Technical Recruiter

Code Red Partners; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Best-in-class compensation and uncaps

Unlimited PTO

401(k)

Training and Development program

Full medical, dental, and vision

Home-office stipend

Access to our Offices

Annual company all-hands

Annual incentive trips

Job summary

Code Red Partners is seeking a Senior/Principal Recruiter to join its cybersecurity and defense tech practice. You will operate as a true search partner, owning strategy, market mapping, and long-term client relationships to drive searches from kickoff to close.

You’ll partner with Tier 1 venture-backed tech companies, shaping searches, building candidate networks, and delivering a best-in-class experience for clients and candidates.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of agency recruiting or executive search experience in technology.
• Exceptional headhunting, market-mapping, networking, and candidate-engagement skills.
• Comfortable building trusted relationships with senior executives, founders, investors, and talent leaders.
• Commercially minded with the ability to understand both the client’s business and the broader talent market.

Responsibilities

• Own the full lifecycle of searches from mapping to close.
• Partner with clients to define search strategy and compensation.
• Develop understanding of cybersecurity and defense tech leadership landscape.
• Deliver a best-in-class candidate and client experience.
• Build relationships with Tier 1 VCs and portfolio companies.

Skills

Headhunting

Market mapping

Networking

Candidate engagement

Executive search

Job description

Code Red Partners is a specialist search firm focused on cybersecurity, defense tech, and technology recruitment.

Since launching in 2018, we’ve built a reputation for partnering with some of the world’s most ambitious, high-growth technology companies, including Databricks, Perplexity, Coinbase, and other AI-forward and category-defining businesses.

We work intimately with Tier 1 venture capital firms and their portfolio companies, acting as a trusted search partner for critical hires. Our work spans cybersecurity, defense tech, robotics, hardware, and more. We’re an ambitious, high-performing team and are looking for exceptional recruiting talent to help us continue scaling our practice.

The Role

We’re hiring a Senior/Principal Recruiter to join our growing cybersecurity or defense tech search practice.

You’ll be expected to operate as a true search partner: deeply understanding the market, mapping top-tier talent, building long-term relationships, advising clients, and managing searches from initial strategy through successful close.

There is significant opportunity to help shape and scale one of Code Red’s highest-growth practices.

How You’ll Help Us Be Successful

• Own the full lifecycle of searches, from market mapping and research through candidate engagement, assessment, offer, and close.
• Partner closely with clients to define search strategy, candidate profiles, market positioning, and compensation.
• Develop a strong understanding of the cybersecurity, defense tech, and broader technology leadership landscape.
• Deliver a best-in-class candidate and client experience throughout every search.
• Become a trusted advisor to clients rather than simply a recruiting vendor.
• Build relationships with Tier 1 VCs and their portfolio companies, supporting leadership hiring across some of the fastest-growing businesses in technology.

Does This Sound Like You?

• 5+ years of agency recruiting or executive search experience, ideally within technology.
• Exceptional headhunting, market-mapping, networking, and candidate-engagement skills.
• Comfortable developing trusted relationships with senior executives, founders, investors, and talent leaders.
• Commercially minded with the ability to understand both the client’s business and the broader talent market.
• High agency, ambitious, and comfortable taking ownership of complex searches.
• Passionate about delivering an exceptional experience rather than operating in a transactional recruiting environment.

Highly competitive base salary + uncapped commission

• Best-in-class compensation and commission structure
• Unlimited PTO
• 401(k)
• Dedicated Training and Development program
• Full medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Home-office stipend
• Access to our Offices
• Annual company all-hands across location including NYC, Miami, London, San Francisco, and Denver
• Annual incentive trips — this year’s destination is the Bahamas

If you’re an experienced executive recruiter who wants to work on genuinely high-impact searches, build relationships with some of the best founders and investors in technology, and help scale a specialist search practice, we’d love to hear from you.