Overview As Recruiting Manager, Engineering, you will lead a hands on, player coach engineering recruiting team and own a portfolio of critical engineering roles. You'll develop the team, shape recruiting strategies, and directly recruit for senior and specialized engineering positions. You will partner with engineering leadership to align workforce plans with business priorities, driving a fast paced, data driven hiring process. This role sits at the intersection of hardware, manufacturing, and deep tech domains and offers meaningful impact shaping Divergent's engineering talent pipeline.
Compensation / Benefits- competitive salary
- equity plan
- incentive bonus opportunities
- paid vacation, sick time, holidays
- paid parental leave
- comprehensive health benefits (HMO and PPO) with life insurance and disability
Responsibilities- Lead, coach, and develop a team of engineering recruiters; establish performance expectations and pipeline discipline
- Own full-cycle recruiting for assigned engineering roles, including senior and difficult fills
- Partner with hiring managers for intake, profiles, interview plans, and recruiting strategies
- Proactively source passive talent through LinkedIn Recruiter, Greenhouse, referrals, and other channels
- Manage interview process, offers, and onboarding handoff while maintaining candidate experience
- Drive recruiting strategy with Engineering leadership; translate priorities into execution plans
- Monitor metrics, optimize processes, and ensure data accuracy in Greenhouse
- Balance requisition load with team capacity and business priorities
- Provide coaching on difficult searches and stakeholder management
- Improve recruiting operations through apps, automation, and consistent practices
Key requirements- 8+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience with engineering or technical talent
- 2+ years of direct people leadership or recruiter development
- Proven success sourcing and closing hard-to-find engineering talent
- Experience managing recruiters while handling active requisitions preferred
- Background in aerospace, automotive, advanced manufacturing, robotics, hardware, defense, or deep-tech environments
- Strong technical sourcing and passive candidate engagement
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and allocate resources by business need
- Data-driven with experience using recruiting metrics to drive decisions
- Strong stakeholder management with senior leaders and technical hiring managers
- Experience with applicant tracking systems; Greenhouse and LinkedIn Recruiter preferred
- Strong written, verbal, organizational, and analytical skills
- stakeholder management
- coaching and people leadership
- clear communication
- LinkedIn Recruiter
- Greenhouse
- applicant tracking systems
