Senior Technical Recruiter

About OpendoorAt Opendoor our mission is to tilt the world in favor of homeowners and those who aim to become one. Homeownership matters. It's how people build wealth, stability, and community. It's how families put down roots, how neighborhoods strengthen, how the future gets built. We're building the modern system of homeownership giving people the freedom to buy and sell on their own terms. We’ve built an end-to-end online experience that has already helped thousands of people and we’re just getting started.The OpportunityWe’re hiring a Senior Technical Recruiter to build something — not join it. This is a founding-caliber role on a lean People team intentionally constructing recruiting with AI embedded into every workflow from day one.You will own full-cycle recruiting for our most technically demanding stakeholders across product and platform. And you’ll help define what great technical recruiting looks like at Opendoor while you do it.Why this role is differentDirect access to leadership. Real ownership over process design. Latitude to experiment. The best recruiting happens when recruiters are embedded in the technical domain they hire for — we want someone who earns that depth.What You’ll OwnFull-Cycle Technical RecruitingRun end-to-end searches for technical roles intake to closeBuild multi-channel sourcing strategies: targeted outbound, GitHub deep dives, community engagement, referral activation, and any combination of creative sources for the best talentHold substantive screening conversations covering system design, ML fundamentals, and engineering trade-offsPartner with hiring managers to define roles and maintain a sharp talent bar throughoutStakeholder PartnershipBecome the trusted talent partner for our most technical and demanding hiring managersPush back on role scope, speed, bar, or market reality — with dataTranslate complex technical requirements into compelling candidate narratives and sourcing strategiesOwn pipeline communication proactively; never let a hiring manager wonder what’s happeningAI-Embedded RecruitingUse AI to accelerate sourcing, screening, outreach, and pipeline analytics — this is the operating model, not a featureBuild and document workflows that can be scaled, templatized, and handed offIdentify where automation creates leverage and advocate for itFunction BuildingDesign recruiting processes, hiring manager playbooks, and interview frameworks from scratchContribute to ATS hygiene, job description templates, outreach sequences, and reportingConnect recruiting seamlessly to onboarding, leveling, and compensation frameworksWhat You’ll BringMust-Haves7+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting at a high-growth tech company where you owned the process top to bottomProven track record recruiting for Software Engineering and ML/AI or similar technical roles — you know the leveling distinctions and can articulate the bar at each levelExperience in a lean or startup environment where you built process from scratch and moved fast without sacrificing qualityAI-assisted recruiting fluency — you’re already using it, not planning to learn itYou can run a business review, handle a hard stakeholder conversation, and write a crisp JD in the same dayYou track your own pipeline metrics, diagnose drop-off, and come to reviews with insights — not status updatesStrong DifferentiatorsExperience recruiting specifically for Engineers, MLOps, or AI platform rolesPrior experience building or auditing a recruiting function: ATS setup, process documentation, interview trainingFamiliarity with technical assessment design — take-homes, coding challenges, system design rubricsBackground in fintech, marketplace, or consumer techLocationThis role is based in one of our offices, in-person four days per week. We're looking for candidates who are enthusiastic about an in-office culture; people who want to build alongside their teammates, not from a distance. #LI-RS1