Lead Technical Recruiter
Chime- Base salary
- $130k–$180k Published base salary range
- Location
- Hybrid - San Francisco, CA, USA, 4 days/week in office Remote eligibility
- Employment
- Full-time Lead / Manager
About the job
About the role
We’re hiring a Lead Technical Recruiter to help hire exceptional engineers at Chime. In this role, you’ll work closely with engineering leaders and hiring teams to run thoughtful, high-quality searches and deliver a strong candidate experience from first conversation through close. You’ll own the full recruiting lifecycle—from sourcing through offer—and help ensure our hiring processes run smoothly and efficiently as we continue building the team.
Responsibilities
- Own full-cycle recruiting for technical roles from sourcing through offer acceptance
- Deliver a thoughtful and high-quality candidate experience throughout the hiring process
- Build strong technical talent pipelines through proactive sourcing and outreach
- Work closely with hiring teams to run structured, efficient interview processes
- Track pipeline health and recruiting metrics to ensure consistent progress across searches
- Partner cross-functionally with recruiting and People team members—including recruiting coordinators, sourcers, and people partners—to support smooth and effective hiring processes
- Identify opportunities to improve recruiting workflows and experiment with emerging tools, including AI-enabled recruiting technology
Qualifications
- 7+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience
- Experience recruiting for engineering or other technical roles
- Ability to own searches end-to-end including sourcing, screening, and closing
- Strong understanding of technical terminology, languages, and engineering stacks
- Experience sourcing and engaging technical talent through multiple channels
- Strong communication and candidate management skills
- Curiosity about emerging recruiting technologies, including experience experimenting with AI recruiting tools
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary offered for this role and level of experience: $130,000—$180,000 USD. Full-time employees may also be eligible for bonus(es), competitive equity, and benefits. Benefits include backup child, elder, and pet care, subsidized commuter benefits, comprehensive health, financial, and wellbeing benefits, generous vacation policy and company-wide paid days off, 1% of your time off to support local community organizations, annual wellness stipend, up to 22 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, and family planning reimbursement.
Work Policy
Our in-office work policy is designed to keep you connected - with four days a week in the office and Fridays from home for those near one of our offices, plus team and company-wide events depending on location. Whether you’re coming in regularly or are part of our fully remote program, you’ll stay engaged with your work and teammates.
About Chime
Chime is a financial technology company, not a bank. We believe that everyone can achieve financial progress. We empower our members to take control of their finances and work towards their goals. We're a team of problem solvers, dreamers, and builders with one shared obsession: our members.
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