Senior Technical & Corporate Recruiter

Location: Palo Alto, CA
Employment Type: Full-Time
Industry: Artificial Intelligence | Enterprise Technology | High-Growth Startup

About the Opportunity

Talent Space is partnering with an innovative, venture-backed technology company that is rapidly scaling its organization across engineering, product, consulting, sales, operations, finance, and executive leadership.

We're looking for an experienced Corporate/Technical Recruiter who thrives in high-growth environments and enjoys building teams from the ground up. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact by helping shape the talent strategy of an exciting AI-driven organization while partnering directly with executive leadership.

If you enjoy solving challenging hiring problems, building recruiting processes, and identifying exceptional talent across multiple disciplines, we'd love to hear from you.

What You'll Do

As a trusted talent partner, you'll own the full recruiting lifecycle and manage searches across technical, business, operational, and executive-level positions.

Responsibilities include:

• Lead full-cycle recruiting from intake through offer negotiation and onboarding support
• Partner closely with hiring managers and executive leadership to understand hiring needs and define recruiting strategies
• Recruit across Engineering, Product, Design, AI, Sales, Consulting, Operations, Finance, Corporate Functions, and Leadership roles
• Develop creative sourcing strategies using LinkedIn Recruiter, referrals, networking, recruiting platforms, and direct outreach
• Build and maintain strong pipelines for current and future hiring needs
• Conduct candidate interviews to assess technical capabilities, experience, communication skills, and overall fit
• Coordinate interview scheduling while ensuring an exceptional candidate experience
• Provide market intelligence, compensation insights, and hiring recommendations to leadership
• Track recruiting metrics, pipeline health, and hiring progress using ATS and recruiting tools
• Help improve recruiting processes, documentation, interview practices, and overall hiring operations
• Support employer branding, referral initiatives, and talent community development
• Partner with external recruiting agencies when appropriate
• Assist with broader talent initiatives including onboarding, workforce planning, and compensation research as needed

What Client Looking For:

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience in startup, high-growth, or enterprise environments
• Proven success recruiting across both technical and corporate functions
• Strong experience sourcing passive candidates for difficult-to-fill positions
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies, business functions, and hiring markets
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent searches
• Experience working with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and LinkedIn Recruiter
• Comfortable working in fast-changing environments where priorities evolve quickly
• Strong sense of ownership with the ability to work independently

Preferred Experience

• Recruiting within Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Technology Consulting, or Professional Services
• Experience supporting executive-level searches
• Multi-region or international recruiting experience
• Knowledge of compensation benchmarking and offer development
• Experience helping scale recruiting processes within growing organizations

What Success Looks Like

In this role, you'll become a trusted advisor to hiring leaders by:

• Delivering exceptional candidates across diverse business functions
• Maintaining an efficient, high-quality recruiting process
• Providing a best-in-class candidate experience
• Solving challenging hiring needs through creativity and persistence
• Building scalable recruiting processes that support company growth
• Developing trusted relationships with executives, hiring managers, and candidates

Who You Are

You are resourceful, proactive, and energized by building organizations. You enjoy wearing multiple hats and don't wait for perfect processes before taking action. Whether you're recruiting a software engineer, product manager, sales executive, consultant, or finance leader, you're able to adapt quickly and confidently.

You understand that successful recruiting in high-growth companies requires urgency, ownership, creativity, strong business judgment, and an unwavering commitment to finding exceptional talent.

Why This Opportunity?

• Join a rapidly growing, innovative AI technology company
• Partner directly with executive leadership
• Recruit across a wide variety of impactful roles
• Help build recruiting strategy and scalable hiring processes
• High visibility and opportunity to influence organizational growth
• Collaborative, entrepreneurial culture where your ideas matter

About Talent Space

Talent Space is a boutique recruiting and staffing firm headquartered in Silicon Valley, connecting exceptional professionals with innovative companies across technology, AI, SaaS, cybersecurity, cloud, product, engineering, operations, finance, and executive leadership.

We believe recruiting is about building lasting relationships not simply filling positions. Our team partners closely with clients and candidates to create exceptional hiring experiences that lead to long-term success.

Talent Space is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and candidates.