Senior Recruiter, Cockroach Labs
R&D + G&A
$116-154k
+ Stock Options
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
Distributed SQL for always-on customer experiences
Job no longer available
Distributed SQL for always-on customer experiences
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$116-154k
+ Stock Options
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To simplify how businesses build and operate world-changing applications.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience within high-growth technology or enterprise SaaS companies
- Proven success recruiting across Engineering, Product, and G&A (Finance, Legal, People) roles
- Deep knowledge of diverse talent landscapes across Engineering, Product, and G&A, with a strong track record of closing niche-senior searches. Brings talent insights into compensation benchmarks, talent mobility, and hiring trends, helping to inform strategic decisions and offers to your stakeholders. Previous experience recruiting for Technical and G&A roles is needed
- Proven success recruiting across roles at all levels in Engineering, Product, and G&A
- Strong sourcing capabilities and fluency in modern recruiting tools (e.g., Gem, Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, etc.) Experience leveraging AI or automation tools to streamline the recruiting process is a plus
- Experience building and executing structured interview processes, competency-based evaluations, and scalable recruiting frameworks
- Deep understanding of market dynamics, compensation benchmarks, and the competitive talent landscape to make data driven decisions
- Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills with a consultative, data-informed approach
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Recruiter to join our Global Recruiting team and help scale our North America R&D (Engineering & Product) and Global G&A (Finance, Legal, People) organizations
- This is a high-impact role where you’ll lead full-cycle recruiting across some of the most critical functions at Cockroach Labs. You’ll act as a strategic talent partner, combining human intuition with data and technology to attract exceptional talent that fuels our growth
- You’ll collaborate closely with leaders across the business, using market insights, recruiting analytics, and a deep understanding of our culture to guide hiring decisions that align with our long-term goals
- Own the full-cycle recruiting process for roles across R&D and G&A: from intake to close, ensuring a world-class candidate and stakeholder experience
- Design creative sourcing strategies that blend AI-enabled tools, automation, and your recruiter instincts to uncover and engage diverse, high-caliber talent
- Act as a trusted talent advisor, providing market data, compensation insights, and strategic guidance to leaders (including VP+ and the Executive team)
- Partner cross-functionally with Recruiting Operations, HRBPs, FP&A, and Legal to ensure alignment and operational excellence across the hiring process
- Champion diversity and inclusion, embedding equitable hiring practices and proactive sourcing strategies that reflect our values and strengthen our culture
- Leverage data and insights, analyzing recruiting metrics like pipeline conversion rates, time-to-fill, and sourcing effectiveness, to identify trends and drive continuous improvement
- Experiment with AI and automation to enhance efficiency, improve candidate engagement, and streamline operational workflows
- Immerse yourself in our teams and culture, attending team meetings, offsites, and events to build authentic relationships and represent Cockroach Labs with credibility and heart
- In your first 30 days, we want you to learn about our product and teams inside and out. To attract top talent, you need to have a deep understanding of what makes our company special and exciting from both a people and a product standpoint
- We encourage you to become involved in formal conversations like team meetings and find informal meet-greet opportunities to get to know your client groups across R&D and G&A. Your job during this time is to be a sponge!
- By 60 days, you will have a strong grasp of our recruiting processes and tools. You will have shadowed recruiter screens and observed Kick-Offs, Hiring Committee Reviews after completing onsite interviews
- You will have worked alongside the team during their sourcing efforts to understand the tools and resources we use to engage candidates. Working with the R&D and G&A leaders, you'll understand our current and future headcount and identify key focus areas going forward
- After 90 days, you'll be fully integrated into the team. You will have taken over the process for some of our existing roles and lead your first-of-many hiring kick-offs for new roles
- You’ll focus on the efficiency of our recruiting process and identify areas for improvement for our interviews. You may have your first candidate(s) coming onsite for interviews and will be meeting regularly with key stakeholders within the R&D and G&A organizations to ensure recruiting needs are being addressed
- Reporting to Miguel Arenas - Sr. Manager, Recruiting (R&D, G&A)
Application process
- This position will remain posted until filled
Our take
Cockroach Labs was founded by a team of ex-Google employees who wanted to build a database management system similar to Google’s Spanner. The result is CockroachDB, an open-source, distributed SQL database that delivers familiar SQL, strong consistency, and near-indestructible fault tolerance. Designed to scale locally or globally and deployed on any cloud or on-prem setup, it keeps mission-critical applications running even through hardware failures or full data-center outages.
A major milestone in the company's growth is its partnership with IBM ,which integrates CockroachBD into IBM's hybrid infrastructure. This makes it far easier for long-standing mainframe users to modernize without rewriting massive amounts of code. Running CockroachDB on systems like LinuxONE, Linux on Z, Power Systems, and Red Hat OpenShift helps organizations adopt cloud-native architectures while staying in environments they trust. At the same time, enterprise demand is surging and the company is boasting significant year-on-year growth in new customers, ARR, and cloud adoption.
As applications become more global, always-on, and increasingly AI-driven, businesses need databases built for scale, resilience, and zero downtime. And CockroachDB was engienered for exaclt ythat. With a decade of innovation, expanding enterprise traction, and a leadership team experienced in scaling high-growth tech companies, Cockroach Labs is set to power the next generation of mission-critical applications.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Dec 2021
$278m
SERIES F
Jan 2021
$160m
SERIES E
Total funding: $633.2m
Company benefits
- Competitive Health Insurance Coverage
- Paid Parental Leave
- Flexible PTO
- Learning & Development
- Relocation Support
- Employee Referral Bonus
Company HQ
Chelsea, New York, NY
Leadership
Spencer Kimball
(Co-Founder & CEO)Worked at WeGo Systems as CTO for 3 years before joining Google as a Software Engineer for almost 10 years. Also, previous CTO of Viewfinder and Engineer at Square.
Peter Matiss
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously a Software Engineer at Square, Co-Founder at Viewfinder and a Software Engineer at Google.
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