Senior Technical Recruiter

About The Company

Twenty Technologies is an industrialization company focused on offensive cyber operations for the U.S. and its allies. Founded in 2024, Twenty has raised $138M from prominent investors including Accel, Caffeinated Capital, and others. Our mission is to ensure American and allied primacy in cyberspace.

Role Summary

We are seeking a Senior Technical Recruiter to build our New York engineering presence. This role involves sourcing heavy recruiting for senior software engineers and technical hires, establishing the recruiting motion, candidate network, and local market presence. You'll partner closely with engineering leadership to define hiring priorities, shape pipelines, and close exceptional technical talent in highly competitive markets.

Who You Are

• Have a sourcing-first mindset: turn cold outreach into real pipelines and hires.
• Strong judgment on technical signal and quick calibration with engineering leaders.
• Communicate crisply and operate with urgency.
• Build from scratch and thrive in startup ambiguity.
• Operate with operational rigor: clear funnels, measurable goals, reliable follow-through, scalable recruiting processes.
• Balanced high standards with strong candidate experience and stakeholder management.
• Create a fast, clear, and high-touch candidate experience without sacrificing standards.
• Use AI and automation thoughtfully to scale work and reduce overhead.
• Energized by helping build something new and establishing a strong technical hiring presence in a new market.

What You’ll Do

• Own full-cycle recruiting for senior Software Engineering hires, from intake through close.
• Build and scale outbound sourcing pipelines for high-priority engineering roles.
• Lead high-touch closing efforts for competitive senior engineering candidates.
• Partner with engineering leaders to define hiring strategy, interview design, scorecards, and candidate calibration.
• Source across outbound channels, technical communities, referrals, events, and targeted market research.
• Keep recruiting pipelines moving with strong process management, fast feedback loops, and clear communication.
• Improve recruiting assets including outreach messaging, candidate prep materials, and closing narratives.
• Apply AI-driven workflows and tooling to augment sourcing, coordination, and recruiting operations with strong judgment.

Must Have

• 5+ years of experience recruiting for Software Engineering roles.
• Consistently built sourcing-heavy pipelines and generated qualified technical candidates through outbound recruiting.
• Closed passive senior engineering candidates in highly competitive markets.
• Ran full-cycle recruiting processes from intake through offer and close.
• Experience recruiting senior and staff-level engineering talent in competitive hiring markets.
• Partnered effectively with technical stakeholders and calibrated quickly on engineering talent.
• Metrics-driven and used funnel data to improve recruiting outcomes.
• Executed with precision: strong ATS hygiene, reliable follow-ups, tight process management.
• Comfortable working in the New York City area as we build our local office presence.

Nice To Have

• Experience helping establish or scale hiring efforts in a new office or geographic market.
• Experience recruiting for high-caliber engineering teams at startups or growth-stage companies.
• Familiarity with structured interviewing, scorecards, and interviewer calibration.
• Experience recruiting across backend, distributed systems, AI/ML, or infrastructure-focused engineering teams.
• Experience scaling sourcing and recruiting workflows with AI tools and automation.
• Existing network within the New York engineering talent market.

Benefits

• Health, medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Life/AD&D, disability coverage.
• Paid parental leave.
• Vacation, paid holidays, and flexible PTO.
• 401(k) with pre-tax and Roth options.
• HSA/FSA options, dependent care FSA.

Compensation Range

$151K - $224K