About this role
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Lead and develop a world-class technical recruiting organization, fostering a high-performance, quality-driven, candidate-centric culture.
- Partner with executive leadership, hiring managers, People Operations, and Finance to develop hiring strategies aligned with the business priorities of WHOOP and long-term growth plans.
- Own technical recruiting performance, including capacity planning, role assignment, funnel health, quality of hire, time-to-fill, offer acceptance, and candidate experience metrics, using data to continuously improve outcomes.
- Build scalable recruiting processes, interview frameworks, and talent programs that enable consistent, high-quality hiring across Engineering, Product, Data Science, AI/ML, Hardware, and other technical functions.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to technical leaders, providing market intelligence, compensation insights, interview process guidance, and recommendations on hiring strategy.
- Champion proactive talent engagement through employer branding, talent mapping, networking, and pipeline development for critical and emerging technical skill sets.
- Partner cross-functionally to ensure recruiting practices support a high-performing hiring process while maintaining an extremely high hiring bar.
- In tandem with Talent Operations, continuously evaluate and support implementing recruiting technologies, AI-enabled sourcing tools, and operational improvements that increase recruiter productivity and hiring effectiveness.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- 10+ years of recruiting experience with significant leadership experience managing technical recruiting teams in high-growth technology organizations.
- Proven track record of building, scaling, and leading recruiting organizations that consistently deliver exceptional technical talent.
- Deep understanding of recruiting for a wide variety of technical disciplines that include software engineering, machine learning, data science, hardware, embedded systems, product, manufacturing, and other highly technical disciplines.
- Experience partnering with executive leadership on workforce planning, organizational scaling, and executive-level hiring.
- Strong analytical mindset with experience leveraging recruiting metrics, market data, and forecasting to drive strategic decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders, navigate ambiguity, and balance competing business priorities in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment.
- Experience implementing and optimizing recruiting technologies, applicant tracking systems, sourcing platforms, and AI-enabled recruiting workflows.
- Excellent leadership, coaching, communication, and relationship-building skills with a passion for developing high-performing teams.
- Comfortable wearing multiple hats and operating with a "no task too small" mindset, recognizing that building a great organization requires both strategic thinking and hands-on execution.
- Strong commitment to embracing and leveraging AI tools in day-to-day tasks, ensuring AI-assisted work aligns with the same high-quality standards as personal contributions.