Senior Recruiter

oWOW; Oakland (CA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

oWOW in Oakland is searching for a Senior Recruiter who will shape the company's future by recruiting top talent in construction and engineering. This role requires 3 to 10 years of recruiting experience and elite sourcing abilities. You’ll partner with leadership, build proactive talent pipelines, and ensure an excellent candidate experience. Joining oWOW means having a direct impact on building the future of housing in America and seeing your work translate into real-world results.

Qualifications

• 3 - 10+ years of recruiting experience in construction, engineering, or high-growth tech.
• Proven track record of closing senior and technical roles.
• Fast, clear, resourceful, and relentless.

Responsibilities

• Recruit top performers across various disciplines.
• Build proactive talent acquisition pipelines.
• Define success profiles and influence talent strategy.
• Own candidate experience end-to-end.

Skills

Elite sourcing abilities

High-judgment interviewer

Builder mindset

Job description

oWOW is a vertically integrated manufacturing, real estate development, design and construction company redefining urban housing through innovation in mass timber, design efficiency, and speed-to-delivery.

Fun fact: we are the group behind 1510 Webster, the tallest mass-timber building on the West Coast.

Why This Role Matters

America is short millions of homes and traditional construction can’t keep up.

oWOW is rewriting the playbook for building housing through industrialized design-build, vertically integrated development, and a manufacturing mindset brought to construction.

To pull this off at scale, we need exceptional people, that’s where you come in.

The Senior Recruiter is not a typical recruiting role. This is a founding talent operator who will directly shape the future of oWOW by bringing in the builders, engineers, designers, operators, and leaders who will transform how housing gets delivered in America. You’ll run points on the hires that make or break the company’s next stage of growth and help build our recruiting system, not just run it.

This is high-impact, high-velocity, mission-driven work.

What You’ll Do (The Fun Stuff)

1. You’ll be responsible for recruiting top performers across:

• Engineering (structural, MEP, civil, manufacturing)
• Design-build (architects, PMs, estimators, superintendents)
• Factory / Industrialized construction operations
• Development, Investments, Acquisitions, and corporate leadership

2. Be a Talent Hunter (Not a Coordinator)

• Aggressively source candidates in the top 1%
• Build outbound strategies that pull talent from the best companies
• Turn cold prospects into fired-up candidates

You’re a top choice if you know how to find people who aren’t looking, and excite them about a mission worth switching jobs for.

3. Partner Directly With Leadership

• Define success profiles, role scorecards, and hiring plans
• Influence org design and talent strategy
• You’re a strategic voice in the room, not an order taker.

4. Build the oWOW Recruiting Engine

• Build proactive talent acquisition pipelines for future growth roles
• Build a robust Applicant Tracking System
• Establish an employee referral program
• Oversee marketing initiatives to communicate the companies narrative to high quality candidates

5. Own candidate experience end-to-end

• Design & implement a compelling onboarding experience to new hires

What Success Looks Like

• Critical leadership & technical roles filled with A-players
• Time-to-fill for priority roles: 45 days
• Hiring managers rave about your speed + judgment
• oWOW becomes known as a magnet for world-class talent

You will literally see your impact walking around the office, building buildings, and reshaping cities.

Who You Are

• 3 - 10+ years of recruiting experience in construction, engineering, construction, manufacturing, or high-growth tech
• Proven track record of closing senior and technical roles
• Elite sourcing abilities - Boolean fluency, competitive mapping, passive outreach mastery
• High-judgment interviewer; trusted by executives
• Builder mindset - you like building processes, not inheriting them
• Fast, clear, resourceful, relentless
• Energized by solving the housing crisis and creating real-world impact

Why Join oWOW?

• You’ll be a key architect of the team that builds the future of housing
• You’ll see your work translate directly into buildings, neighborhoods, and lives changed
• You’ll have massive career upside as we scale