Director, Technical Talent Acquisition
Director, Technical Talent Acquisition
Director, Technical Talent Acquisition
Klaviyo
Director, Technical Talent Acquisition at Klaviyo responsible for shaping and leading the technical recruiting strategy across Engineering, Product, and Data. You'll partner with senior technical leaders, build and scale a high-performing recruiting team, drive global hiring programs (with a focus on EMEA), and ensure an exceptional candidate experience while advancing equity and inclusion.
Qualification
- Proven experience leading technical recruitment at scale, ideally in a director-level role.
- Strong ability to partner with senior technical leaders (CTO, VPs of Engineering, Product, and Data) to translate business needs into hiring plans.
- Experience designing and optimizing recruiting processes, including sourcing, assessment, and candidate experience.
- Expertise in technical sourcing across platforms and communities (GitHub, LinkedIn Recruiter, and other technical networks) with the ability to tailor approaches for diverse talent pools.
- Demonstrated commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion in hiring, with data-driven measurement of impact.
- Experience implementing global hiring strategies and collaborating with regional partners (e.g., EMEA) to maintain consistency and adaptability.
- Excellent communication skills with a strong focus on transparency in candidate interactions and feedback loops.
- Leadership and people-management capabilities, including mentoring recruiters and scaling a recruiting team as the company grows.
Responsibility
- Lead and inspire a technical recruiting team by setting clear productivity metrics, goals, and efficiencies.
- Partner directly with senior technical executives (CTO, VPs of Engineering, Product, and Data) to understand hiring needs and build scalable talent strategies.
- Design and optimize technical recruiting processes from sourcing through assessment, ensuring world-class candidate experiences and effective engineering evaluations.
- Innovate in technical sourcing by developing creative strategies across platforms like GitHub, Covey, JuiceboxAI, LinkedIn Recruiter, and technical communities, while tailoring approaches to diverse technical talent pools.
- Champion equity, diversity, and inclusion in technical hiring by building programs that expand access and opportunity, and using data to track and measure impact.
- Implement progressive global hiring strategies, collaborating with EMEA TA partners to build a consistent yet adaptable technical recruiting approach.
- Elevate candidate experience by ensuring communication, feedback, and technical assessments are transparent, engaging, and rigorous.
- Scale the TA function by hiring, mentoring, and developing recruiters; establish performance metrics and optimize workflows for rapid growth.
