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