Senior Strategic Engineering Talent Partner

Health Data Innovations, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Hinge Health is seeking a Senior Talent Partner for Engineering to shape and lead full-cycle recruiting across software, hardware, data science, and data platforms. You will partner with senior engineering leaders, translate business priorities into talent strategies, and deliver exceptional hiring outcomes in a high-bar environment.

You’ll build strong pipelines, leverage market insights, and ensure a thoughtful, high-quality candidate experience from initial touch to close, influencing

Qualifications

• 3+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting or talent partnership experience.
• Experience partnering with senior engineering hiring managers and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Proven success sourcing and hiring passive technical talent in competitive markets.
• Strong experience using recruiting data to influence decisions, improve processes, and solve hiring challenges.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build credibility quickly and handle challenging stakeholder dynamics with sound judgment.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting for engineering roles—from intake and calibration through offer close.
• Partner with engineering leaders to define role scope, level, and search strategy based on business needs and market reality.
• Build and manage high-quality pipelines for technical talent, including passive candidate outreach.
• Use recruiting data and funnel insights to diagnose bottlenecks and improve hiring efficiency.
• Lead calibration conversations when hiring teams need to reassess expectations around level, compensation, or candidate profile.
• Create an excellent candidate experience by ensuring clear communication and strong process management.
• Influence longer-term headcount planning by bringing technical talent market insights into workforce planning.
• Help improve hiring quality by refining job descriptions and interview process design.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Stakeholder management

Technical recruiting

Data-driven decisions

Candidate experience

Job description

About the Role

Hinge Health is looking for a strategic, high-judgment Senior Talent Partner to lead engineering recruiting. This is a high-impact role for someone who knows how to partner closely with senior engineering leaders, translate business priorities into clear talent strategies, and deliver exceptional hiring outcomes in a high-bar environment.

In this role, you will own full-cycle recruiting for technical roles across software engineering, hardware, data science, and/or data platform, serving as a true thought partner to leaders across the engineering organization. You will shape search strategy, calibrate hiring plans, use market insights to influence decisions, and ensure candidates have a thoughtful, high-quality experience from first touch through close.

This role is a strong fit for someone who is equal parts operator and advisor: someone who can move quickly, work through ambiguity, challenge assumptions with data, and build trust with demanding technical stakeholders.

What You’ll Do

• Own full-cycle recruiting for engineering roles across software engineering, hardware, data science, and/or data platform—from intake and calibration through offer close and handoff.

• Partner with engineering leaders to define role scope, level, and search strategy based on business needs and market reality.

• Build and manage high-quality pipelines for technical talent, including passive candidate outreach in highly competitive markets.

• Use recruiting data and funnel insights to diagnose bottlenecks, improve hiring efficiency, and drive better decision-making with stakeholders.

• Lead thoughtful calibration conversations when hiring teams need to reassess expectations around level, compensation, or candidate profile.

• Create an excellent candidate experience by ensuring clear communication, strong process management, and a high-touch, respectful approach throughout the interview journey.

• Influence longer-term headcount planning by bringing technical talent market insights and hiring data into workforce planning conversations.

• Help improve hiring quality by refining job descriptions, interview process design, and stakeholder alignment where needed.

What Makes You a Great Fit

• You are a strong strategic partner, not an order-taker. You know how to influence senior technical stakeholders, push on assumptions, and guide teams toward better hiring decisions.

• You bring strong technical recruiting judgment. You understand how to assess talent across software engineering, hardware, data science, and data platform domains and tailor search strategy to different levels, problem spaces, and team needs.

• You are highly data-driven. You use funnel metrics, market signals, and process data to identify issues and improve outcomes.

• You care deeply about candidate experience and know that high standards and high humanity should go together.

• You are agile, organized, and comfortable juggling multiple priorities without losing quality or momentum.

• You are energized by high-bar environments and know how to operate well with senior, discerning engineering teams.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting or talent partnership experience, with meaningful experience supporting hiring across software engineering, hardware, data science, or data platform functions.

• Track record of partnering with senior engineering hiring managers and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver against complex hiring goals.

• Demonstrated success sourcing and hiring passive technical talent in competitive markets.

• Strong experience using recruiting data to influence decisions, improve processes, and solve hiring challenges.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build credibility quickly and handle challenging stakeholder dynamics with sound judgment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience recruiting technical talent across software, hardware, or data domains in a fast-paced, high-growth, or mission-driven environment.

• Experience supporting engineering leaders through org design, workforce planning, or talent mapping conversations.

• Experience improving technical interview process design, calibration, and candidate experience at the function level.

• Familiarity with healthcare, digital health, or other complex hardware and software environments.

Why This Role

This is an opportunity to have an outsized impact on one of the most vital parts of the business: building the engineering and data organization. The role is high visibility—you will work closely with senior technical leaders, help shape hiring strategy in a high-expectation environment, and play a visible role in raising the bar on technical talent across the organization.

Hinge Health Hybrid Model

We believe that remote work and in-person work have their own advantages and disadvantages, and we want to be able to leverage the best of both worlds. Employees in hybrid roles are required to be in the office 3 days per week, for the full 8 hours of a typical business day. The San Francisco office has a dog-friendly workplace program.

About Hinge Health

At Hinge Health, we’re using technology to scale and automate the delivery of healthcare, starting with musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions, which affect over 1.7 billion people worldwide. Our AI-powered, human-centered care model spans MSK, pelvic health, gastrointestinal (GI) and migraine care. With over 60 partnerships with health plans, PBMs and other ecosystem partners, Hinge Health is available to over 25 million people across more than 2,900 employers. The company is headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in Montreal and Bangalore. Learn more at hingehealth.com.

What You’ll Love About Us

• Inclusive healthcare and benefits: On top of comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, we offer employees and their family members help with gender-affirming care, tools for family and fertility planning, and travel reimbursements if healthcare isn’t available where you live.

• Planning for the future: Start saving for the future with our traditional or Roth 401k retirement plan options which include a 2% company match.

• Modern life stipends: Manage your own learning and development.

• Grow with us: Grow with us through discounted company stock through our ESPP with easy payroll deductions.

Culture & Engagement

Hinge Health is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We make employment decisions without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. We provide reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities. If you feel you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, let us know by reaching out to your recruiter.

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