Technical Recruiter

Role Details

Location: San Francisco, CA. This role is based 2 days per week out of our San Francisco, HQ and is not eligible for full-time remote work.

Compensation: The annual salary range for this role is $124,000-166,000 in addition to equity & benefits.

The range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target depending on the location of each candidate. In addition to location, other factors including level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience will determine compensation.

About Gem

Gem is the AI-powered recruiting platform TA teams love. It helps you maximize productivity, hire faster, and save money – all while giving recruiters a solution they find easy to use. Use Gem as your all-in-one recruiting platform or enhance your existing ATS with integrated products for CRM, sourcing, scheduling, analytics, career sites, events, and more. Over 1,000 companies – from startups to industry leaders like Airbnb, Wayfair, Cintas, Carmax, Doordash, and Zillow – trust Gem to hire with speed and ease. Gem is the recruiting industry’s most beloved solution, with a 4.8/5 rating on G2.

With Gem, You Can

• Attract, engage, and hire talent faster: Build talent pipelines across all channels through sourcing, nurture, events, career sites, inbound, and more. With Gem, teams can source talent five times faster and double their talent pipelines.
• Maximize recruiter productivity: Use AI and automation to save time on routine tasks like reviewing applications, scheduling interviews, and managing follow-ups. Recruiters using Gem can review twice as many applications, schedule twice as many interviews, and engage four times as many candidates as before.
• Unlock data-driven recruiting: Get analytics that everyone can use. Debug your funnel, monitor pipelines, forecast hiring, and demonstrate impact, all without complex BI tools. With Gem, TA teams use data to position themselves as strategic partners to the business.
• Simplify your tech stack and cut costs: Consolidate multiple tools into one platform and reduce your spend on recruiting technology, external sourcing, and job boards by up to 50%. Save on standalone solutions with Gem’s end-to-end bundle and take advantage of past candidate relationships to reduce your reliance on sourcing new talent.

And Just As We Strive To Help Our Customers Find Great Talent, We Also Invest In Our Own People And Culture. We Are Proud Of The Culture We’ve Built And Have Recently Been Recognized As

• Forbes America's Best Startup Employers 2024
• Great Place to Work Certified, 2023
• Fortune Best Workplaces for Millennials, 2023

The company has raised $148M in funding from Accel, Greylock, ICONIQ, and more.

The Team & Role

Our Recruiting Team is responsible for helping grow the Gem family. We care deeply about building a high performing, diverse, and collaborative team where people can do their best work and have a blast while doing it. Being at the center of a company that builds modern recruiting software, the People Team is empowered to bring a high level of strategic thinking and innovate practices into how we grow Gem.

As Gem’s Technical Recruiter reporting to our Head of People, you’ll run full-cycle searches and strategically partner with our CTO, Head of Product, and other technical leadership to engage with top talent for our Engineering, Product, and Design teams.

What You’ll Do Day-to-Day

• Own full-lifecycle recruiting for our Engineering, Product, and Design (EPD) teams.
• Collaborate with hiring managers to scope and design interview processes.
• Drive sourcing, including creative and traditional strategies.
• Own communication between the interview teams and drive velocity of hiring.
• Coach interviewers and managers on interviewing and closing best practices.
• Report on pipeline health in a data-driven manner using Gem.
• Be a thought partner with leadership on how to build a world-class EPD team.

About You

• 3-5 years of in-house technical recruiting experience.
• Proven experience sourcing, engaging, and closing high-quality technical talent.
• Experience designing thoughtful and efficient candidate experiences.
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment, early-stage startups preferred.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication.

Gem is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate our inclusive work environment and encourage folks of all backgrounds and perspectives to apply. At Gem, we’re committed to having an inclusive and transparent environment where every voice is heard and acknowledged. We embrace our differences and know that our diverse team is a strength that drives our success.

Gem is committed to developing a barrier-free recruitment process and work environment. If you require any accommodation, please email us at and we’ll work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

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