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Technical Recruiter

$90k - $110k
Full-time

Harbinger Motors

About Harbinger

Harbinger is an American commercial electric vehicle (EV) company on a mission to transform an industry starving for innovation. Harbinger’s best-in-class team of EV, battery, and drivetrain experts have pooled their deep experience to bring a first-of-its-kind EV platform to support the growing demand for medium-duty EVs and Hybrids. Harbinger: Familiar Form, Revolutionary Foundation.

Job Overview

Harbinger Motors is seeking a talented Technical Recruiter to help scale our engineering and manufacturing teams. As a recruiter you will own the full-cycle recruiting process, leveraging creative sourcing strategies to attract and close the elite technical talent critical to our mission. This person would be onsite in our Garden Grove, CA office 4 days a week.

What You'll Do

  • Strategic Sourcing: Actively hunt for premier technical professionals using a mix of headhunting, industry networking, employee referrals, and innovative outreach campaigns.
  • Stakeholder Alignment: Collaborate with engineering leaders and hiring managers to establish clear job requirements, create interview scorecards, and map out customized search plans for every new requisition.
  • Assessment & Vetting: Perform in-depth preliminary interviews to gauge a candidate's technical baseline, career motivations, and cultural alignment before moving them forward in the process.
  • Process Optimization: Architect and oversee structured interview panels, navigate complex scheduling dynamics, and drive a fast, efficient evaluation pipeline across multiple teams.
  • Candidate Advocacy: Serve as the primary point of contact and guide for applicants. You will ensure they receive prompt feedback, transparent communication, and an exceptional experience that highlights Harbinger’s core values.
  • Metrics & ATS Management: Champion data integrity within Greenhouse. Monitor vital recruitment metrics (like time-to-hire, conversion rates, and channel ROI) to identify bottlenecks and optimize our hiring workflows.

What You'll Bring

Core Requirements:

  • Experience: 3+ years driving full-life-cycle recruitment, with a heavy emphasis on technical and engineering roles.
  • Proactive Sourcing: Demonstrated success in identifying passive talent, nurturing long-term relationships, and accelerating the hiring cycle.
  • Tech Stack: Proficiency navigating modern applicant tracking systems (Greenhouse preferred) and utilizing advanced digital sourcing platforms.
  • Time Management: Highly organized with the capacity to juggle multiple high-priority requisitions simultaneously without sacrificing candidate quality or process speed.
  • Closing Expertise: Advanced negotiation skills with a history of successfully landing highly sought-after technical talent in competitive markets.
  • Communication: Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, enabling you to build trust and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization.

Bonus Points

  • Hardware/Manufacturing Expertise: Proven experience recruiting specifically for mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or manufacturing roles.
  • Startup Agility: Prior experience scaling technical teams within a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment.
  • Industry Knowledge: Familiarity with the electric vehicle (EV) or commercial automotive sectors.

Key Benefits & Perks

  • Comprehensive Health, Dental & Vision (HDV) – 100% employee covered
  • Early-stage Stock Options
  • Robust Retirement Savings (401k, HSA, FSA)
  • Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) & Parental Leave
  • Annual Vacation Bonus
  • Wellness & Fertility Benefits
  • Cell Phone Stipend
  • Complimentary Meals & Stocked Kitchens

California Pay Range

$90,000—$110,000 USD

Equal Opportunity

Harbinger is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Harbinger is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities. If you have a disability or limitation, such as those covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process, please email us at View email address on ev.careers.

Candidate Data Privacy

Harbinger may collect, use and disclose your personal information or personal data (within the meaning of the applicable data protection laws) when you apply for employment and/or participate in our recruitment processes (“Candidate Personal Data”). This data includes contact, demographic, communications, educational, professional, employment, social media/website, network/device, recruiting system usage/interaction, security and preference information. Harbinger may use your Candidate Personal Data for the purposes of (i) tracking interactions with our recruiting system; (ii) carrying out, analyzing and improving our application and recruitment process, including assessing you and your application and conducting employment, background and reference checks; (iii) establishing an employment relationship or entering into an employment contract with you; (iv) complying with our legal, regulatory and corporate governance obligations; (v) recordkeeping; (vi) ensuring network and information security and preventing fraud; and (vii) as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law.

Harbinger may share your Candidate Personal Data with (i) internal personnel who have a need to know such information in order to perform their duties, including individuals on our HR, legal, and finance teams, and the team(s) with the position(s) for which you are applying; (ii) Harbinger affiliates; and (iii) Harbinger’s service providers, including providers of background checks, staffing services, and cloud services.

Harbinger may transfer or store internationally your Candidate Personal Data, including to or in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union and in the cloud, and this data may be subject to the laws and accessible to the courts, law enforcement and national security authorities of such jurisdictions.

Please note that we are currently not accepting applications from third party application services. Any unsolicited resumes or candidate profiles submitted in response to our job posting shall be considered the property of Harbinger and are not subject to payment of referral or placement fees if any such candidate is later hired by Harbinger unless you have a signed written agreement in place with us which covers the applicable job posting.
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