# Director, Technical Recruiting

**Company**: Headway
**Location**: Remote - New York; San Francisco, California, United States
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $212,000 - $265,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/headway/jobs/5718218004?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

We are hiring a Director of Technical Recruiting to lead and scale R&D hiring across Engineering, Data, Product, Design, Security, and IT. As the most senior leader overseeing technical recruiting, you will set the strategy, design the operating model, and deliver on a mission-critical hiring engine that fuels Headway’s growth.

In this role, you’ll blend people leadership, operational excellence, and strategic influence to build an Olympic-level recruiting team. You will:

- Partner with leaders across technical teams to scale their departments, advising on search strategies and providing tailored, scalable solutions

- Leverage metrics to diagnose gaps and proactively provide solutions, keeping a strong pulse on tech hiring trends and the impact it has on your funnels

- Manage a team of senior recruiters and managers with a focus on performance and career growth, embracing Headway’s F.U.E.L. culture (Feedback Uplifts Every Level)

- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior executives, building strong relationships

- Deliver exceptional hiring outcomes by focusing teams on the highest-impact priorities, removing obstacles early, and aligning with cross-functional teams

- Drive operational excellence by setting the standards and rhythms that enable a high-performing, high-velocity recruiting team

- Shape long-range R&D talent strategy and partner with executives on headcount planning and capacity modeling

- Influence the systems and tooling that underpin all tech hiring that will allow the TA team to work efficiently and effectively

- Strengthen Headway’s tech talent brand by ensuring an exceptional, consistent candidate experience across every touchpoint

You’d be a great fit if…

- Bring 7+ years of recruiting leadership experience, including managing managers and senior recruiters in high-growth, tech-enabled environments

- Have a track record of scaling technical organizations, building diverse and inclusive teams, and maintaining a high talent bar

- Operate as a business partner to senior leaders, grounding strategies and recommendations in data and market insights

- Operate as a first-principles thinker, grounding your decisions in data, disentangling root issues in the funnel, and crafting scalable TA solutions that accelerate hiring

- Navigate ambiguity with structure and speed

- Communicate with clarity and executive presence, tailoring your message to different audiences and influencing decisions through structured, compelling storytelling

- Demonstrate a bias for operational excellence, continually improving how the team works and removing friction for candidates, recruiters, and stakeholders

The expected base pay range for this position is $212,000 - $265,000, based on a variety of factors including qualifications, experience, and geographic location.

## Skills

### Required
- recruiting leadership
- technical recruiting
- people leadership
- operational excellence
- strategic influence
- data analysis
- metrics
- tech hiring trends
- candidate experience

### Nice to have
- first-principles thinking
- business partnership
- communication
- executive presence
- storytelling
- operational improvement

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