LMArena
LMArena is hiring: Technical Recruiter in San Francisco
LMArena, San Francisco, CA, US, 94199
About the role
LMArena is hiring a highly collaborative Technical Recruiter to help scale a world-class team. You'll serve as a trusted advisor to candidates and hiring leaders, build repeatable recruiting practices, advance inclusive hiring, support employer brand efforts, and deliver an outstanding candidate experience.
What you'll do
LMArena is hiring a highly collaborative Technical Recruiter to help scale a world-class team. You'll serve as a trusted advisor to candidates and hiring leaders, build repeatable recruiting practices, advance inclusive hiring, support employer brand efforts, and deliver an outstanding candidate experience.
What you'll do
- Partner with hiring managers to clarify role outcomes, success profiles, and interview plans; prioritize reqs against business goals.
- Run full-cycle recruiting: kickoff → JD refinement → sourcing → assessment → debriefs → offer → close.
- Build pipelines via targeted sourcing (passive outreach, talent communities, events, referrals, and thoughtful job posts).
- Maintain a structured, fair process: define competencies, calibrate rubrics, and uphold a consistent candidate experience.
- Hold a relentless drive for excellence in every stage-calibrating rubrics, tightening loops, and continuously improving the funnel.
- Track and improve funnel health (speed, quality, diversity signals); report weekly and quarterly progress with clear narrative and metrics.
- Drive offer strategy and negotiations aligned to leveling, compensation bands, and market insights.
- Nurture long-term networks of high-potential talent; keep a mapped bench for critical and future roles.
- Partner on employer brand moments (events, content, communities) that attract deep-tech talent.
- Coach hiring managers and interviewers on best practices and candidate excellence.
- 10+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting in deep-tech environments.
- Proven strength sourcing and closing passive candidates for high-bar roles; skilled at narrative selling and objection handling.
- Demonstrated ability to translate business needs into clear hiring plans, profiles, and processes.
- Experience collaborating across functions and influencing stakeholders at pace.
- Expertise at hiring across a range of technical skill sets.
- Fluency with structured interviewing, competency rubrics, and recruiting analytics
- Commitment to inclusive hiring and candidate experience.
- A relentless drive for excellence-raising the bar on candidate quality, process rigor, and stakeholder experience.