Technical Recruiter (Contract)

Boulevard Recruiting; United States; Remote; USD 75,000 - 125,000; Part time

Job summary

Boulevard Recruiting partners with VC-backed startups to scale technical teams as a boutique talent partner. We are remote first and operate with a focus on joy and excellence.

Responsibilities include owning full cycle recruiting for multiple client startups across various technical roles, sourcing passive candidates, and partnering with founders and engineering leaders to calibrate role expectations. You will run structured interviews and keep clients updated with regular reports.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of technical recruiting experience, agency or in-house.
• Ability to manage multiple searches across client cultures and tech stacks.
• Strong sourcing skills using Boolean, GitHub, niche communities.
• Ability to discuss technical work credibly with engineers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with founders and CTOs.

Responsibilities

• Own full cycle recruiting for multiple client startups across roles (full stack, backend, frontend, ML/AI, DevOps, platform, data engineering).
• Source passive candidates beyond inbound applications.
• Partner with founders, CTOs, and engineering managers to define role expectations.
• Run structured interviews and provide regular updates to clients.
• Track pipeline health in Ashby and flag risks early.
• Represent Boulevard’s brand and standards in conversations with candidates.

Skills

Technical recruiting

Sourcing

Tech conversations

Communication

Organization

Tools

Ashby

Job description

Technical Recruiter (Contract)

About Boulevard Recruiting

Boulevard partners with VC-backed startups and their investors to scale technical teams. We’re a boutique talent partner, not a high-volume staffing shop. We treat recruiting like a product: designed, measured, and always improving, so clients get volume and quality without trading one for the other. Founded in 2019 by Anneli Scopazzi, who built early recruiting teams at Figma and Palantir, we’re remote first, meet up in person as a team, and run on two values: joy and excellence.

Responsibilities

• Own full cycle recruiting for technical roles across multiple client startups at once (full stack, backend, frontend, ML/AI, DevOps, platform, data engineering)

• Source passive candidates through real sourcing work (LinkedIn, GitHub, niche communities, referrals), not just inbound review

• Partner directly with founders, CTOs, and engineering managers to build role scorecards and calibrate on what “great” looks like for their team

• Run structured interview processes and keep clients in the loop the way founders want it: action items after every meeting, weekly and monthly reports, daily Slack updates, so no one’s ever wondering what’s happening in their search

• Track pipeline health in Ashby and flag risk early, before a search stalls

• Represent Boulevard’s brand and standards in every candidate conversation, even while embedded inside a client’s team

Requirements

• 3+ years of technical recruiting experience, agency or in-house, with a track record of closing engineering hires at startups

• Comfort running multiple searches at once across different client cultures and tech stacks

• Strong sourcing skills. Boolean, GitHub, niche community sourcing, whatever gets you to candidates other recruiters miss

• The ability to talk credibly with engineers about their work, even if you don’t write code yourself

• Excellent written and verbal communication. You represent Boulevard directly to founders and CTOs

• Sharp organization and attention to detail. Candidates and clients never go quiet on you

Nice to have

• Experience recruiting for AI/ML, healthtech, or fintech infrastructure companies

• In-house recruiting experience at a high-growth startup

• Experience with Ashby or a similar modern ATS

Why join us?

• Remote first. We care about the work, not the location

• Conversion path to permanent employee (full-time or part-time hours!)

• Direct access to founders and VCs building category-defining companies

• A team that actually holds “joy and excellence” as values

A note from Anneli, our founder

Recruiting is a people business running at startup speed, in the middle of an AI boom where founders are obsessive by necessity. It’s not easy. But it’s incredible how much you learn working this closely with so many different people and functions. Reputation is everything here. When we screw up, we own it, full accountability, always. My team is talented, smart, and values aligned, genuinely some of the best people I’ve worked with in over 10 years in this industry. If that sounds like you, come build with us.