Senior Manager, Recruiting

TL;DR

Senior Manager, Recruiting: Lead and scale a team of recruiters and sourcers while owning critical technical and business-critical searches with an accent on end-to-end search strategy, interview operations, and assessment rigor. Focus on using recruiting data to improve funnel health and hiring outcomes, and on building talent intelligence and proactive sourcing pipelines.

Location: Palo Alto, CA

Salary: $185,000 - $210,000 USD

Company

Quince is a direct-to-consumer retail tech company using AI, analytics, and automation to deliver high-quality essentials at low prices.

What you will do

• Lead and scale a team of recruiters, setting priorities and raising recruiting craft standards.
• Partner with senior leadership to drive workforce needs and deliver against critical hiring goals.
• Own high-priority technical searches and personally drive select critical roles, including senior leadership hiring.
• Build and execute rigorous search plans from intake through close (role calibration, market mapping, sourcing strategy, assessment design, closing plans).
• Improve interviewing operations and hiring process quality by partnering with Recruiting, People, and business leaders.
• Use recruiting analytics to diagnose bottlenecks and improve funnel health, search velocity, recruiter productivity, and hiring outcomes.

Requirements

• 8+ years of recruiting experience, including meaningful experience managing or leading recruiters and/or sourcers.
• 4+ years of managing and leading recruiting teams.
• Proven success hiring in high-growth, high-bar technology environments.
• Experience operating as a player-coach: manage the team while personally owning and closing critical searches.
• Strong recruiting fundamentals: sourcing strategy, talent mapping, candidate assessment, interview design, funnel management, and closing.
• Strong analytical orientation with experience using recruiting data to improve process and performance.

Nice to have

• Experience scaling recruiting from early-stage startup environments to late-stage growth.
• Experience building high-performing recruiting teams in a fast-paced hybrid work model.
• Experience with advanced talent intelligence and market mapping for niche technical roles.
• Experience partnering with executive leadership to define and execute comprehensive talent strategies.

Culture & Benefits

• High-impact player-coach role in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Opportunity to build recruiting functions and hiring processes from the ground up.
• Base salary range of $185,000–$210,000 USD; bonus and equity may be provided for eligible roles.
• Mission-driven company focused on sustainable, fair, and transparent retail.
• Onsite hiring strategies and local branding initiatives to build market presence.

Hiring process

• Interviews conducted via phone, in person, or approved platforms (Google Meets or Zoom).
• Offers are merit-based and communicated verbally, followed by written confirmation.