Senior Recruiter

Premier Talent Partners; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm in San Francisco is hiring a Sr. Recruiter to design effective strategies for attracting exceptional talent. The position involves managing full-cycle talent searches across technical and business roles within a collaborative environment. Candidates should have 5 to 8+ years of experience in recruiting, preferably in early-stage startups, and possess strong communication skills. This role offers the opportunity to work closely with partners and portfolio companies, shaping the talent brand and driving innovative recruitment strategies.

Qualifications

• 5 - 8+ years of experience as a recruiting lead at an early-stage startup.
• Proven ability to manage specialized searches for senior-level hires.
• Strong communication skills to influence across all levels.

Responsibilities

• Design recruiting strategies for exceptional talent.
• Run full-cycle talent searches for technical and business roles.
• Engage high-caliber talent through targeted outreach.

Skills

Experience in early-stage startups

Specialized recruiting for high-value roles

Strong talent network

Excellent communication skills

Proactive and high-energy

Influencing stakeholders

Data-driven problem solving

Comfort with ambiguity

Job description

Work Schedule: In-office Monday - Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm w/ some flexibility for WFH

Compensation: $150K - $200K

Our client is dedicated to founding, funding, and building data and AI-native startups. Led by a team of serial AI founders with multiple exits, the client operates within a people-first culture, bringing hands-on support to its portfolio companies from ideation through exit.

They don’t just critique - they roll up their sleeves and partner with product-centric co-founders who bring grit, humility, and clock-speed. Together at the whiteboard, they craft category-defining startups. Every company starts in-house, fully seed-funded by our client, before they invite outside investors at Series A.

The Sr. Recruiter is both strategist and doer - shaping our talent brand, leading high-value searches (from co-founders to specialized engineers), and helping portfolio founders make their most critical hires.

In this hands-on role, you’ll work closely with partners and portfolio co-founders to anticipate business needs, build targeted pipelines, and drive end-to-end recruiting strategies. You’ll manage searches from sourcing to close across technical and business functions, and guide key stakeholders through the process. We hope you’re eager to experiment with creative approaches to attract rare talent.

Responsibilities

• Design company-specific recruiting strategy for attracting exceptional talent
• Run full-cycle talent searches for both the client and it’s portfolio companies across engineering, product, and GTM
• Source and engage high-caliber talent using targeted outreach, referrals, and market mapping
• Drive tight hiring processes, ensuring strong calibration, fast feedback loops, and decisive outcomes to raise the hiring bar
• Track pipeline health and recruiting metrics; optimize for speed, quality, and close rate
• Independently test and own talent positioning and messaging, iterating rapidly based on response
• Ensure that we are constantly aware of and responsive to talent market shifts in compensation, availability, and competitor movement

Skills and Qualifications

• 5 - 8+ years of experience, ideally as the first recruiting lead at an early-stage startup
• Proven ability to run highly specialized, search-oriented recruiting efforts for hard-to-find, high-value roles, from early tenure engineering roles to senior CXO level hires
• Strong talent network and credibility within the engineering, product and GTM community
• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence people at all levels in the organization
• A “doer” mentality with the ability to translate vision into action, and a strong growth mindset
• High-energy, proactive, and thrives on hustle
• Confident, credible, able to hold their own in conversations with highly technical or entrepreneurial talent
• Naturally extroverted and eager to build new connections, including in unconventional spaces and with harder-to-reach technical talent
• Structured, data-driven, and creative problem solver
• Comfortable with ambiguity, fast learner, prefers experimentation over stringent playbooks
• Collaborative, ability to influence stakeholders across all organizational levels and challenge constructively

At Premier Talent Partners, we are a people-centered recruitment firm with a strong focus on skills-based hiring. We specialize in placing individuals in roles ranging from entry-level to VP level across various fields, including Customer Success, Sales & Marketing, Finance & Accounting, Administrative, HR, Operations, and Technology. Our expertise spans contract/temporary, temporary-to-permanent, permanent, and employer-of-record services, and we are committed to equitable & inclusive hiring practices on a national scale.

Benefits: Eligible employees may have access to benefits including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, paid holidays, and other company-sponsored programs, subject to eligibility requirements. (If this is a contract role: This position is not eligible for company-sponsored benefits unless otherwise required by law.)

If you have an interest in exploring other positions similar to this one, please note that compensation ranges and benefits offerings may vary by role and assignment.

We do consider applications from qualified candidates with prior arrests and conviction records, in accordance with applicable regulations.

Work authorization: At this time, we are unable to offer employment sponsorship.