Technical Lead Recruiter, Pallet
Founding Team
$165-220k
Offers equity
All-in-one transportation & warehouse management
Job no longer available
All-in-one transportation & warehouse management
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$165-220k
Offers equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build a new operating system for global logistics.
Role
Who you are
- 5–10+ years of recruiting experience, with 3+ years owning senior technical roles end-to-end
- Proven experience hiring: Senior Software Engineers, Platform / Infra / SRE Engineers, ML- or data-adjacent roles bonus if you’ve also hired: Product Managers, Designers etc
- Track record of closing senior engineers in competitive markets
- Experience operating in high-bar, founder-led or early-stage environments
- Strong technical recruiting judgment — able to spot misalignment early and maintain a low false-positive rate
- Calm, credible communicator who can sell Pallet to engineers without hype
- Comfortable with ambiguity, high ownership, and accountability for outcomes
- Low ego, collaborative, and motivated by impact rather than process for process’s sake
What the job involves
- Pallet is hiring our first Senior Technical Recruiter, a high-impact IC role with true ownership over how we build our engineering organization
- As we scale from ~50 to 100+ employees, engineering hiring is one of the most critical levers in the business. This role will own technical recruiting end-to-end — partnering closely with our Head of Talent, engineering leadership, and founders to hire across Product, Platform, FDE, and AI/ML roles
- This is not a support function. Recruiting at Pallet is a strategic partner to the business. You’ll be embedded with engineering leadership, deeply understand our product and technical roadmap, and play a direct role in shaping the team that builds our AI agents. The impact of this role will be immediate, visible, and long-lasting
- True 0→1 ownership at a company that takes hiring seriously. You’ll be the first dedicated Senior Technical Recruiter at Pallet, with real influence and partnership — recruiting is treated as a core business function, not a support role
- High-bar, white-glove technical hiring. Deep ownership, and strong trust with engineering leadership and senior candidates. This role is optimized for judgment and quality, not volume
- Hands-on ownership, not resource constrained. You’ll personally source and close top engineering talent, with budget for modern recruiting tools, selective agency support, and light shared sourcing resources available as needed
- Career-defining impact at a Series B AI company. You’ll help set the foundation for technical recruiting as Pallet scales, with meaningful equity upside, a strong engineering brand already in place, and the opportunity to shape what great looks like long-term
- Own and close senior, high-bar engineering roles across Product, Platform, FDE, and AI/ML in competitive SF / NYC markets
- Make your first hire within ~45 days and sustain ~2 high-quality engineering hires per month thereafter
- Run end-to-end searches: scoping ambiguous roles, sourcing, pipeline management, interview coordination, and closing
- Protect and scale Pallet’s technical hiring bar through high-signal screening, thoughtful debriefs, and pushback when quality is slipping
- Build trust with senior engineering candidates through a white-glove candidate experience and calm, credible selling
- Diagnose pipeline or close issues using data and candidate feedback, and adapt strategy in real time
- Act as a true partner to engineering leadership — bringing structure, judgment, and clarity without needing hand-holding
- Increase leverage across the technical recruiting system while remaining hands-on — personally sourcing for hard roles, partnering effectively with sourcers, and strengthening referral quality and conversion
- Our Recruiting Stack:
- Greenhouse for ATS
- Juicebox, Covey, LinkedIn Recruiter, LinkedIn InMails (400 a month), Clay
- Grammarly Pro, for polished writing
- Brighthire for call recordings and note-taking
- Calendly, Notion, GSuite, Slack, etc
Application process
- Chat with Head of Talent - 30 mins
- Short Take Home Assignment (paid $100) - 2-3 days to complete
- Final Interviews - ~ 3 hours of interviews at our office in SF
Our take
Bringing the power of AI to logistics, Pallet supplies an all-in-one platform that combines transportation and warehouse management. This union of TMS (transportation management system) and WMS (warehouse management system) software in one place makes for a valuable asset for organisations that are seeking to supercharge efficiency.
By collecting everything in one place, Pallet ensures that it stands out from less broad offerings - delivering order entry, dispatch, warehousing, billing, customer communication and more. Clients are able to put all their teams on one platform and automate many of their most time-consuming tasks with the help of AI.
With a long list of customers including teams at SpaceX, Google and Apple, it is clear that Pallet has made a space for itself in the market. The company raised substantial funding in 2025, in a round led by General Catalyst, which is being used to grow its team and operations in line with surging demand for its product.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2025
$27m
SERIES B
Oct 2024
$18m
SERIES A
Total funding: $48m
Company benefits
- 🩺 Health, Vision and Dental benefits
- 🏝️ Flexible PTO
- ➕ Life Insurance and Accidental Insurance
- ❤️🩹 Short-Term Disability Coverage
- 💸 Equity for all staff
- 🪜 401k option; helping you save for the future
- 📚 Yearly learning and development stipend
- 🚌 Commuter benefits if you live in SF
- 🚘 Fully covered uber ride home if you ever have to work late in the office
- 🏡 Remote office home stipend
- 🥤 Monthly happy hours; our last one was a Golden Gate Park BBQ
- 🍲 Company paid dinners on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the office
- 🎉 Annual Company Offsites; our last one was in Sonoma Wine Country 🍷
Company HQ
Nob Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sushanth Raman
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to founding the company, they were an Engineer at Retool and Product Manager at Google.
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