Technical Recruiter

Rentana; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity options

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Remote work available

Direct leadership access

Job summary

Rentana, a California-based proptech company, is seeking its first in-house recruiter to lead full-cycle hiring for engineering, product, design and data/ML roles. You will own the hiring system, employer brand, and hiring processes as the team grows from the ground floor.

You'll source proactively, run intake with managers, design fair interviews, and ensure a great candidate experience. Remote-friendly, fast-paced startup environment with equity options and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of technical recruiting for software engineers and product roles.
• Startup or high-growth tech environment without a large dedicated recruiting team.
• Proven ability to close senior engineering hires through direct sourcing.
• Strong technical fluency to discuss backend vs platform roles, ML engineers and data scientists.

Responsibilities

• Run full-cycle recruiting for engineering, product, design and data roles.
• Source directly via LinkedIn, GitHub, referrals and personal networks.
• Lead intake meetings with hiring managers and shape job descriptions.
• Design and run structured technical interviews with scorecards.
• Provide candidates with a positive experience and timely feedback.
• Own ATS, track funnel metrics, and optimize time-to-fill and offer success.
• Manage offers and benchmarking for technical roles.
• Build employer brand through careers page, posts, templates, and meetups.
• Decide when to use agencies and manage those relationships.

Skills

Technical recruiting

Direct sourcing

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

Ashby ATS

Job description

The built world generates more data than almost any other industry. Almost none of it is being used. Rentana is changing that, building the AI copilot for real estate that distills billions of real-world signals into revenue intelligence, so operators can optimize every lever across their portfolio and actually talk to their data.

Our founding team has built four multi-billion dollar software companies and two proptech exits, including Dynasty (sold to AppFolio) and Urbandoor (sold to Airbnb). Our founding engineers include the first engineer at Airtable and the engineer who led the largest code migration in Stripe's history.

Customers love Rentana: we are the top-rated revenue management platform on Revyse, with NMHC Top 50 real estate owners and operators on the platform within 1 year of public launch.

Job Summary

You'll be Rentana's first dedicated in-house recruiter, and every product and engineering hire for our next stage of growth will run through you. It's a rare chance to shape a team from close to the ground floor.

You'll also be a big part of how candidates get to know Rentana. You'll tell our story to the engineers, product managers and designers we want to meet, show off the talented technical team already here, and help great people see why this is a place worth building their careers.

Day to day, you'll run full-cycle searches across engineering, product, design and data/ML. Along the way, you'll build the hiring system behind them: the process, the tools, the employer brand and the habits that let us keep hiring great people as we grow. You'll have real ownership, and a team that's excited to work alongside you.

Key Responsibilities

• Run full-cycle recruiting for product and engineering roles, from intake through offer and close.
• Source directly. A big share of our best hires will come from people who aren't looking, so you'll spend real time on outbound through LinkedIn, GitHub, referrals and your own network.
• Run strong intake meetings with hiring managers. Push back when a req is fuzzy, help write job descriptions that say what the job is, and agree on what a great hire looks like before the first screen.
• Design and run our interview process for technical roles. Work with engineering leads on structured interviews, scorecards and take-home or live exercises that are fair to candidates and predictive for us.
• Give every candidate a good experience, whether we hire them or not. Fast replies, clear timelines, honest feedback.
• Own our ATS and recruiting data. Track pipeline health, time to fill, source quality and offer acceptance, and use the numbers to fix what's slow.
• Manage offers and closing, including comp benchmarking for technical roles and handling competing offers.
• Build the employer brand for engineering and product: careers page, job posts, outreach templates, and how we show up at meetups and in technical communities.
• Decide when we use agencies and manage those relationships when we do.
• Train hiring managers and interviewers so the whole team gets better at hiring, not only you.

Qualifications / What You'll Bring

• 4+ years of technical recruiting, with most of that time spent hiring software engineers and product people.
• Experience at a startup or high-growth tech company where you didn't have a big recruiting team or a polished process to lean on.
• A track record of closing senior engineering hires through direct sourcing, not only inbound.
• Enough technical fluency to hold your own with engineers. You don't need to code, but you should know the difference between a backend and a platform engineer, and why an ML engineer and a data scientist aren't the same search.
• Comfort running an ATS (Ashby) and reporting on your own funnel.
• Good judgment about people, and the confidence to tell a hiring manager when you think they're wrong.
• Clear, warm writing. Your outreach messages are the first thing many candidates will ever see from us.

Nice to Have

• You've been the first or only recruiter somewhere before and built the function from scratch.
• Experience hiring AI/ML engineers or data scientists.
• Familiarity with B2B SaaS, proptech or real estate tech.
• An existing network of engineers and product people you can call on day one.

What We Offer

• The opportunity to be part of a pioneering team in a high-growth industry, shaping the future of AI in real estate.
• Direct collaboration with the startup’s top leadership, offering a unique insight into business management and strategic decision-making.
• A competitive salary with equity options.
• Comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Flexible working conditions with the option to work remotely.
• A dynamic, innovative, and supportive work environment.

Company Values

• Fast and Transparent: Speed is a competitive advantage -- but only when paired with transparency. We bias toward action, share information openly, and never let slowness become a default
• Solve It: We don't hand problems back. We take ownership, figure it out, and deliver. Excellence is at the core of everything we do.
• Customer Obsessed: Our customers are the reason we build what we build. We listen closely and let real problems drive our product.
• Candid but kind: We say what we mean, directly and with care. Feedback is a gift. We have the hard conversations, because glossing over the truth doesn't serve anyone.
• Win Together: We share credit, support each other, and leave the ego at the door. The best idea wins, regardless of who had it. When things go wrong, we fix it together -- no blame, just learning.

Application Process

• We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.