# Principal Associate, Technical Recruiting

**Company**: Capital One Canada
**Location**: Toronto, ON
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $108,900 - 124,300
**Category**: Human Resources
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

As the Principal Technical Recruiter at Capital One Canada, you will shape and execute recruiting strategies for Capital One's most specialized and senior technology roles, including Senior Staff and Distinguished Engineers.

You will partner closely with technology leaders to translate business priorities into targeted hiring plans. Combining market intelligence, creative sourcing, and strong candidate relationships, you will identify and engage exceptional talent ensuring seamless collaboration with internal clients.

Beyond delivering hires, you will use recruiting insights to guide decisions, strengthen stakeholder partnerships, and lead initiatives that improve the recruiting experience for candidates and hiring teams.

**Your Responsibilities:**

- Manage the full lifecycle recruiting process for specialized senior technology roles, from defining hiring requirements and developing compelling job descriptions to sourcing, screening, offer negotiation and marketing Capital One's talent brand to attract top talent.

- Look beyond direct applications and leverage search engines, career sites, recruiting events, and other innovative sourcing techniques to find top tech talent.

- Provide a great end-to-end recruiting experience for candidates and hiring managers.

- Serve as a trusted advisor to technology leaders, aligning strategies with business needs and providing clear recommendations on talent availability, role requirements, and hiring priorities.

- Guide effective candidate selection by conducting screening interviews, facilitating structured interview debriefs, and helping hiring teams make timely, informed decisions.

- Create and extend job offers and close identified candidates.

- Leverage recruiting data to proactively provide status updates and hiring results to leadership and HR partners.

**Basic Qualifications:**

- 5+ years of experience as a full life-cycle recruiter in a corporate environment, preferably within the tech, data and analytics space supporting senior level tech hiring.

- 4+ years of experience collaborating with recruiting managers and peers on sourcing strategies related to tech, data and analytics.

- 3+ years of experience leveraging sourcing tools like LinkedIn Recruiter, Stack Overflow, and Google x-ray searches of X or GitHub.

- 3+ years of experience creating and updating talent maps.

- Experience in compensation and general HR requirements as related to hiring.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Workday experience is a strong asset.

- 2+ years of experience leveraging sourcing tools like LinkedIn Recruiter, Stack Overflow, and Google x-ray searches of Twitter or GitHub.

- 2+ years of experience creating and updating talent maps.

- Experience independently partnering with Director+ leadership on hiring initiatives.

- Ability to influence and drive results in a fast-paced environment.

**Working at Capital One**

- You'll be empowered to take end-to-end ownership of your work and your career, backed by a high-performance, hybrid culture and holistic suite of benefits designed to support your whole self.

- Take ownership of your own potential: Whether you're looking to upskill, pivot into new business areas, or master your craft, you'll have access to tools and mentorship to reach your potential and define your career trajectory.

- Find your rhythm: We believe trust fosters the flexibility and autonomy required to balance personal needs with a focus on high performance. We support a hybrid model – with 3 days in the office per week – that gives room for both collaboration and personal commitments.

- Benefits built for your life: We take a holistic approach to well-being, providing support for you and those who are most important to you. This includes: full coverage for spouses, domestic partners and dependents, a one-time Work From Home allowance to build your comfortable workspace, up to $3,000 in mental health coverage and up to $5,000 in annual tuition subsidies.

## Skills

### Required
- recruitment
- talent acquisition
- sourcing
- candidate relationship management
- HR

### Nice to have
- Workday
- LinkedIn Recruiter
- Stack Overflow
- Google x-ray searches
- talent mapping

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