Strategic Full-Cycle Tech Recruiter

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Outset is seeking a strategic, hands-on Fullcycle Technical Recruiter to help build exceptional technical teams during a critical growth phase. You will own the hiring process from intake through offer acceptance for engineering and technical roles, partnering with hiring managers and leaders to attract, assess, and close high-impact talent.

The ideal candidate combines strong recruiting judgment with excellent sourcing ability, consultative stakeholder management, and a high bar for candidate

Qualifications

• Own full-cycle recruitment for technical roles from kickoff to close.
• Recruit across a range of technical functions.
• Partner with hiring managers and tech leaders to define goals and write job descriptions.
• Build and execute targeted sourcing strategies using LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, communities, referrals and events.
• Conduct high-quality recruiter screens assessing technical alignment, motivation, communication and compensation expectations.
• Guide candidates with timely, clear communication about the company, team, role and growth.
• Coordinate interview logistics with teams to keep loops efficient and candidate-friendly.
• Train interviewers on structured interviewing and fair assessment.
• Facilitate debriefs, synthesize feedback and help teams make timely decisions.
• Lead offer strategy and closing, including compensation discussions.
• Maintain candidate data in ATS and report on pipeline health and risks.
• Use metrics and market data to improve hiring outcomes.
• Share talent-market insights with leadership on compensation trends and competition.
• Help build scalable recruiting infrastructure (guides, scorecards, playbooks, processes).
• Champion inclusive hiring with diverse pipelines and respectful candidate experience.

Responsibilities

• 3-7 years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, ideally within a high-growth startup.
• Demonstrated success hiring for technical roles such as backend, frontend, full-stack, mobile, platform, infrastructure, data, ML, security, DevOps/SRE, or leadership.
• Strong technical fluency: discuss programming languages, frameworks, cloud infra, systems architecture, data platforms, security concepts for recruiting.
• Proven ability to source and close passive candidates for competitive or difficult-to-fill roles.
• Experience partnering with Engineering, Product, Design and executive leaders as a trusted talent advisor.
• Strong interviewing, candidate assessment, negotiation, and closing skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, articulating opportunities clearly.
• Ability to manage multiple searches and changing priorities with high organization.
• Experience using ATS and recruiting tools; Ashby, LinkedIn Recruiter.
• Data-informed mindset: interpret funnels, conversions and market signals.
• Hiring managers view you as a strategic partner to improve calibration and close rates.
• Offers are competitive and accepted at a strong rate.
• Recruiting processes become scalable and data-informed as the company grows.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Technical recruiting

Stakeholder management

Sourcing strategies

Interview coordination

Offer negotiation

Tools

Ashby

LinkedIn Recruiter

GitHub

Job description

Outset is seeking a strategic, hands-on Fullcycle Technical Recruiter to help build exceptional technical teams during a critical growth phase. You will own the hiring process from intake through offer acceptance for engineering and technical roles, partnering with hiring managers and leaders to attract, assess, and close high-impact talent.

The ideal candidate combines strong recruiting judgment with excellent sourcing ability, consultative stakeholder management, and a high bar for candidate