Technical Recruiter
Overview
Placement Type:
Temporary
Salary:
$52.21-64.36 Hourly
Start Date:
10.27.2025
Aquent is partnering with a leading global company at the forefront of innovation, dedicated to shaping the future through impactful technology and sustainable solutions. This organization thrives on a culture of collaboration, pushing boundaries, and making a tangible difference in the world. As a key contributor to their talent ecosystem, you will play a pivotal role in building and executing an equitable, inclusive, and accessible hiring system that directly fuels their growth and mission. Your expertise will not only attract top-tier talent but also enhance the candidate experience, drive strategic hiring outcomes, and directly contribute to the success of groundbreaking initiatives.
**About the Role**
Step into a dynamic role where you will be instrumental in identifying, engaging, and securing the talent that drives innovation. You’ll navigate a highly competitive market, leveraging your strategic insights to build diverse teams and ensure the organization continues to attract the best minds. This position offers a unique opportunity to shape the future workforce, optimize talent acquisition processes, and champion a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion across all hiring stages. You will be a trusted partner to hiring managers, influencing strategy and making a significant impact on the organization’s ability to achieve its ambitious goals.
**Key Responsibilities**
* Lead the full-cycle recruitment process, from strategic sourcing and screening to offer negotiation and successful candidate closure.
* Collaborate closely with hiring managers to define role requirements, develop effective search strategies, and optimize interview processes.
* Craft and deliver inclusive and efficient candidate experiences that embody organizational values and mission.
* Drive alignment and facilitate decision-making among hiring teams throughout the recruitment lifecycle.
* Maintain meticulous pipelines and workflows within the applicant tracking system.
* Negotiate and close offers, ensuring alignment with compensation philosophy and role leveling.
* Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives across all stages of recruiting.
* Manage headcount for client groups, supporting accurate tracking, influencing allocation, and assisting with requisition prioritization and reconciliation.
* Support the preparation and submission of candidate packets for review, ensuring accuracy, comprehensive feedback, and fair representation.
* Facilitate internal mobility processes, supporting transferees and hiring managers for effective transitions.
* Identify, investigate, pilot, and implement process improvements to enhance staffing efficiency and team productivity.
* Cultivate strong client relationships, providing consultative guidance on long-term hiring initiatives and managing expectations.
* Interpret and analyze staffing data and hiring trends to present actionable recommendations that drive strategic decision-making and efficiency.
* Engage candidates to gather insights on skills, motivations, and concerns, building trust and advocating for an excellent candidate experience.
* Partner with internal teams on offer negotiation and compensation analysis to ensure competitive and equitable offers.
* Collaborate with key business, staffing, and hiring stakeholders to develop solutions for diversity, equity, and inclusion objectives.
* Support candidate assessment and team alignment, screening candidates for interviews and managing the interview process.
* Manage relationships with key internal partners and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to address staffing challenges.
* Develop and execute targeted recruiting initiatives, influencing hiring managers on their hiring strategy to meet established goals.
**Must-Have Qualifications**
* 5 years of experience building teams as an in-house recruiter, ideally in a start-up or high-growth technology environment.
* 2 years of experience utilizing an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) for recruiting.
* Proven experience hiring for both technical and non-technical positions.
* Strong communication skills and a demonstrated ability to influence hiring decisions.
* Experience working directly with hiring managers and cross-functional partners.
* A track record of successfully closing candidates and managing offer negotiations.
* Comfortable and effective working in fast-paced and ambiguous environments.
* Deep commitment to advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in hiring practices.
* Proficiency in data analysis and synthesis to inform recruiting strategies.
* Expertise in candidate pipeline management.
* Strong product knowledge relevant to the roles being hired for.
* Excellent client/partner management skills.
* Solid understanding of employment laws.
* Familiarity with various staffing systems and tools.
* Strong networking abilities.
* Comprehensive recruiting knowledge.
* Client and domain knowledge.
* Exceptional interviewing skills.
* Relevant industry knowledge.
* Proficiency in staffing systems thinking.
* Experience with resource planning and headcount management.
* In-depth understanding of the hiring process.
**Nice-to-Have Qualifications**
* Experience hiring in the climate technology or energy sectors.
* Familiarity with grid systems, power markets, or renewable energy sectors.
* Experience hiring Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) engineers.
* Prior support of early-stage projects or incubator environments.
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**About Aquent Talent:**
Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world’s biggest brands.
Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. More information on our awesome benefits!
Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We’re about creating an inclusive environment—one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.
Client Description
As a Recruiter, you support outcomes for a talent ecosystem as a key contributor in order to meet hiring demand, making sure to build and execute against an equitable, inclusive, and accessible hiring system. You leverage your working knowledge of our talent recruiting processes to solve moderately complex staffing problems, collaborating on significant and/or unique problems, identifying and recommending creative ways to improve on solutions. You support hiring strategy and candidate management, working across-teams in a particular area of the company. You perform staffing analyses and talent assessments, partnering with businesses and sourcing to best determine how to meet them.
Responsibilities include:
– Recruit talent in a highly competitive talent market to achieve strategic hiring goals
– Manage the full-cycle hiring process from sourcing and screening to offer and close
Collaborate with hiring managers to define role requirements, search strategies, and interview processes
– Create inclusive and efficient candidate experiences that reflect our values and mission
– Drive alignment across hiring teams and support decision-making throughout the process
– Maintain accurate pipelines and workflows in Greenhouse
– Negotiate and close offers, ensuring alignment with compensation philosophy and role level
– Champion diversity, equity and inclusion across all stages of recruiting
– Manage headcount for cross-team client groups to support accurate tracking and influence headcount allocation, ensure accurate mapping of job postings to open headcount, identify trends/insights to influence hiring strategy and priorities, assist clients with prioritization of requisitions, reconciliation of headcount, and optimum distribution with minimal guidance.
– Support preparation of cross-team candidate packets within set timeline, verify accuracy of packets, ensure interview feedback is comprehensive and ties back to the minimum and preferred qualifications of the job, ensure candidate is fairly and objectively represented, and submit the same to Hiring Committee after leader approval with minimal guidance.
– Facilitate internal mobility process for transfers into client organization, work with internal transferees and hiring managers to support effective transfer process with minimal guidance.
– Identify, investigate, pilot, and implement process improvements on staffing by addressing multiple defined root causes, provide input and suggestions for improving the overall team’s productivity.
– Support cross-team client satisfaction in recruiting relationships, support long-term planning for hiring initiatives in a consultative manner, gain buy-in and manage expectations of clients on recruiting process, educate clients on our hiring philosophy to build candidate pipeline, engage with hiring managers to provide status updates on open roles and candidate pipeline with minimal guidance.
– Interpret and analyze staffing data (e.g., pass-through rate, candidate experience) and hiring trends to prepare and present information, ideas, and actionable recommendations on staffing processes and strategies that facilitate decision-making and address defined problems and drive efficiency, evaluating and selecting from multiple approaches, supporting projects that address staffing needs for leaders and assigned remit.
– Use our recruiting process and tools, gather role requirements or recommendations to identify talent or develop active and passive pipeline Engage candidates based on business needs and candidate situations/expertise and gather insights on candidates’ skills, motivations, and concerns through interactions and engagement; build candidate trust to uncover and anticipate issues; advocate for the candidate to create an excellent experience and maintain a positive reputation for us staffing; with minimal guidance.
– Support partnerships with peers on negotiating offers directly with candidates (partnering with senior management, Compensation Operations, and other groups as needed), evaluate offer data to identify patterns across-teams and address issues in partnership with others (e.g., Compensation) as needed, share best practices on candidate processes with minimal guidance.
– Partner with key business, staffing and hiring stakeholders to build solutions to multiple defined DEI objectives.
– Support candidate assessment for potential roles and identify team alignment based on understanding of the organization/function and role profiles and evaluate candidate skills and client needs, screening them for interviews and managing the interview process with minimal guidance.
– Support and manage the relationship with key partners (e.g., Staffing Services Team, Compensation), collaborate with cross-team stakeholders across People Operations to address staffing challenges with minimal guidance.
– Develop and execute cross-team targeted recruiting initiatives to meet established goals and objectives, influence hiring managers on their hiring strategy.
Minimum role qualification requires proficiency in:
– 5 years of experience building teams as an in-house recruiter, ideally in a start-up setting or high-growth tech companies
– 2 years experience using Greenhouse as an ATS system for recruiting
– Experience hiring for both technical and non-technical positions
– Strong communication skills and ability to influence hiring decisions
– Experience working directly with hiring managers and cross functional partners
– Proven ability to close candidates and manage offer negotiations
– Comfortable working in fast-paced and ambiguous environments
– Deep commitment to advancing DEI in hiring
– Data analysis & synthesis
– Candidate pipeline management
– Our product knowledge
– Client/partner management
– Employment laws
– Staffing systems and tools
– Networking
– Recruiting knowledge
– Client and domain knowledge
– Interviewing
– Industry knowledge
– Staffing systems thinking
– Resource planning and headcount management
– Our hiring process
Preferred Qualifications
Experience hiring in the climate tech or energy space
Familiarity with grid systems, power markets or renewable energy sectors
Experience hiring ML and AI engineers
Prior support of early-stage projects or incubator environments