Principal Technical Recruiter, Amplitude
$200-275k
OTE
Salary is inclusive of bonus or commission. Offers Equity
3 days a week in office
Product analytics company
Be an early applicant
Product analytics company
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-275k
OTE
Salary is inclusive of bonus or commission. Offers Equity
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To be the epicenter of digital business.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 15+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, with a significant portion of that time spent in a fast-paced, high-growth technology company
- Engineering Focus: A proven track record of successfully closing high-demand, senior-level Engineering talent
- Strategic Mindset: Ability to operate as a talent advisor who understands the "why" behind a hire, not just the "who."
- FDE Familiarity: Experience hiring Forward Deployed Engineers is highly preferred
- Tech Stack Fluency:
- ATS: Expert-level proficiency with Greenhouse and Ashby
- AI Fluency: You use Claude, Gemini, or other AI tools as part of your day-to-day to accelerate your work and drive efficiency
- Communication: Exceptional negotiation and executive presence skills, with the ability to influence senior leadership and manage intricate offer structures
- Ownership: A demonstrated ability to drive hiring for critical roles independently with minimal supervision
What the job involves
- This is a heavy engineering recruiting role. While your primary focus will be scaling our world-class engineering organization, you will also be called upon to leverage your expertise to support Product and Design hiring as needed
- You will manage full-cycle recruiting for complex, high-impact roles, including:
- Engineering: Principal Engineers, Engineering Managers, Data Engineering Leaders, and specialized roles in ML/AI
- Product & Design: Senior/Group Product Managers, Director-level roles, and Senior Product Designers
- Strategic & Operational Advisory: Act as a high-level consultant to executive hiring managers, providing data-driven insights on market trends, compensation landscape, and organizational design
- Source and Strategize: Design and execute advanced, creative sourcing strategies to build diverse pipelines of highly sought-after, passive senior candidates
- Full-Cycle Management: Lead the entire recruitment process from the initial executive intake meeting through to complex offer negotiations and closing
- AI-Driven Efficiency: Integrate AI tools (Claude, Gemini, etc.) into your daily workflow to accelerate sourcing, communication, and process management
- Candidate Experience: Ensure an exceptional, polished experience at every stage, serving as a sophisticated ambassador for Amplitude's culture
Our take
Amplitude provides product analytics to help companies understand user behaviour. Product, marketing, and growth teams use Amplitude to discover and share insights about user engagement, retention, and revenue.
Amplitude’s user flows reveal which actions are the most commonly taken after users sign up, and which usually precede purchases made in-app, creating paths through the app. The behaviour of individual app users can be viewed with unlimited real-time activity feeds and user timelines.
Thousands of companies use Amplitude analytics, including Microsoft, Under Armour, Intuit, Twitter, Bonobos, Peloton, and many more. In 2024, a securities fraud case was filed against Amplitude due to an IPO and stock share rise that was alleged to be artificially inflated before their downturn in 2022. The case has since been resolved, and Amplitude continues to release new products and operate at full capacity.
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Insights
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jun 2021
$150m
LATE VC
May 2020
$50m
SERIES E
Total funding: $336.2m
Company benefits
- We offer a generous 12-week parental leave for fathers/partners and 18-20 weeks for new birthing parents. This leave policy also provides flexible scheduling so you can spend time with your family and bond with your little one. Specific leave policy will vary by country
- We believe it’s important to unplug from work to reset and recharge. We offer flexible vacation time and unlimited PTO — and we encourage you to use it!
- We provide a monthly stipend for the wellness activity of your choosing, from gym memberships and fitness classes to acupuncture and massages
- Equity is an important component of compensation, but it should benefit you (not just the company). In addition to offering competitive RSU grants that vest quarterly over three years, our Employee Stock Purchase Plan gives employees the option to buy below market price
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Spenser Skates
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked as an Algorithmic Trader, Researcher at DRW Trading Group. They co-found Sonalight but are no longer working at the company.
Curtis Liu
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously worked as a Teaching Assistant at MIT and as a Software Engineer at Google. They co-found Sonalight but are no longer working at the company.
Jeffrey Wang
(Co-Founder & Chief Architect)They studied computer science at university. They have extensive experience in software engineering prior to co-founding Amplitude.
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