OpenTable
Principal Technical Recruiter
San Francisco, CA · Principal
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About the role
- Our world-class technology empowers restaurants to focus on what matters most - their team, their guests, and their bottom line - while enabling diners to discover and book the perfect restaurant for every occasion.
- You will serve as a trusted advisor to senior executive leadership, leveraging recruitment analytics and market intelligence to shape our workforce strategy.
- In this role, you will combine high-touch, executive-level candidate experiences with hands-on sourcing and complex offer negotiations.
Responsibilities
- Partner directly with senior leadership, including Directors, VPs, SVPs, to design baseline hiring criteria, forecast workforce needs, and provide data-driven advisory on competitive market conditions.
- Execute advanced sourcing and market mapping strategies to build robust pipelines of passive, high-caliber talent across software engineering, infrastructure, data science, and research domains.
- Lead complex offer negotiations and construct competitive compensation packages while delivering a white-glove candidate experience from outreach to onboarding.
Requirements
- 8+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, ideally in-house within high-growth or enterprise technology environments.
- Demonstrated expertise in navigating and executing complex, high-level offer negotiations and compensation structuring.
Nice to have
- Experience designing and standing up various hiring initiatives and inclusive sourcing programs within technical organizations.
- Proven experience establishing standardized interview rubrics and scalable talent assessment frameworks.
- Background in direct mentorship or formal coaching of talent acquisition team members and sourcers.
- Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
- Company-paid subscription to Headspace
- Paid volunteer time
- Focus on your career growth:
- Development Dollars
Compensation
- Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
- Annual company-wide week off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)
Benefits
- Paid parental leave
- Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
- Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives within the technical recruitment pipeline to ensure fair and comprehensive sourcing strategies.
Company info
- Every employee at OpenTable has a tangible impact on what we do and how we do it.
- You'll also be part of a global team that includes and its portfolio of metasearch brands.
- Hospitality is all about taking care of others, and it defines our culture.
This listing is sourced directly from OpenTable's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.