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OpenAI's Recruiting team is seeking an experienced Senior Technical Recruiter to support the Applied Foundations engineering organization. This role focuses on hiring engineering managers and senior engineering leaders who will build and scale OpenAI's foundational engineering capabilities.
You will own full-cycle leadership searches, serving as a trusted advisor to senior engineering leaders throughout the hiring process. Your responsibilities include:
- Lead end-to-end searches for engineering managers and senior engineering leaders, from role definition through offer close
- Partner with hiring leaders to define role scope, leadership expectations, technical requirements, and success outcomes
- Develop talent maps and targeted search strategies using direct sourcing, referrals, market research, and relationship building
- Engage passive leadership candidates through thoughtful outreach and substantive conversations about experience, motivations, and impact potential
- Assess leadership capabilities including team building, manager development, technical direction-setting, and change leadership
- Advise senior stakeholders using market intelligence and search evidence, recommending adjustments to requirements or hiring approach when needed
- Own complex closing strategies, navigating competing offers, equity considerations, counteroffers, and career decisions
- Maintain rigorous operating rhythm across searches with clear progress communication and consistent candidate experience
- Strengthen leadership recruiting practices by sharing insights and helping teammates navigate challenging searches
You should bring substantial technical recruiting experience with a demonstrated track record of personally owning and closing engineering leadership searches. Executive search or in-house leadership recruiting experience is particularly valuable. You can evaluate leadership scope beyond titles, build credibility with senior engineering leaders, and manage complex offers. You combine strategic judgment with strong sourcing and execution skills, learn unfamiliar technical domains quickly, and communicate clearly while handling sensitive information thoughtfully.
Requirements:
- Substantial technical recruiting experience with demonstrated track record of personally owning and closing engineering leadership searches
- Experience in executive search, in-house leadership recruiting, or comparable environment requiring targeted research, senior stakeholder partnership, and discretion
- Ability to evaluate leadership scope beyond titles and partner with hiring managers to distinguish technical expertise, people leadership, and organizational impact
- Credibility with senior engineering leaders and ability to offer clear recommendations, including constructive pushback when needed
- Successful experience managing complex offers and understanding how compensation, role scope, organizational context, and personal motivations influence leadership candidate decisions
- Strategic judgment combined with strong sourcing and execution skills, taking ownership from search kickoff through close
- Ability to learn unfamiliar technical domains quickly and adapt effectively as priorities or role requirements evolve
- Clear communication, thoughtful handling of sensitive information, and willingness to approach feedback with humility
