Principal Technical Recruiter

Location: San Francisco, CA; hybrid model with attendance at the San Francisco office two days per week

Salary: $165,000–$200,000 annual base salary for this United States-based role; eligible for an annual bonus and equity grant.

Company

hirify.global provides technology that helps diners discover and book restaurants while enabling restaurant partners to manage and grow their businesses. hirify.global is part of Booking Holdings.

What you will do

• Partner with Directors, VPs, and SVPs to define hiring criteria, forecast workforce needs, and advise on market conditions.
• Develop advanced sourcing and market-mapping strategies for software engineering, infrastructure, data science, and research talent.
• Lead complex offer negotiations and compensation structuring while providing a high-touch candidate experience.
• Build scalable hiring frameworks, standardized interview rubrics, and structured evaluation processes.
• Advance diversity, equity, and inclusion across technical recruiting pipelines.
• Mentor junior recruiters and sourcers and establish technical recruiting best practices.

Requirements

• 8+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, ideally in-house in high-growth or enterprise technology environments.
• Experience advising senior executives with market data, pass-through rates, and pipeline health metrics.
• Strong understanding of software engineering, infrastructure, data science, or specialized research talent markets.
• Experience with complex, high-level offer negotiations and compensation structuring.
• Ability to work in a hybrid model and commute to the San Francisco office two days per week.

Nice to have

• Experience creating technical hiring initiatives and inclusive sourcing programs.
• Experience establishing interview rubrics and scalable talent assessment frameworks.
• Background in mentoring or coaching recruiters and sourcers.
• Experience with recruitment analytics and talent acquisition dashboards.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid workplace focused on face-to-face collaboration and flexibility.
• Work from almost anywhere for up to 20 days per year.
• Company-paid therapy sessions, Headspace subscription, and an annual company-wide week off.
• Paid parental leave, vacation, birthday time off, sick leave, volunteer time, and other paid holidays.
• Development dollars, leadership development, and access to on-demand learning.
• Health benefits, flexible spending account, retirement benefits, life insurance, travel discounts, employee resource groups, free lunch two days per week, and office amenities including a gym and bike parking.