Traversal
Technical Recruiter
New York · Senior · Full-time
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About the role
- As a Recruiter, you will own full-cycle hiring for some of Traversal's most critical roles, initially focused on our Engineering, Product, and Design (EPD) team.
- You'll partner directly with hiring managers and founders to define hiring strategy, build and manage pipelines, and deliver an exceptional candidate experience from first outreach through offer.
- You'll join a lean, high-ownership Talent team, with real latitude to build process and bar as we scale.
Responsibilities
- Own full-cycle recruiting for assigned roles, initially within EPD and Research: manage everything from intake through offer, including sourcing, screening, and closing
- Partner with leaders to build hiring strategy: calibrate role scope, must-haves, and success profiles, and translate them into effective sourcing and screening plans
- Build and manage active pipelines by proactively sourcing and engaging top candidates, rather than relying solely on inbound applications
- Drive a best-in-class candidate experience, ensuring every candidate has a thoughtful, well-communicated process
- Improve recruiting process and infrastructure by building playbooks that scale with the team
- comfortable driving process with engineering, product, and design leaders
- We have a collaborative, hard-working culture and are energized by building the future of AI-powered software maintenance.
Requirements
- 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally including technical hiring at a startup or high-growth company
- Demonstrated ability to source and close candidates independently, without heavy reliance on inbound pipelines
- High degree of ownership and comfort operating with ambiguity and limited process
- Genuine curiosity about AI and enterprise software, with the ability to speak credibly to technical candidates
Nice to have
- Recruiting experience at an early-stage (Series A/B) AI or developer tooling startup
- Experience recruiting for applied research or ML-heavy roles
- Familiarity with modern ATS and sourcing tools (e.g., Ashby, LinkedIn Recruiter, Gem)
- Experience recruiting across multiple functions beyond engineering (e.g., go-to-market, operations)
- Experience with AI native recruiting tools (Juicebox, Metaview, etc.)
- Individual compensation is determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.
- Traversal is a place to take on hard, meaningful problems with real ownership from day one.
- You'll work alongside people who challenge you to grow, learn constantly, and help define a new category of infrastructure software.
Compensation
- We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance, and additional benefits.
- The U.S. base salary range for this full-time, in-person role in New York is $170,000 - $250,000, plus equity and benefits.
- Our salary ranges are based on location, level, and role.
- Individual compensation is determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.
- We offer competitive salary and equity packages, health insurance, fertility benefits, a great tech setup stipend and flexible time off.
- Plus in-office snacks, team happy hours and outings, an annual company offsite, and plenty of built in time to collaborate across teams.
Company info
- Our mission is to free engineers from endless firefighting and give them more time to focus on creative, high-impact work.
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