Technical Recruiter

About Opendoor

Opendoor is working to make homeownership simpler and more flexible for people who want to buy and sell on their own terms. The company’s mission centers on helping homeowners build wealth, stability, and stronger communities through an end-to-end online experience that has already served thousands of customers and continues to expand.

The Opportunity

This opening is for a Technical Recruiter who will help build the recruiting function rather than simply operate within it. The role sits on a small People team that is intentionally designing recruiting workflows with AI embedded from the outset.

The person in this seat will lead full-cycle hiring for the company’s most technical teams, spanning product and platform, while also shaping what excellent technical recruiting looks like inside Opendoor.

Why This Role Stands Out

The position offers direct access to leadership, meaningful ownership of process design, and room to experiment. The expectation is that the recruiter will be deeply embedded in the technical areas they support and will earn trust through that depth.

Key Responsibilities

You will own end-to-end recruiting for technical positions and help create the systems, messaging, and operating rhythms that support hiring at scale.

Full-Cycle Technical Recruiting

• Manage searches from intake through offer acceptance for technical positions.
• Develop sourcing plans across multiple channels, including targeted outbound search, GitHub research, community participation, referral activation, and other creative talent channels.
• Lead substantive screening discussions that cover system design, ML fundamentals, and engineering trade-offs.
• Work closely with hiring managers to define openings and preserve a high hiring standard throughout the process.

Stakeholder Partnership

• Act as the main talent partner for highly technical and demanding hiring managers.
• Challenge role scope, hiring speed, talent bar, or market assumptions when needed, using data to support recommendations.
• Convert complex technical needs into compelling candidate messaging and sourcing approaches.
• Keep hiring managers informed with proactive pipeline communication so they always know the status of searches.

AI-Embedded Recruiting

• Use AI to improve sourcing, screening, outreach, and pipeline analysis as part of the everyday recruiting workflow.
• Create and document repeatable workflows that can be standardized and transferred to others.
• Spot opportunities where automation can add leverage and advocate for adopting it.

Function Building

• Build recruiting processes, hiring-manager guides, and interview frameworks from the ground up.
• Help maintain ATS quality, job description templates, outreach sequences, and reporting practices.
• Ensure recruiting connects smoothly with onboarding, leveling, and compensation processes.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of end-to-end technical recruiting experience at a high-growth technology company, with ownership of the process from start to finish.
• Demonstrated success hiring for software engineering and ML/AI or comparable technical roles, with a clear understanding of leveling and role expectations across seniority bands.
• Experience in a lean startup or similarly fast-moving environment where processes had to be built from scratch without compromising quality.
• Hands-on experience using AI tools in recruiting today, rather than merely planning to adopt them.
• Ability to participate in business reviews, handle difficult stakeholder conversations, and draft a strong job description within the same day.
• A habit of monitoring pipeline metrics independently, identifying drop-off points, and bringing actionable insights instead of only status updates.

Strong Differentiators

• Background hiring engineers, MLOps talent, or AI platform specialists.
• Experience setting up or auditing a recruiting function, including ATS configuration, process documentation, and interviewer training.
• Knowledge of technical assessment design such as take-home tasks, coding exercises, and system design scoring rubrics.
• Experience in fintech, marketplace, or consumer technology environments.

Additional Information

This is a full-time onsite position based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

No salary, stipend, number of openings, start date, or application deadline was provided in the source.