Senior Recruiter, Parallel

• The right person is comfortable using modern recruiting tools, automation, and AI where appropriate to increase speed, consistency, candidate quality, and hiring manager visibility
• 5+ years of recruiting experience, with meaningful ownership of full-cycle recruiting
• Strong outbound sourcing experience, including target company mapping, LinkedIn Recruiter, candidate research, outreach campaigns, and passive candidate engagement
• Experience recruiting technical talent in a hard-tech or complex environment
• Experience working as an internal recruiter while partnering directly with hiring managers to define roles, calibrate talent, and manage searches
• Experience using modern recruiting tools (such as Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, Noon.ai or similar platforms)
• Comfortable operating in a startup environment with changing priorities, lean resources, and high expectations
• High ownership mindset with the ability to drive work forward independently

Desirable

• Parallel Systems is building autonomous, battery-electric rail vehicles to modernize freight transportation. We are hiring a Senior Recruiter to help us build the team that will bring this technology into the real world
• This role will sit on the Talent team and report to the Head of Talent. You will own full-cycle recruiting across technical and business-critical roles, with a heavy focus on sourcing exceptional candidates for engineering, hardware, software, manufacturing, operations, and go-to-market hiring
• This is a hands-on recruiting role. We are looking for someone who can build pipeline from scratch, engage passive talent, partner tightly with hiring managers, and help improve how recruiting operates at Parallel
• Own full-cycle recruiting for assigned roles, from intake through offer close
• Drive outbound sourcing for priority searches, including target company mapping, candidate research, outreach, follow-ups, and pipeline conversion
• Build high-quality candidate pipelines through sourcing, referrals, events, networks, and targeted outreach campaigns
• Partner with hiring managers to define role requirements, calibrate on talent bar, build search strategies, and keep searches moving with urgency
• Create thoughtful candidate outreach that clearly communicates Parallel’s mission, technology, and opportunity
• Screen candidates for role fit, motivation, technical alignment, compensation expectations, and likelihood to close
• Run structured recruiting processes, including interview planning, feedback collection, debriefs, and offer support
• Use Greenhouse, Noon.ai, LinkedIn Recruiter, and other recruiting tools to manage pipeline, improve workflows, and increase recruiting visibility
• Identify opportunities to automate or streamline repetitive recruiting tasks while maintaining a high-quality candidate experience
• Help improve recruiting practices across sourcing, scorecards, hiring manager alignment, reporting, candidate communication, and interview process
• Represent Parallel in the market with credibility, professionalism, and strong judgment
• What Success Looks Like:
• In 30 Days: You are independently owning hiring manager relationships for assigned searches, including intake, calibration, pipeline updates, sourcing strategy, and next steps
• In 60 Days: You have filled at least one role or moved a priority search to final-stage candidates, while showing measurable sourcing output across outbound activity, response rates, qualified screens, and onsite conversions
• In 90 Days: You have filled 1-2 critical roles while also providing at least 1 automation to the recruiting process