Allocate

Founding Technical Recruiter

Who can apply: Only open to applicants in: New York.
Location as listed by the employer: “Palo Alto Office (Hybrid); New York (Hybrid)”
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About this role

Allocate is hiring for a Founding Technical Recruiter role (full-time). See the official posting for full details.

Requirements

  • 10+ years in talent acquisition, with direct experience owning recruiting across EPD functions (Engineering, Product, Data/Research, Design)
  • A track record designing and deploying structured interviewing practices — not just running them, but building the frameworks (behavioral question banks, scorecards, interviewer training) from scratch.
  • A proven, hands-on track record in outbound sourcing for hard-to-reach and hard-to-identify candidates — deep comfort with advanced Boolean search, creative sourcing channels, and market mapping to surface talent that i…
  • Experience evaluating and deploying AI-powered sourcing and recruiting tools (and a desire to keep experimenting) to extend what a lean talent function can do
  • Experience managing or coordinating external recruiting partners/agencies alongside internal pipelines.
  • A track record building talent/employer branding and talent communities — proactive candidate pipelines and employer positioning that generate inbound interest and shorten future searches.
  • Experience building consistent, scalable talent operations — the workflows, reporting, and process infrastructure that keep a recruiting function scalable and consistent.
  • Comfort operating as a function of one in an early-stage environment — equally able to run a search personally and to design the systems that outlast any single search.

Summarized from the employer's posting — check the full posting for every requirement.