Senior Technical Recruiter

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

This role will be based in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, New York, or remote.

At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. This role may be remote or hybrid. At LinkedIn, hybrid roles are performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team. Remote roles are performed from the designated home work location upon time of hire, and any changes to this home work location requires a review of remote status and approval. 

We are seeking a dynamic Senior Technical Recruiter to join our Engineering Recruiting team. In this role, you will play a critical part in identifying, screening, and hiring qualified candidates who align with LinkedIn’s mission and values. You will collaborate closely with hiring managers to understand their specific needs and tailor recruitment strategies accordingly. Your expertise in technical recruiting will help us build a diverse pipeline of best-in-class talent, ensuring that we remain at the forefront of innovation.

Responsibilities: 

Talent Acquisition Execution 

• Leads strategy and kickoff meetings with hiring managers by leveraging data and insights to influence and advise role requirements, business needs, and timelines for complex roles. 
• Designs and executes candidate experience strategies for critical/hard-to-fill roles and coaches hiring managers on engagement best practices driving employer brand impact and turning candidates into promoters. 
• Champions recruiting processes and ensures accuracy of data in systems to enable reliable reporting, compliance, and decision-making, addressing gaps and driving consistency. 
• Proactively plans risk and nurture strategy reviews and facilitates regular meetings to align on pipeline/hiring updates for complex roles. 
• Utilizes mastery of negotiation techniques using knowledge of candidate motivators to influence decision making. 
• Monitors and tracks progress against agreed upon core delivery metrics and goals to meet business hiring demand. 

Talent Strategy and Stakeholder Management 

• Influences and advises hiring managers and interview teams to build a skills-based and inclusive hiring process. 
• Proactively leverages market data and insights to attract top talent and inform talent strategies. 
• Identifies opportunities to improve processes and plays a key role in change efforts by embracing new practices, modeling best behaviors, guiding hiring managers, and sharing knowledge to influence others through transitions. 
• Evaluates and introduces artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to optimize team workflows, improves data-driven decision-making, and shares best practices to build team fluency. 
• Leads team participation in Customer Zero initiatives, synthesizes structured feedback, and partners with product teams to validate solutions and surface adoption challenges. 
• Actively seeks coaching and mentoring opportunities within and outside of immediate team, focusing on a growth mindset and a willingness to continuously upskill and provides informal guidance to junior individual contributor levels.

Basic Qualifications 

• Minimum 7 years of experience in talent acquisition, recruiting, human resources, sourcing, or related field OR Bachelor's Degree in related field AND minimum 4 years of experience in talent acquisition, recruiting, human resources, sourcing, or related field. 

Preferred Qualifications  

• 3+ years of experience using HR Systems. 
• 3+ years of experience in a client facing role. 
• 3+ years of experience in function-specific recruiting. 

Suggested Skills 

• Communication 
• Negotiation 
• Stakeholder Management 
• Strategic Thinking

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $116,000 to $189,000. 

Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor. 

The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits. 

Equal Opportunity Statement 

We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.

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• Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you
• Having interviews in an accessible location
• Being accompanied by a service dog
• Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview

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