Acryl Data provides clarity to data by enabling delightful search and discovery, data observability, and federated governance across organizations' entire data ecosystem. With its modern data catalog, the company has earned the trust of data professionals from startups and Fortune 500 companies globally. Acryl Data was founded by experts who previously created LinkedIn DataHub and Airbnb Dataportal and is backed by top-tier venture capital firms, including 8VC, LinkedIn.
Position Overview
As Senior Engineering Recruiter, you'll own and architect our entire technical recruiting function from the ground up. We're looking for a self-starter who can immediately establish and execute our hiring strategy while building scalable processes that will support our rapid growth. You'll own the full-cycle recruitment process for engineering roles across all levels, partnering closely with hiring managers and leadership to develop and execute hiring strategies that align with our growth objectives.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, with a proven track record of successful engineering hires
- Demonstrated experience scaling engineering teams at early-stage startups
- Deep understanding of current engineering hiring trends, compensation frameworks, and talent markets
- Extensive experience recruiting across the engineering spectrum, from frontend to infrastructure roles
- Strong track record of building and implementing scalable recruiting practices and processes
- Experience working collaboratively with recruiting coordinators to optimize the hiring pipeline
- Exceptional attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities with precision
- Outstanding communication and relationship-building skills, with a talent for engaging passive candidates
Key Responsibilities
- Build and own the entire recruiting infrastructure from scratch, including processes, best practices, and metrics tracking systems
- Establish comprehensive recruiting analytics and reporting frameworks to measure success and drive continuous improvement
- Partner with engineering leadership to understand hiring needs and develop targeted recruitment strategies
- Build and maintain relationships with top engineering talent through proactive sourcing and networking
- Design and implement scalable recruiting processes that can grow with the organization
- Manage complex hiring pipelines while maintaining exceptional candidate experience
- Provide data-driven insights to optimize recruitment strategies and improve hiring outcomes
- Mentor and collaborate with recruiting coordinators to ensure smooth interview processes
- Stay current with industry trends and best practices in engineering recruitment
Impact You'll Have
- Define and implement the foundation of our technical recruiting function
- Shape the future of our engineering organization through strategic hiring
- Build and scale processes that will form the foundation of our talent acquisition strategy
- Create lasting relationships within the engineering community
- Drive improvements in key recruiting metrics while maintaining high hiring standards
We're seeking a candidate who can hit the ground running and take immediate ownership of building our recruiting function from the ground up. You'll be empowered to establish best practices, implement tracking systems, and create scalable processes that will support our growth trajectory.
If you're passionate about building great engineering teams and have a track record of scaling startups through strategic hiring, we'd love to hear from you.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Equity
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance (99% coverage for employee, 65% coverage for dependents)
- Carrot Fertility Program
- Remote friendly
- Work from home and monthly co-working space budget
What We Do
Founded by the leaders that built data teams at LinkedIn and Airbnb, Acryl Data enables you to take back control of your fragmented data stack. We do this by driving the #1 open source Metadata Platform DataHub, which has a community of 8,000+ data practitioners and is deployed in 1,000+ companies.
Acryl DataHub is a third-generation streaming metadata platform that integrates with 50+ tools (dbt, Kafka, Snowflake, Airflow, Looker, etc) in the data stack to enable data discovery, data lineage, data governance, and data observability.
✅ Connect to your data sources within minutes, and gain end-to-end visibility.
✅ Power mission-critical workflows with a SOC-2-compliant platform.
✅ Bring data and business teams together with a single source of truth to create governed data products.
Powering data teams at Notion, Zendesk, Riskified, and many more!