Overview In this role you will guide end-to-end technical recruiting for Nominal's engineering and product teams, helping build a high-caliber technical workforce. You'll translate ambiguous needs into clear candidate profiles and sourcing plans, partnering with technical leaders to understand problems and required capabilities. You'll contribute to scalable, repeatable hiring processes and improve interviewing practices for complex domains. This is a chance to shape a mission-critical team that enables rapid progress with safety and precision.
Compensation / Benefits- 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Unlimited PTO and sick leave
- Free lunch, snacks, and coffee
- Professional Development Stipend
- In-office hardware lab with a $250 project stipend
- Annual company retreat
Responsibilities- Own complex technical searches across Software, Infrastructure, AI, and related areas
- Lead full-cycle recruiting and build targeted strategies for competitive talent pools
- Develop and maintain relationships with passive candidates and active seekers
- Translate hiring needs into role definitions, sourcing plans, and compelling job descriptions
- Partner with engineering/product leaders to understand problems and required capabilities
- Create clear assessment criteria and structured interview strategies
- Improve recruiting processes, calibration, and candidate experience for scale
Key requirements- 4+ years of technical recruiting experience in startups or high-performance tech environments
- Experience recruiting software engineers and other technical profiles
- Ability to learn technical concepts quickly and distinguish meaningful experience from keywords
- Ability to turn ambiguous hiring needs into candidate profiles, search strategies, and assessment plans
- Strong sourcing instincts and existing network in technical talent markets
- Comfort forming a point of view and challenging assumptions with hiring managers
- Full-cycle recruiter with capacity to source, assess, negotiate, and close
- High agency and ability to progress without a perfectly defined process
- strong communication
- stakeholder management
- strategic thinking
- full-cycle technical recruiting
- technical assessment design and scorecards
- market data-driven recruiting
