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Salary: USD 119,000 - 172,000 / annual
SeatGeek is modernizing the live events ticketing industry. As Lead Technical Recruiter, you will own full lifecycle hiring for the company's most complex and high-visibility technical searches, including senior and staff-level engineers, data and ML specialists, product managers, and designers. Many of these roles have undefined hiring bars, talent mapping, and sourcing channels—you will build the playbooks and strategies from scratch.
You will operate as a talent advisor and strategic partner to R&D and Product leadership, bringing market data and pipeline evidence into every conversation. You'll facilitate communication with executive stakeholders, raise team standards, and explore how AI is transforming recruiting practices.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own complex technical and product searches from intake through close, including niche, emerging, and confidential roles, partnering with recruiting leadership on executive searches
- Build sourcing strategies from scratch through market mapping, competitive research, and targeted outbound campaigns while managing multiple high-complexity searches
- Advise on compensation and offer strategy; close candidates in competitive markets
- Serve as trusted advisor to senior engineering, data, and product leaders, shaping role scope, leveling, interview design, and hiring strategy
- Lead intake and calibration to establish hiring bars; use market evidence to reset expectations when searches stall
- Influence headcount planning by bringing market, compensation, and organizational context to decisions
- Use funnel, pipeline, and time-to-fill data to diagnose search challenges and adjust strategy in real time
- Test and adopt AI across sourcing, screening, outreach, and scheduling; scale what works and retire what doesn't
- Build reusable playbooks, market intelligence, and best practices that elevate the broader recruiting team
- Mentor recruiters and sourcers on sourcing, stakeholder management, and closing
- Set the standard for collaboration, adaptability, and execution as priorities shift
This role reports to the Director of Talent Acquisition and offers significant autonomy to shape how the team operates.
Requirements:
- 8+ years of full lifecycle technical recruiting, including senior and staff-level IC hiring at a fast-growing technology company
- Depth across engineering, data and ML, product, and design, with fluency to credibly engage senior candidates
- Track record of building approach from scratch on searches where role, bar, or market was undefined
- Strategic sourcing skill: market mapping, talent intelligence, and outbound that builds pipeline without relying on inbound or agencies
- Fluency with recruiting data and tools including Greenhouse, Gem, LinkedIn Recruiter, and ModernLoop or similar; ability to build custom views and use metrics to make and defend decisions
- Executive presence and ability to influence without authority, grounded in real understanding of the business
- Curiosity and aptitude for new technology; demonstrated experience putting AI to work in your own workflow
- Reputation as a teammate who mentors, shares knowledge, and raises team standards
