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Principal Recruiter, Tech

United States · Principal

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About the role

Our clients include some of the most innovative organisations in the world - from Google-backed unicorns to Fintech and SaaS scale-ups reshaping their industries.
Our team spans the UK, Germany, Spain, South Africa, and Vietnam.
We're remote-first, globally minded, and deeply collaborative.

Run full-cycle, sourcing-led recruiting and build the pipelines.
Bring an AI-native way of working: you build and experiment with AI tools, you design workflows that make recruiting faster and sharper, and you teach others to do the same.
Own the numbers that matter: pipeline velocity, offer acceptance, and time to hire, without dropping the quality bar.
A track record of building or improving a recruiting function or system, not just contributing to one.
Why This Role Exists As a Principal Talent Partner, you'll play a pivotal role in building world-class technical and product teams for some of the fastest-growing tech companies.
Embedded directly within a client, we have been brought in to lead and accelerate US hiring for a VC-backed, hyper-growth technology company building category-defining products out of Mountain View.

You back yourself, you push back when a search is not scoped to win, and you can carry a room with founders.
You have built workflows, reports, or systems that change how recruiting runs.

Experience with a modern ATS (Ashby a plus) and interview-intelligence tools such as Metaview.
We care more about the instinct to use tools well than the specific logos.
This is probably not for you if You have spent your career inside large, process-driven organisations where the systems were built for you and the brand did the selling.
This seat has no playbook waiting and no inbound to lean on.
pipeline velocity, offer acceptance, and time to hire, without dropping the quality bar.
Lift the standard around you.
What You'll Bring Senior, principal, or founding-recruiter experience at a technology startup or scale-up in a genuine high-growth phase.
You have owned outcomes, not handed off candidates.

We're an embedded talent consultancy on a mission to evolve how businesses recruit.
We believe hiring should be human-centred, data-informed, and impact-driven - creating better outcomes for companies and candidates alike.
They have scaled more than 6x in two years, they are doubling their US team this year, and recruiting is now the constraint on how fast they grow.
This is the Founding recruiting seat on the ground in the US.
You report into a founder-led leadership team that cares deeply about hiring, and you set the standard for how recruiting runs across the US business.
Supported by a squad of sourcing and delivery specialists, you'll combine deep technical curiosity with consultative partnership and a delivery-first mindset.
This role is 3 days a week in the Mountain View office.
In your first twelve months you will Own all US hiring as the lead recruiter on the ground: around 30 roles, the majority technical, alongside senior leadership and executive searches.
Bring time-to-hire down from over 100 days, lift offer acceptance, and build pipelines that do not depend on inbound, because inbound is not enough at this level and you will source the talent yourself.

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