.
• A strong track record of hiring senior engineers, data scientists, ML practitioners, and technical product managers in competitive markets.
• Exceptional technical sourcing skills — fluent in GitHub, LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean, and non-traditional sourcing strategies for hard-to-find profiles.
• Enough technical literacy to have credible conversations with engineers about their work, assess role‑fit signals, and evaluate candidate quality beyond a resume.
• Comfort with ambiguity, fast-changing priorities, and leaders who think big and move fast.
• Strong instincts for talent, potential, and cultural alignment and not just credentials and tenure.
• Clear communicator, strong closer, and someone who takes real pride in the caliber of the teams they help build.
• Genuine curiosity about creator platforms, content technology, audience-scale products, and building things people actually care about.

The target total compensation ranges from $201,250 – $230,000 including a fixed annual salary of $175,000 – $200,000, an employee equity plan grant, bonus, plus comprehensive benefits.

Equity grants are issued in good faith, subject to company policies, board approval, and individual eligibility.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Generous Medical (Blue Cross Blue Shield), Dental, Vision and company-paid Life Insurance
• Company contributions to employee Health Savings Accounts (HSA)401k Plan with Safe Harbor company-matching
• Flexible vacation policy and paid company holidays
• Company-provided technology package
• Relocation assistance where applicable, including travel and company-provided housing for the first 90 days