Senior Technical Recruiter, Handshake
$160-180k
College career network and job board
Posted today
College career network and job board
501-1000 employees
Posted today
$160-180k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To democratize access to opportunity and ensure any student can build a great career no matter who they know, where they live or what school they attend.
Role
Who you are
- Full-Cycle Technical Recruiting: 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with a track record of hiring for high-impact Engineering and Data roles in early to growth-stage technology companies
- Deep Technical Acumen: Comfortable understanding technical stacks and matching talent to domain needs (e.g., backend infra, LLM systems, MLOps, data infrastructure, full stack development)
- Executive Collaboration: Adept at building trusted relationships with engineering leaders and technical stakeholders; able to advise on hiring decisions, priorities, and tradeoffs
- Advanced Sourcing Skills: Proficient in sourcing via LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean, GitHub, Stack Overflow, Noon.ai, and technical communities. Creative and persistent in outreach
- ATS & Workflow Fluency: Skilled in using ATS systems (e.g., Ashby), structured interview processes, and tools like Gem, Brighthire, and scheduling automation to streamline operations
- Analytical Mindset: Able to generate reports, track funnel data, and evaluate performance against key hiring metrics. Experience with recruiting dashboards a plus
- Clear Communicator: Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to engage engineering candidates thoughtfully and convey Handshake’s technical vision
What the job involves
- We’re hiring a Senior Technical Recruiter to lead hiring for Engineering and Data roles across Handshake AI. Reporting to the Sr. Director of Talent Acquisition, you'll work closely with engineering leadership and cross-functional partners to scale a world-class technical team
- This is a high-impact role with ownership over technical recruiting strategy, pipeline development, and end-to-end execution—focused on hiring the builders powering the future of human data
- Strategic Hiring Partner: Collaborate with engineering and data leaders to shape org design, define role requirements, and prioritize hiring plans aligned to technical roadmap goals
- Technical Pipeline Ownership: Manage full-cycle recruiting for software engineering, infrastructure, machine learning, data science, and data engineering roles—from outbound sourcing through close
- Proactive Sourcing & Market Mapping: Build diverse, high-caliber technical pipelines using outbound sourcing, referrals, events, and strategic research. Identify niche talent in AI, infrastructure, distributed systems, data platforms, and beyond
- Candidate Assessment Strategy: Drive clarity around evaluation rubrics, technical screen processes, and hiring bar calibration across interview teams. Partner with engineering leaders to ensure consistency and rigor
- Data-Driven Recruiting: Own and report on funnel metrics including conversion rates, pipeline velocity, passthrough health, and candidate experience feedback. Use data to recommend improvements
- Employer Brand for Technical Talent: Create compelling outreach and candidate-facing content tailored to technical audiences. Represent Handshake at AI and engineering events, meetups, and conferences
- Exceptional Candidate Experience: Ensure every candidate—regardless of outcome—has a respectful, transparent, and engaging experience reflective of our engineering culture
Our take
The three founders of Handshake established their company in an attempt to eliminate inequality and make the student hiring landscape fairer. The Handshake platform acts as a LinkedIn for college students, pairing students from every walk of life with more than 650K employers, including the entire Fortune 500, which includes Google and Nike.
The graduate recruitment platform is open to any student with a valid @.edu email address, with more than 12 million active users from thousands of colleges and universities. With a student-first philosophy, the company generates revenue from both universities and employers rather than students.
Valued at $3.5B, Handshake has gained traction in a competitive market, although it has strong competition from recruiting giants LinkedIn and Indeed. It stands out, however, by helping students build new relationships and skills, rather than simply making connections to people they already know.
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Insights
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2022
$200m
SERIES F
May 2021
$80m
SERIES E
Total funding: $434m
Company benefits
- đź’°Equity and ownership in a fast-growing company
- 🍼16 Weeks of paid parental leave for birth giving parents & 10 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birth giving parents
- đź’ťComprehensive medical, dental, and vision policies including LGTBQ+ Coverage. We also provide resources for Mental Health Assistance, Employee Assistance Programs and counseling support
- đź’»Handshake offers $500/ÂŁ360 home office stipend for you to spend during your first 3 months to create a productive and comfortable workspace at home
- đź“šGenerous learning & development opportunities and an annual $2,000/ÂŁ1,500 stipend for you to grow your skills and career
- 🏦401k Match: Handshake offers a dollar-for-dollar match on 1% of deferred salary, up to a maximum of $1,200 per year
- 🏝 All full-time US-based Handshakers are eligible for our flexible time off policy to get out and see the world. In addition, we offer 8 standardized holidays, and 2 additional days of flexible holiday time off. Lastly, we have a Summer and Winter #ShakeBreak, two one-week periods of Collective Time Off
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Garrett Lord
(Co-Founder & CEO)Majored in Computer Science at Michigan Technological University. Interned at Palantir Technologies before co-founding Handshake in 2012.
Ben Christensen
(Co-Founder)Graduated from Michigan Technological University with a degree in Computer Networking & Systems Administration. Interned at Target and worked as a Developer at Up and Running Software. Was part of Arbor Networks' ASERT Security Research team.
Scott Ringwelski
(Co-Founder)Attained a degree in Computer Software Engineering from Michigan Technological University. Co-founded Handshake in 2012.
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