Senior Recruiter (Seattle) - Startup Sales & GTM

Qumulo; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Qumulo, based in Seattle, is seeking a Senior Recruiter to enhance their talent strategy during a hypergrowth phase. This full-cycle role involves collaboration with hiring managers and promoting an outstanding candidate experience.

The ideal candidate will possess 5+ years of recruiting experience, particularly in the cloud and storage industries, and have a data-driven approach to optimizing recruitment processes. A strong background with modern recruiting tools is necessary.

The role offers a competitive salary range of $110,000 - $150,000 plus equity and benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of recruiting experience, particularly in high-growth startup environments.
• Proven success in owning roles across various functions including Sales.
• Experience working with C-level executives and coaching hiring managers.

Responsibilities

• Drive recruiting outcomes for Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, Engineering, and Leadership roles globally.
• Create and execute sourcing strategies to attract top talent.
• Promote Qumulo's employer brand through compelling messaging.

Skills

Recruiting experience

Sourcing skills

Candidate engagement skills

Technical fluency (cloud)

Data-driven mindset

Tools

Greenhouse

Gem

Ashby

SeekOut

Metaview

Juicebox

Clay

Job description

• Join Qumulo in redefining how organizations manage unstructured data
• Play a key role in growing Qumulo as we enter a hypergrowth stage
• Be part of a skilled, fast-paced Recruiting team that champions quality and candidate experience

Qumulo's cloud data platform manages exabytes of the world's most demanding data, unifying files, objects, and every workload across edge, core, and cloud.

About the Senior Recruiter role:

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Recruiter to join our small (but mighty) TA Team. You'll play a key role in growing Qumulo as we enter a hypergrowth stage, while helping to evolve our talent strategy to ensure we continue to attract and hire exceptional people. This is a full-cycle recruiting role balancing creativity with strategic thinking, stakeholder management, and modern tooling to drive the right outcomes from intake to close.

At Qumulo we take a human-centric approach to hiring and are building a recruiting team that deeply understands the cloud and storage ecosystem. If you thrive in high-growth startup environments and take pride in delivering outstanding Candidate (and hiring team) Experience while raising the quality bar, this could be the role for you.

As a Senior Recruiter at Qumulo, you will:

• Be a credible and influential partner with hiring managers to own and drive recruiting outcomes for Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, Engineering and Leadership roles globally
• Develop a deep understanding of the cloud and storage industries, and our competitive landscape, to source and attract the best talent
• Create and execute search and sourcing strategies, including partnering with stakeholders on referral programs, recruitment marketing, social media, and events
• Use modern tools to streamline sourcing, screening, candidate engagement, scheduling, and interview workflows
• Champion CX and best‑practises with Hiring Managers and Interview teams, including requirements calibration, interview process, and objective decision making
• Leverage data to continuously improve recruiting operations, and increase speed without compromising quality.
• Promote Qumulo's employer brand with compelling messaging to candidates, and in Job Ads, social media content, etc.
• Navigate ambiguity confidently, bringing clarity and structure to complex hiring needs
• Collaborate with the People Team on hiring initiatives and strategic business needs

Our ideal Senior Recruiter will have:

• 5+ years of recruiting experience, including proven success in high-growth startup environments where you owned roles across a variety of functions including GTM or Sales
• Exceptional sourcing and candidate engagement skills with hands‑on experience using modern tools and building complex Boolean searches
• Strong technical fluency (cloud, infrastructure, engineering) to understand our needs, engage Hiring Managers and candidates, assess technical skill, and articulate Qumulo’s value proposition to a technical audience
• A data‑driven mindset with a record of optimizing recruiting process through technology, data, and workflow
• The ability to manage multiple competing priorities while maintaining quality, precision, and candidate experience
• Experience working with the C‑level, and coaching hiring managers with credibility and insight
• Deep expertise with modern recruiting tools (Greenhouse, Gem, Ashby, SeekOut, Metaview, Juicebox, Clay, etc.), potentially including integrating new systems into recruiting workflows
• Be able to work onsite in downtown Seattle at least 3 days per week

The annual salary range for this role is $110,000 - $150,000 USD plus pre‑IPO equity and benefits. Individual pay depends on various factors, such as role level, relevant experience and skills. Pay ranges are reviewed and typically updated each year. Offers are made within the pay range applicable at the time.

About Qumulo:

Built for the most demanding enterprise workloads, from AI and HPC simulations to Splunk Observability, genomics and PACS medical imaging, geospatial datasets, media editing and rendering, and video surveillance, Qumulo unlocks the full power of an organization’s information. Our platform unifies file and object storage across data centers, edge, and public clouds, enabling efficient, accelerated computing and extending the reach of data unbound by protocol or transport limitations.

With more than 1,100 customers and exabytes of data under management, Qumulo powers mission‑critical workloads anywhere real‑time access to massive file datasets is non‑negotiable. Qumulo delivers radical simplicity, hardware freedom, exceptional customer support, and a true hybrid‑cloud architecture.

Our Values:

At Qumulo, we are building an open and collaborative culture where people can do their best work with customers as our magnetic field. We act as owners, we share by default, we are data driven and experimental and as an inclusive workplace, we encourage and celebrate multiple points of view. As part of our culture we believe diversity drives innovation.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Qumulo is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, military status, national origin, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or applicable local law. For more information on Qumulo's Applicant Privacy Policy, please visit: https://qumulo.com/applicant-employee-privacy-notice