Occupation
Recruiter
A recruiter identifies, sources, and hires talent for open positions, using tools like LinkedIn Recruiter and applicant tracking systems to manage candidate pipelines from sourcing through offer. They conduct interviews and build candidate relationship management practices to keep strong prospects engaged over time. Recruiters may work in-house for a single company or externally at a staffing agency, and the role rewards strong networking, sales-like persuasion, and people-reading skills.
Duties & responsibilities
- Source and identify qualified candidates using LinkedIn Recruiter, applicant tracking systems, and professional networks
- Conduct phone screens and interviews to assess candidate skills, experience, and cultural fit
- Manage full-cycle hiring from job opening through offer negotiation and candidate placement
- Build and maintain candidate pipelines and relationships to fill current and future positions
- Partner with hiring managers to understand role requirements and refine sourcing strategies
- Use recruiting data and metrics to improve hiring processes and candidate quality
- Research talent markets and create sourcing strategies for specialized or hard-to-fill roles
What Recruiter roles involve, from employers’ own postings.
How much does a Recruiter make?
Employers posting Recruiter roles list a median of $153,000 a year (middle half $131,000–$178,000), from 27 postings that state pay.
56% of open Recruiter roles publish a range. Only some employers state pay, and the ones that do skew to California and New York, where the law requires it. Which states’ postings state pay
Who is hiring for Recruiter roles?
48 open Recruiter roles from 34 employers; the most at Astranis, Launch Potato and Shield AI, and in California, New York and Washington, D.C..
From employers’ own postings, as of.
Recruiter in the job market
Last checked October 28, 2026
- Open roles
- 48
- Employers
- 34
- Median pay
- $153,000
- Disclose pay
- 56%
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Open Recruiter roles (48)
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Contract · Nashville, TN
This contract role focuses on rapidly sourcing and screening candidates for high-priority openings while maintaining relationships with hiring managers and preserving candidate experience. It suits experienced recruiters who thrive managing multiple searches at once and can balance speed with the discipline of accurate record-keeping and fair selection practices.
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Recruiter, GTM (Contract)
Crusoe
Contract · San Francisco, CA · $70 – $80 / hour
Crusoe seeks an experienced full-cycle recruiter to own GTM hiring across sales, customer success, marketing, and related functions during a six-month contract period. This autonomous role suits someone who has built pipelines and closed senior hires in fast-growing tech companies and wants to scale a recruiting operation while partnering closely with leadership.
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Jabil
Florence, KY
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AST SpaceMobile
Midland, TX
This role leads full-cycle recruiting for hourly technical positions in aerospace manufacturing, focusing on sourcing and hiring avionics, composite, and RF technicians to support spacecraft production scaling. It suits someone with hands-on manufacturing or aerospace recruiting experience who can build pipelines, manage hiring velocity, and partner directly with operations teams in a fast-paced environment.
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Heil Environmental Industries
US-FL Home
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Talent Partner, Technical
Modal
New York, NY · $180,000 – $220,000
Modal is seeking a technical recruiter to lead engineering and AI/ML hiring as the company's first dedicated talent partner in this space. You'll own full-cycle recruitment, partner with technical leaders to set hiring standards, and help build the team that powers Modal's AI infrastructure platform.
Listed on Modal’s careers site · Apply there ↗
Talent Acquisition Lead, Performance Marketing
Launch Potato
United States (remote)
Launch Potato seeks a hands-on recruiter to own full-cycle hiring for senior and hard-to-fill affiliate and performance marketing roles, building pipelines, designing screening rubrics, and coaching the recruiting operations team without layers or handoffs. The role suits someone who has hired for or within affiliate and performance marketing businesses and excels at direct sourcing, closing senior talent, and creating systems that improve the hiring process over time.
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Talent Researcher
Deepgram
USA - Remote · $140,000 – $180,000
This role involves researching talent markets, building candidate pipelines, and surfacing market intelligence to accelerate hiring across technical and leadership positions. It suits someone who enjoys detective work in talent acquisition—turning raw hiring needs into structured insights and finding strong candidates before positions open.
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This role leads cross-functional recruiting initiatives and operations at Anthropic, handling the ambiguous, high-stakes work that spans multiple teams. It suits someone with deep recruiting experience who thrives in complexity, can influence without direct authority, and excels at turning messy problems into repeatable systems.
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Talent Acquisition Manager
Deepgram
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Deepgram seeks a hands-on leader to manage their talent acquisition team and drive recruiting across the company as it scales in the voice AI space. You'll combine team leadership with hands-on recruiting, use AI to build smarter sourcing and screening workflows, and partner with engineering and go-to-market leaders to fill roles that matter most.
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Head of Talent Acquisition APAC
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Lead a recruitment team across APAC at Western Union, managing 5-7 talent partners and driving high-volume hiring programs to support rapid business growth. This role combines hands-on people leadership with strategic workforce planning, suited to experienced recruiters ready to scale operations across multiple markets.
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Manager, Talent Acquisition - Product and Engineering (Hybrid)
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CrowdStrike is hiring a manager to lead their global talent acquisition team for product and engineering roles, overseeing recruiters while handling direct sourcing and hiring strategy. This role suits experienced recruiting leaders who want to scale a team while staying hands-on with technical hiring.
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Director, Talent Acquisition – Sourcing
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Pittsburgh, PA · $163,200 – $244,800
Duolingo seeks a Director of Talent Acquisition to oversee sourcing strategy, build pipelines for critical roles, and mentor the recruiting team on best practices. This leadership position suits experienced talent acquisition professionals ready to drive process improvements and hiring effectiveness at scale in a high-growth tech environment.
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Senior Manager, Technical Recruiting
Crusoe
San Francisco, CA · $175,000 – $215,000
Crusoe seeks a Senior Manager to lead and scale their technical recruiting function across engineering, infrastructure, and AI teams during a period of rapid growth. This role combines strategic workforce planning with hands-on leadership of a recruiting team, requiring someone who can build scalable hiring processes while maintaining talent quality.
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Group Manager, Talent Acquisition - Tech
Intuit
Mountain View, CA · $202,500 – $282,000
Intuit seeks an experienced recruiting leader to manage their technical talent acquisition team and develop strategies for hiring engineers, data scientists, and technical leaders across their tech ecosystem. This role suits someone with deep technical recruiting expertise and proven success building recruiting teams who wants to shape hiring strategy at scale for a major technology company.
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What employers state they pay
Median
$153,000
Middle half
$131,000 – $178,000
From 27 of 48 open roles — the 56% that publish a range, annualized to USD. Only some employers state pay, and the ones that do skew to California and New York, where the law requires it.
Who employers are hiring
- Entry5%
- Mid39%
- Senior29%
- Lead / Staff / Principal24%
- Management3%
From 38 roles whose posting states a level.
Skills Recruiter postings ask for
Measured from the 48 open roles, not from a curated list.
- Greenhouse8 roles16.7%
- LinkedIn Recruiter7 roles14.6%
- Applicant Tracking Systems4 roles8.3%
- LinkedIn3 roles6.3%
- Talent Acquisition3 roles6.3%
Where Recruiter roles are
Among the 33 of 48 open roles we could place on a map.
- New York10
Employers hiring Recruiters
34 in total, most open roles first.
- AAstranis4 roles
- LPLaunch Potato4 roles
- SAShield AI4 roles
- HHightouch3 roles
- DDuolingo2 roles
Micron Technology2 roles- MModal2 roles
- ARAgility Robotics1 role