Senior Recruiter & Team Lead

The Mission

You'll inherit foundational recruiting practices and a strong base to build from but we're looking for someone who brings fresh ideas and elevates our function to the next level.

This role is built for an ambitious recruiter who wants to stay close to the craft while growing into talent leadership. If you're a Senior Recruiter ready to take on more, leading team meetings, influencing how we hire, and helping build something that scales, this is your stepping stone into TA leadership.

What You'll Do

• Drive full-cycle recruiting across GTM and EPD, partnering directly with leaders, delivering consistent, high-quality hires that raise the talent bar.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to hiring leaders on calibration, candidate quality, and closing, ensuring every hire is assessed on long-term potential and fit, not just credentials.

• Proactively identify and engage exceptional talent across industry and academia, building relationships before roles open so we're never starting from zero.

• Build and refine recruiting processes, workflows, and interview structures that make Fiddler's hiring scalable, repeatable, and a model for what great talent acquisition looks like at a high-growth AI company.

• Bring sharp, consistent people judgment to every evaluation, assessing candidates on who they're becoming, not just where they've been.

• Create and manage targeted outreach campaigns and bias-free evaluation frameworks that improve both the quality and diversity of our candidate pipeline.

• Manage 8–12 open roles simultaneously with the organization and discipline to keep every search moving without sacrificing candidate experience.

• Enhance Fiddler's employer brand with candidates so that every interaction, regardless of outcome, leaves people wanting to work here

What We're Looking For

• 7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience in a high-growth tech or SaaS environment

• Experience recruiting across GTM and EPD, with the ability to context-switch and calibrate across very different talent profiles

• Comfortable partnering with and influencing senior leadership on hiring strategy, not just executing against it

• Proven track record of engaging and closing hard-to-reach candidates in competitive markets, often against offers from larger, more established companies

• Has built or meaningfully improved recruiting processes, workflows, or interview structures from the ground up

• Ready to take a genuine first step into talent leadership, contributing to team rhythm, mentorship, and how the function operates

• Hybrid, ability to work with our team from our Palo Alto office minimum 2x a week (M/Th)

Compensation

$145,000 - $180,000 Bay Area Only

This is a hybrid role, we are currently looking for local Bay Area talent to join our team at this time, but may consider opening it to remote locations in future

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive pay + equity

• Premium health, dental & vision

• 401(k) plan

• Open PTO

• Monthly fitness reimbursement

• Paid parental leave

• Palo Alto HQ vibes

• Annual Caltrain pass

• Monthly in-office massages

• Fastrak reimbursement

• Lunch provided in office Mon-Thurs

The posted range represents the expected salary range for this job requisition and does not include any other potential components of the compensation package and perks previously outlined. Ultimately, in determining pay, we'll consider your experience, leveling, location, and other job-related factors.

Fiddler is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you require special accommodations in order to complete the interviews or perform job duties, please inform the recruiter at the beginning of the process.

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