Full Job Description
We are looking for a talented and driven Talent Acquisition Partner to join our growing People team. In this role, you will own full-cycle recruiting for some of Stord's most competitive and highest-impact hires: Data Engineers & Data Scientists, AI Engineers, Product Managers, and Software Engineers. You'll act as a true hybrid of technical and product recruiter - equally comfortable evaluating a candidate's system design chops as you are assessing product sense and roadmap thinking.
You'll partner directly with engineering and product leadership to understand hiring needs, build sourcing strategies for hard-to-find skillsets, and deliver an exceptional candidate experience from first outreach through offer. This is a high-visibility role within our R&D organization, where your ability to identify, engage, and close top technical and product talent will directly shape the teams building the next generation of software at Stord.
What You'll Do:
• Full-Cycle Recruiting: Own the end-to-end recruiting process for technical and product roles - intake, sourcing, screening, interview coordination, offer negotiation, and close.
• Strategic Sourcing: Build and execute creative sourcing strategies (LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean/X-ray search, GitHub, niche communities, referrals) to identify passive candidates for hard-to-fill roles like AI Engineers and Data Scientists.
• Stakeholder Partnership: Partner closely with hiring managers across Engineering, Data, AI, and Product to define role requirements, calibrate candidate profiles, and build hiring plans that scale with the business.
• Candidate Experience: Act as a brand ambassador for Stord, delivering a thoughtful, transparent, and fast-moving experience for every candidate, regardless of outcome.
• Technical & Product Assessment: Develop enough fluency in engineering, data, and product domains to accurately screen for technical depth, product sense, and role fit - asking sharp, informed questions in early-stage conversations.
• Pipeline & Market Insight: Track pipeline health, conversion metrics, and time-to-fill; bring market intelligence (compensation trends, competitor movement, talent availability) back to hiring teams.
• Process Improvement: Continuously refine interview processes, scorecards, and workflows to reduce time-to-hire while maintaining a high talent bar.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Work with People Ops, Compensation, and other TA Partners to ensure consistent, equitable, and compliant hiring practices across the org.
What You'll Need:
• 4+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with a strong focus on technical and/or product hiring
• Demonstrated success recruiting for roles such as Software Engineers, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, AI/ML Engineers, or Product Managers
• Strong sourcing skills, including advanced Boolean/X-ray search and passive candidate outreach
• Ability to credibly engage technical and product stakeholders, translating role requirements into effective sourcing and screening strategies
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with a track record of strong candidate and hiring manager satisfaction
• Experience managing a high-volume, multi-req pipeline in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
• Proficiency with an ATS (e.g., Workday, Greenhouse, Lever) and recruiting tools (LinkedIn Recruiter, sourcing extensions, etc.)
• Data-driven approach to recruiting, with comfort tracking and reporting on pipeline metrics
Bonus Points
• Previous in-house recruiting experience at a high-growth startup or scale-up
• Experience recruiting for AI/ML or applied data science teams specifically
• Background or working knowledge of software engineering, data infrastructure, or product management concepts
• Experience partnering with Engineering and Product leadership on headcount planning
• Previous logistics, supply chain, or commerce/e-commerce industry experience
• Experience building out employer branding or talent marketing initiatives