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Founding Technical Recruiter

Allocate - Palo Alto, CA, USA - Hybrid - posted 2026-10-05

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Salary: USD 180,000 - 210,000 / annual

Allocate is building the operating system for private markets, enabling wealth advisors and their clients to access, transact in, and manage private market investments. The platform supports 350+ advisory firms and 1,500+ GP relationships with $5B+ in assets. Allocate is hiring its first dedicated, in-house technical recruiter to own full-cycle recruiting for engineering, product, and design teams. This is a hands-on, individual-contributor role that will scale into a team function as the company grows. You will partner directly with founders, the CTO, and engineering leaders to translate hiring needs into structured, repeatable processes. Responsibilities include: - Own full-cycle recruiting across engineering, product, and design teams, from role scoping and sourcing strategy through offer and close, including senior and specialized roles requiring significant judgment and market fluency. - Design and run structured interview processes with interviewer-specific guides, behavioral question banks, and competency-mapped scorecards to reduce bias and improve hiring signal. - Coach and train hiring managers and interviewers to build internal recruiting capability and consistency. - Manage external recruiting partners and agencies to ensure consistent candidate experience and process discipline. - Execute advanced outbound sourcing to identify and access hard-to-find, passive, and niche candidates using Boolean search and creative sourcing channels. - Build sourcing strategy and evaluate AI-powered tools to increase pipeline efficiency. - Shape Allocate's talent and employer brand through positioning, storytelling, and candidate-facing materials. - Partner with the People team on talent operations, workflows, reporting, and process discipline. - Champion inclusive, high-integrity hiring practices as a founding value. Requirements: - 10+ years in talent acquisition with direct experience recruiting across engineering, product, data/research, and design functions. - Proven track record designing and deploying structured interviewing frameworks from scratch, including behavioral question banks, scorecards, and interviewer training. - Hands-on expertise in outbound sourcing for hard-to-reach candidates, including advanced Boolean search, creative sourcing channels, and market mapping. - Experience evaluating and deploying AI-powered sourcing and recruiting tools. - Experience managing or coordinating external recruiting partners alongside internal pipelines. - Track record building talent/employer branding and talent communities that generate inbound interest. - Experience building scalable talent operations infrastructure (workflows, reporting, process discipline). - Comfort operating as a function of one in early-stage environments while designing systems that scale. - Demonstrated commitment to inclusive hiring and diverse candidate pipelines. - ATS selection, implementation, or migration experience is a strong plus.

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