Our Senior Talent Acquisition Partner will be at the forefront of hiring Product, Engineering, and other technical roles that directly support Unanet’s next phase of growth. You won’t join a company in maintenance mode - you will play a pivotal role hiring talent that ties to product roadmap commitments that drive revenue.
Reporting to our Vice President of Talent, you will operate as a high-output, full-lifecycle recruiter responsible for closing experienced technical talent under ambitious, but attainable timelines. You will ramp quickly, build pipelines through proactive sourcing, and deliver hires that meet a high bar for quality and long-term impact.
We’re looking for someone who uses artificial intelligence (AI) as a force multiplier to improve speed, decision-making, and hiring outcomes. If you thrive in fast-moving environments where execution matters and your results are highly visible, you’ll do your best work here.
What You’ll Do
- Own full lifecycle recruiting for technical roles, with a focus on Software Development, Cloud Ops/Architecture, Product Management, and UX
- Consistently deliver against our hiring forecast, regularly closing engineering roles within 45-60 days while maintaining a high bar for talent
- Execute proactive sourcing strategies where sourced hires outweigh inbound ones
- Inspire hiring teams to make talent acquisition a priority in their daily work
- Partner with hiring team to run effective intakes, defining clear success profiles, and execute targeted hiring strategies
- Leverage AI throughout the recruiting lifecycle to increase velocity and improve hiring outcomes – this includes sourcing, screening, interview design, and candidate evaluation
- Identify and mitigate candidate fraud at multiple gates through process design and tooling
- Drive a best-in-class candidate experience from first touch through offer, maintaining a >90% offer acceptance rate
- Facilitate interview debriefs and guide hiring teams towards high-quality hiring decisions
- Serve as subject matter expert (SME) on all things recruiting; educate and advise hiring teams quickly becoming their go-to
Your First 90 Days
In your first 30 days, you will learn our business and how our talent acquisition team operates. You will immerse yourself in our recruiting tech stack. You will learn, question, validate and execute our talent acquisition strategies – providing your insights along the way. Your first hire will be rewarding, and we’ll support you in making within your first month on the team.
In your first 60 days, our hiring teams will regularly come to you for guidance. You’ll coach them and escalate any unknowns to our Vice President of Talent. By now, you will have become well-versed in our job architecture. With a keen eye for talent and candidate experience, you will help us up-level our processes and workforce.
In your first 90 days, you’re running now. You’re conducting intake meetings and dialing-in our recruitment strategy, strengthening our teams as your requisitions are filled. You’re helping us maintain our > 92% offer-acceptance rate. Your hires in your first quarter are loving their new job, and our team is loving you because you connected them.
Who You Are
- 5+ years of full lifecycle recruiting experience in B2B SaaS, with a strong track record of closing senior-level technical talent
- Proven ability to fill complex roles (e.g., Software Engineers, Cloud/DevOps, Product, UX) within forecasted timelines
- Highly effective at sourcing passive candidates and building pipelines from scratch
- Demonstrated experience using AI to materially improve recruiting outcomes
- Comfortable operating under pressure with multiple competing priorities, with ability to deliver without sacrificing candidate quality or experience
- Sound judgment, decision-making and creativity to address fast-evolving needs
- Excellent communicator who can influence hiring teams, challenge assumptions, and drive alignment
Your Differentiators
- You’re energized by execution and ownership. You will carry a meaningful requisition load, and your work will be highly visible.
- You have an eye for talent and an ability to maintain relationships such that you can fill gaps that either haven’t yet been identified, defined, or actively pursued.
Our Team
We believe in sourcing passive talent and minimizing agency spend. We’re a remote-first team that prioritizes talent over geography – as long as you sit in the U.S., you can work from anywhere.
We’re a no-ego, high-output team. We cover for each other, we pick up reqs outside our lane, and we close them. This role is about execution. You will be closing senior-level technical talent regularly under 60 days open-to-close, maintaining a high offer-acceptance rate, and building pipelines where sourced candidates outweigh your inbound.
We move fast, but we hire right. We don’t cut corners, and we take candidate fraud seriously. You’ll be expected to prioritize effectively when everything feels urgent, use sound judgment, and apply the right evaluative techniques to ensure we’re making the exceptional hires.
We’re a private equity-backed business in growth mode, and hiring is directly tied to our ability to deliver on our product roadmap and drive revenue. When we find the right candidate, we act: your offers won’t sit in approval limbo.
Your manager, Nick, wrote this job post. I’m hands-on and in the trenches with you. I’ve personally hired over 200 employees at Unanet, and I care deeply about building a team that delivers results while continuing to evolve how we hire. You’ll partner closely with me and our Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, Jess, to execute now and build what’s next.
Our Values
- We are a Team. Employees, customers, and partners working together.
- We are Customer-Focused. Customers are the heart of everything we do.
- We are Driven. Seeking exceptional outcomes.
- We Own our Success. Every employee has a stake in our company.
- We do the right thing and have fun in the process.
The salary range for this opportunity is $120,000 - $145,000 per year. You will be eligible for employee equity as well as discretionary bonus compensation, subject to plans that may be in effect from time to time. You will further be eligible to participate in Unanet's employee benefits plans and programs. For more details on Unanet's benefits offerings, please visit https://unanet.com/employee-benefits.
Unanet is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants will be considered for positions without regard to race, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws.
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