Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Senior Technical Recruiter roles matter in SaaS because hiring capacity often becomes a limiting factor as product lines expand and technical roadmaps harden. This listing stands out for its focus on recruiting across engineering, security, IT, and ML engineering—functions that directly underpin reliability, trust, and differentiated capability in modern SaaS businesses. The on-site San Francisco/Seattle setup also signals close proximity to technical leadership and rapid feedback loops with hiring teams.
From a SaaS career standpoint, the role builds durable leverage: translating business priorities into hiring plans, managing funnel health with data, and shaping candidate experience end-to-end. Work that spans niche technical markets and senior stakeholders is transferable across SaaS categories, because the same fundamentals recur—capacity planning, role calibration, and aligning interview processes with the skills needed to ship and operate software at scale.
This is best suited to an experienced recruiter who prefers consultative partnership over transactional requisition handling. It fits someone comfortable influencing executives, running structured sourcing motions, and operating with incomplete information while still producing clear recommendations. The hybrid, office-based model will appeal to professionals who value in-person collaboration with engineering and leadership teams.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About the Team
At OpenAI, we are dedicated to building safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) to benefit all of humanity. Our mission attracts the world’s top talent in science, engineering, and business to address one of the most ambitious challenges of our times. The Recruiting team is at the heart of this mission, tasked with identifying and hiring exceptional individuals who align with OpenAI's values and cultural ambitions. Our approach to recruitment aims to set the standard for excellence and innovation in the field, connecting outstanding candidates with opportunities to impact the future of AI.
About the Role
Our team is growing to help OpenAI build the next phase of highly capable intelligent computer systems. We’re looking for a highly experienced Recruiter who advises hiring managers and partners closely with senior leaders across the organization. You're driven to work on high-value talent initiatives and are close to the industry’s most sought-after talent. You’ll work with our existing team members—including technical recruiters, coordinators, sourcers, and cross-functional partners—to drive key hires across engineering, AI, and technical domains.
Your Responsibilities:
Independently manage stakeholder expectations for top-of-funnel initiatives across Engineering, Security, IT, and ML engineering
Partner with executives and hiring managers to deeply understand current and future hiring needs
Design and execute strategic sourcing plans to map talent and drive top-of-funnel activity
Own the candidate experience from first engagement through loop interview stage, delivering exceptional service and fast turnaround
Act as a thought partner to hiring teams, offering talent market insights, funnel data, and best practices
Source technical talent through creative outreach, events, and passive campaigns
Build and maintain nurturing campaigns and brand-forward recruitment marketing efforts
We’re seeking:
8+ years of progressive recruiting experience in high-growth, premier tech environments.
Proven success hiring in niche and competitive technical talent markets.
Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build trust with senior stakeholders.
Clear, compelling written and verbal communication skills.
Comfort navigating ambiguity and shifting priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Workplace & Location
This role is based in either our San Francisco or Seattle office. We are not considering remote applications for this role. We offer relocation support to new employees, and we use a hybrid work model: three days in the office per week with optional work from home on Thursdays and Fridays.
Our open-plan offices have height-adjustable desks, conference rooms, phone booths, well-stocked kitchens full of snacks and drinks, spaces for socializing, and more.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
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