Lead Recruiter

About the role

The Lead Recruiter position at Critical Loop is a critical role in driving the company's growth and innovation. As the first dedicated recruiter, you will be responsible for full-cycle recruiting across various business functions, including engineering, operations, manufacturing, corporate functions, and leadership roles. Your responsibilities will involve sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer management, and candidate experience. You will also work closely with hiring managers to define hiring strategies, build interview plans, and calibrate candidate profiles. Additionally, you will help build and maintain talent pipelines for difficult-to-fill positions and continuously improve the recruiting processes.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting across technical and non-technical roles, including sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer management, and candidate experience.
• Partner with hiring managers to define hiring strategies, conduct intake meetings, build interview plans, and calibrate candidate profiles.
• Build proactive talent pipelines for recurring and difficult-to-fill positions before hiring needs become urgent.
• Develop sourcing strategies that leverage LinkedIn Recruiter, networking, referrals, communities, and creative outreach techniques.
• Own recruiting operations within Ashby, including job creation, interview scheduling workflows, reporting, scorecards, templates, and process documentation.
• Continuously improve interview processes, candidate communications, hiring manager enablement, and recruiting metrics.
• Track recruiting analytics including time-to-fill, pipeline conversion, sourcing effectiveness, and hiring manager satisfaction.
• Partner with the People & Talent Lead on onboarding improvements, employer initiatives, and People Operations projects that improve the employee experience.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to hiring managers by challenging assumptions, improving interview quality, and helping teams make better hiring decisions.
• Identify patterns across searches and recommend improvements to recruiting strategy, compensation positioning, interview design, and talent planning.

Requirements

• 3+ years of full-cycle in-house recruiting experience across multiple business functions.
• Demonstrated success sourcing passive candidates and building talent pipelines for difficult-to-fill positions.
• Experience partnering directly with hiring managers throughout the hiring process, from intake through offer acceptance.
• Strong interviewing and candidate assessment skills with the ability to evaluate both technical capability and long-term organizational fit.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Highly organized with outstanding follow-through and attention to detail.
• Comfortable managing multiple concurrent searches while maintaining an exceptional candidate experience.
• Experience using modern ATS platforms (Ashby preferred, Greenhouse, Lever, or equivalent acceptable).

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience recruiting for engineering, manufacturing, hardware, or operations organizations.
• Experience working at a Series A, Series B, or other high-growth startup.
• Experience building or improving recruiting processes, interview frameworks, scorecards, or hiring documentation.
• Experience partnering with People Operations beyond recruiting, including onboarding, recruiting analytics, or manager enablement.
• Experience developing recruiting dashboards or using recruiting metrics to improve hiring outcomes.
• Experience with compensation benchmarking and offer strategy.
• Experience mentoring hiring managers on interviewing best practices.
• Demonstrates curiosity beyond recruiting by identifying opportunities to improve hiring, onboarding, hiring manager enablement, and People Operations processes.

Benefits

Critical Loop offers a competitive compensation range of $95K - $115K, along with a comprehensive benefits package that includes health insurance, retirement savings options, paid time off, and more. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.