Sr. Talent Acquisition Partner

About the Role

As the Senior Talent Acquisition Partner at Afresh, you’ll act as a strategic partner to our hiring managers, identifying the technical talent necessary to drive our mission forward.

We’re looking for a high-impact closer—someone who thrives on sourcing niche technical talent and takes pride in high close rates and aggressive time-to-fill metrics. You leverage the latest AI recruitment tooling to automate recruiting pipelines & are ATS and operationally minded.

You are a consultative partner who constructive strategizes & pushes back with hiring managers and executives to drive the success of scaling hires. You know that top engineers are skeptical of low-effort outreach, so you lead with high-signal, technically credible communication—not 'rockstar' clichés. If you’re a full-cycle expert who knows how to move the needle on technical headcount while maintaining an elite candidate experience, this could be the perfect role for you!

Key Responsibilities:

• Build relationships and collaborate with business leaders, hiring managers, and HR colleagues to identify hiring needs, refine job descriptions , and develop talent acquisition strategies for openings at all levels.
• Serve as a candid advisor to hiring managers to define roles and ideal profiles—including raising the bar on expectations and pushing back on requirements that are unrealistic or that will unnecessarily constrain the pipeline.
• Recruit for open roles leveraging a full range of sourcing channels including referrals, internal employees, Linkedin Recruiter, and the latest AI recruitment tooling. You engage passive talent where they actually live including looking at GitHub profile reviews, Stack Overflow contributions, niche Slack communities, and Discord servers.
• Plan and execute full-cycle recruiting. Manage the end-to-end recruiting process for technical positions, from sourcing and screening to interviewing and extending and closing offers. Ensure a smooth, efficient, communicative, and positive experience for all candidates.
• Ensure hiring with excellence by conducting discovery calls with candidates for alignment on compensation requirements to ensure successful offer acceptance and ultimate hire.
• Create exceptional candidate and hiring manager experiences by identifying and anticipating needs, following issues to closure, and collaborating with key stakeholders and exceeding expectations.
• Be excited about AI tooling & the impact AI can have in identifying talent and streamlining the recruitment workflow; test new theories & ideas, and try new AI technology.
• Ideal candidate can seamlessly pivot between technical roles (Software Engineering, Data Science, Product) and GTM roles (Sales, Marketing, Account Management).
• Own our ATS (Greenhouse). You will ensure data integrity, optimize workflows, and use the platform to provide transparent reporting to stakeholders.
• Must be analytics driven, building reports for the executive team on pipeline health, time-to-fill, offer acceptance rate, and cost-per-hire.
• Ensure all job postings and hiring practices remain compliant with local and federal labor laws in partnership with HR.
• Deliver Process Excellence. Facilitate interview debriefs, drive decision-making, and maintain a high bar for candidate experience.
• All other duties and projects, as assigned.

Who You Are

• You have 7+ years of experience in full-cycle recruiting, ideally in a high-growth startup environment where you’ve had to be self-sufficient.
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