Contract Senior Recruiter

What You’ll Do

• Manage a full-cycle req load and flex across technical or non-technical hiring depending on background, business need, and team priorities
• Act as a trusted hiring partner who can coach, guide, and challenge hiring managers through req kick-off and talent strategy conversations
• Leverage AI and other tools to improve recruiting quality, speed, insight, and efficiency, with an eye toward macro-level optimization rather than just individual productivity
• Strengthen recruiting operations by identifying friction points, asking smart questions, learning systems quickly, and working through roadblocks with high ownership
• Maintain highly organized, accessible work across documents, systems, trackers, and project artifacts so others can step in, follow, and build on what has been created
• Operate with urgency and thoughtfulness, moving fast without sacrificing judgment, candidate experience, or hiring quality
• Pick up broader recruiting projects as needed and pitch-in to help fill gaps across the team

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years of recruiting experience with meaningful ownership of full-cycle hiring and strong hiring-manager partnership
• Startup recruiting experience where you’ve built and hired teams without big brand backing
• Experience carrying and closing requisitions while also building or improving workflows and infrastructure
• Technical aptitude and systems fluency; able to learn new tools quickly, troubleshoot process gaps, and improve how work gets done – you are building productively with AI and can demonstrate creative ways you’ve leveraged AI to source, automate, and scale yourself (not just point to a feature built into your ATS)
• Strong operator mindset with the ability to build structure, create repeatable processes, and keep work organized and visible
• Demonstrated success filling unique roles that are not a dime a dozen
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence hiring teams, set direction, and create alignment across stakeholders
• Comfort working across ambiguity, shifting priorities, and startup-level pace while still staying thoughtful and intentional
• High curiosity and strong instincts; someone who pushes beyond surface-level answers and understands how seemingly small actions affect the broader system

Attributes That Describe You

• Proactive: You think ahead, anticipate needs, and plan around likely risks or decision points
• Innovative: You think big, experiment, and are willing to test smarter ways of working
• Transparent: You keep the team looped in on meaningful updates, overlapping work, and changes that affect others
• Curious: You dig deeper, ask questions, and push past surface-level understanding
• Scales work: You create structure where it is needed and help others become more rigorous over time
• Intuitive: You understand the likely downstream impact of actions, decisions, and process choices
• Organized: You keeps a clean house and create work product that is accessible, durable, and easy for others to use
• Intentional: You move quickly, but with strong judgement and clear rationale