Senior Technical Recruiter

Founded in 2009, SendGrid is an industry-disrupting, cloud-based customer communication platform that solves the challenges of reliably delivering emails on behalf of our customers. We deliver over 33 billion emails a month for customers like Airbnb, Spotify, and Uber.

SendGrid is looking for a Sr. Technical Recruiter to help execute an uber-aggressive yet selective multi-year hiring plan.

• Live by and champion our cultural values of Happy, Hungry, Honest, and Humble
• Build pipelines of top talent through research and sourcing
• Be an integrative, highly collaborative recruiting SME to guide and support our hiring managers and interview teams
• Partner effectively with recruiting team peers and cross-functional stakeholders
• Obsess about candidate experience; identify and engage qualified candidates, providing consistent communication throughout the process
• Qualify candidates for experience, skills, and cultural fit (culture is our code)
• Drive the full recruitment lifecycle for all the jobs in your purview
• Facilitate candidate debriefing sessions and contribute as an important and integral member of the interview team
• Support ad hoc projects as needed and be willing to do whatever it takes at a moment’s notice to capitalize on an opportunity
• Represent SendGrid with integrity and professionalism (and fun!) in the local tech and recruiting communities, including attending relevant user groups and meetups
• We're an agile, fast growing company and this job description isn't meant to be a complete list of your qualifications or all of the things you'll do

• Persuasive, Accountable, Self Motivated, Focused and Collaborative
• Ideally 6-9 years of experience with full lifecycle recruiting, including extensive sourcing of passive candidates
• Experience recruiting for a SaaS company, with a thorough understanding of software development technologies, roles and processes
• A strategic thinker that understands business objectives
• Highly detail-oriented with the ability to multi-task and manage multiple deadlines
• Specialized expertise recruiting for senior-level Software, Architecture, Quality, DevOps and Engineering Leadership roles
• May have a combination of corporate recruiting and staffing agency experience
• Recruiting breadth; experience in multiple geographies, recruiting all levels and skills
• Proven ability to work in an extremely high-volume, demanding, fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
• Experience using a multitude of recruiting and sourcing technologies
• Excellent negotiation, analytical and presentation skills
• Maybe you have a college degree, maybe you don’t - what matters to us is that you’re smart and get things done