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Salary: USD 179,400 - 218,000 / annual
Babylist, a $750M revenue company expanding into new verticals, 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. Day-to-day responsibilities include full-cycle recruiting for complex, high-impact roles; building and maintaining hiring intelligence infrastructure (pipeline dashboards, funnel analysis, finals trackers); presenting data-driven hiring trends and recommendations to leadership; and driving offer strategy on difficult-to-close situations involving above-band requests, counter-offers, and role upleveling.
Beyond individual searches, you will design and run team capability programs including peer screen reviews, calibration sessions, and recruiter coaching to raise quality across the technical talent acquisition function. You'll manage external agency partnerships using performance metrics you build and track, and actively shape how engineering and product leadership thinks about hiring calibration and process.
The ideal candidate brings 10+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting without dedicated sourcing support, deep technical fluency to probe engineering impact, and proven experience navigating complex offer situations with first-principles compensation strategy. You have hiring manager-level judgment, mentor other recruiters, and have built lasting tools or frameworks for your team. You're genuinely curious about market dynamics, engineering excellence, and candidate fit, and you naturally leverage AI to move faster and improve output.
This role offers real influence without a title change. You'll own the hardest searches with full autonomy, write the playbook for roles other recruiters can't yet calibrate, and build infrastructure that becomes how the entire tech TA function operates.
