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Babylist, a $750M revenue consumer platform serving expecting and new families, is seeking a Principal Technical Recruiter to own the company's most strategically important technical hiring. This is a senior individual contributor role focused on recruiting senior, staff, and director-level engineers, principal product managers, and emerging AI/Builder profiles.
You will serve as a trusted strategic advisor to engineering and product leadership, not a service function. Your responsibilities span full-cycle recruiting for complex, high-impact roles; building hiring intelligence infrastructure including pipeline dashboards and funnel analysis tools; presenting data-driven insights and recommendations to leadership; and designing team capability programs that raise quality standards across the technical talent acquisition function.
Key responsibilities include: owning offer strategy for difficult-to-close situations (above-band requests, counter-offer negotiations, role upleveling); managing external agency partnerships using performance metrics; building and maintaining hiring trackers and analytics systems; conducting peer screen reviews and calibration sessions; and actively shaping how engineering and product leadership approach hiring calibration and process.
You bring 10+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, with demonstrated ability to evaluate engineering impact and distinguish elite technologists from strong practitioners. You have experience navigating complex compensation situations, including above-band justifications and counter-offers at 2-3x competing offers. You've mentored other recruiters and built lasting operational tools or frameworks. You operate with hiring manager-level judgment, pushing back on miscalibrated searches and making autonomous decisions in ambiguous situations. You're genuinely curious about market dynamics, engineering excellence, and candidate fit. You actively use AI in your recruiting workflow and stay informed about emerging capabilities.
