BetterUp

Sr. R&D Recruiter (Contract)

BetterUp$176K — $187K *
Staffing
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of recruiting experience including agency and in-house roles
  • 4+ years of technical full-lifecycle recruiting for R&D positions
  • Proven experience managing relationships with VP+ hiring partners
  • Track record of using recruiting data for process improvement
  • Experience presenting competitive compensation packages and closing candidates
  • Fluency with ATS platforms and creative sourcing strategies

Responsibilities

  • Partner with HR and leadership to define future talent strategies
  • Serve as a trusted advisor on talent acquisition decisions
  • Build innovative hiring strategies for diverse technical roles
  • Ensure clear expectations and thorough follow-up with hiring teams
  • Source high-quality talent and build diverse applicant pipelines
  • Drive an effective candidate assessment process
  • Embed DEIB practices into every talent search
  • Foster strong candidate relationships that reflect BetterUp's value proposition
  • Leverage AI in talent acquisition to enhance sourcing and assessment

Benefits

  • Remote work flexibility within the US
  • Opportunity to work with a forward-thinking, AI-enabled organization
  • Engage in a dynamic and evolving recruiting landscape
  • Collaborate with senior leaders and influential hiring partners
  • Emphasis on continuous learning and using technology to enhance impact
Full Job Description
As a Senior Technical Recruiter (Contract) at BetterUp, you'll partner with engineering, product, and design leadership to build forward-looking talent strategies and identify the brilliant, passionate people who will do the best work of their lives here. You bring a builder's mentality - someone who goes through the trenches, proactively navigates competing priorities, and takes extreme ownership of outcomes. Tenacious curiosity and a commitment to mastering your craft are what will make you thrive in this role. What you'll do: - Partner with HR and senior hiring team members (Manager through VP+) to define and implement forward-looking talent strategies that address future talent needs - Serve as a trusted advisor to managers and leaders, influencing org-level and requisition-level talent acquisition decisions - Build creative, audacious hiring strategies across a portfolio of technical roles - and deliver on them - Set clear expectations with hiring teams through thorough follow-up and follow-through at every stage of the process - Source ferociously to find the best global talent for each role; build diverse, high-quality top-of-funnel pipelines - Drive a candidate assessment process that enables BetterUp to hire exceptional talent that's right for us - Embed DEIB sourcing and assessment practices into every search - Build memorable candidate relationships that authentically demonstrate BetterUp's employer value proposition If you have the following experience, please apply: - 7+ years of recruiting experience, ideally with both agency and in-house exposure; at least 4 years recruiting internally at a growth-stage startup - 4+ years of technical full-lifecycle recruiting for a variety of R&D role, particularly product, design and engineering - Proven experience managing VP+ hiring partner relationships as the primary recruiting point of contact - Track record of using recruiting data to identify opportunities to improve hiring process quality and assessment rigor - Experience closing candidates, articulating pre-IPO equity, and presenting competitive total compensation packages - Fluency with ATS platforms, LinkedIn Recruiter, boolean search, and creative sourcing strategies AI at BetterUp: At BetterUp, we're building an AI-enabled organization where continuous reinvention is a core value. Every team member leverages emerging technologies to unlock innovative solutions and maximize impact. As a Senior Technical Recruiter (P4), you'll: - Drive functional strategy for AI adoption within talent acquisition, identifying transformational opportunities that create competitive advantage in how we source, assess, and close technical talent - Build scalable AI-powered recruiting workflows - from intelligent sourcing and candidate screening to automated scheduling and pipeline analytics - that fundamentally change how work gets done - Serve as a trusted advisor to TA leadership on AI capabilities, limitations, and strategic implications for technical hiring - Establish governance frameworks and best practices for responsible AI usage across the recruiting function - Demonstrate outsized impact through AI expertise and the ability to influence and upskill recruiting peers We encourage all candidates to share examples of how they've used AI tools in their work - whether sourcing automation, outreach personalization, or data-driven pipeline analysis. We view AI fluency as a complement to craft, not a replacement for it. During our interview process, you'll have opportunities to showcase how you harness AI to learn, iterate, and amplify your impact. Workforce Policy & Location: - This is a remote position based in the US The compensation range for the role is as follows: This is a short-term contract position at $85-90/hour (40 hours/week). As a contract role, standard BetterUp employee benefits do not apply. #LI-Hybrid

About BetterUp

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, KCVO, ADC is a member of the British royal family. As the younger son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, he is sixth in the line of succession to the British throne. Born in St Mary's Hospital, London, Harry was educated at Wetherby School, Ludgrove School, and Eton College. He spent parts of his gap year in Australia and Lesotho, then underwent officer training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He was commissioned as a cornet into the Blues and Royals, serving temporarily with his brother William and completed training as a troop leader. In 2007–2008, he served for over ten weeks in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. He returned to Afghanistan for a 20-week deployment in 2012–2013 with the Army Air Corps. In June 2015, he resigned from the army. Harry launched the Invictus Games in 2014 and remains the patron of its foundation. He also gives patronage to several other organisations, including the HALO Trust and Walking With The Wounded. To encourage people to open up about their mental health issues, Harry, alongside the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, initiated the mental health awareness campaign "Heads Together" in April 2016. In 2018, Harry was made Duke of Sussex prior to his wedding to American actress Meghan Markle. In January 2020, the couple stepped down as senior members of the royal family and moved to the Duchess's native Southern California. In October 2020, they launched Archewell Inc., an American public organisation that focuses on non-profit activities and creative media ventures. They have two children, Archie and Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor.
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