We’re seeking a Manager, Technology Recruiting to lead a high-performing team responsible for driving business-critical hiring across MongoDB's technical functions, including collaboration with multiple C-suite and senior executives. In this role, you will elevate the technology recruiting organization from an executional capacity into a strategic business partner by implementing best-in-class hiring practices and fostering an enterprise mindset rooted in alignment, innovation, and operational excellence, during our ongoing scaling phase.
The ideal candidate will have a strong ability to zoom in, to fine-tune the details of the recruiting process to ensure top-tier execution, and zoom out to provide insights and strategic guidance to senior business leaders. You will use data, analytics, and forecasting to inform hiring strategies, anticipate challenges, mitigate risks, and ensure that MongoDB is positioned to meet ambitious hiring goals as we grow. Furthermore, a leadership mindset is essential: you will guide and inspire a talented team of individual contributors, cultivating personal and team development, business alignment, and results.
This is a key leadership role that demands curiosity, ingenuity, operational excellence, and the ability to influence key stakeholders across the company. If you are driven to make an impact, design scalable, durable, and adaptable recruiting strategies, and empower MongoDB to attract top-tier talent as we seize a massive market opportunity, this is the role for you.
In this role, you will
- Strategically Guide Tech Recruiting: Partner closely with key stakeholders in senior leadership and C-suite roles to synchronize talent acquisition strategies with broader business priorities. Build and evolve a framework that positions tech recruiting as a proactive business partner
- Drive Operational Excellence: Refine, optimize and enable recruiting systems and workflows to ensure highly efficient execution. Empower your team to deliver measurable outcomes through best practices, streamlined processes, and innovative tools that drive scalability
- Coach, Develop, and Lead Your Team: Provide intentional leadership to your group of high-performing recruiters. Serve as a mentor and guide, instilling confidence, focus, and consistency while helping your team grow their skills and impact
- Collaborate Across the Business: Work with leaders across MongoDB to anticipate hiring needs, identify obstacles, and ensure alignment among priorities, elevating recruiting’s ability to serve as a true enterprise-level function
- Leverage Data to Inform Strategy: Lead with analytics by interpreting deep data insights to identify trends, inform decision-making, and proactively manage risk. Advocate for accurate data integrity as you provide hiring updates, forecasts, and recommendations to executive stakeholders
- Implement Innovative Solutions: Embrace cutting-edge recruiting tools, workflows, and AI-enabled strategies to optimize sourcing, talent pipelining, and engagement, keeping MongoDB competitive in a rapidly evolving talent landscape
- Align with Long-Term Vision: Bring a builder’s mentality to scale MongoDB's tech recruiting function while maintaining agility during periods of high growth and organizational change
Our ideal candidate will have
- Leadership Experience: 10+ years of progressive recruiting experience, with 4+ years managing teams in fast-paced, high-growth technology environments. Experience recruiting technical talent at scale is required
- Strategic Influence: A demonstrated ability to engage and influence senior leaders, framing recruiting strategies in alignment with business goals and decision-making
- Executive Presence: A confident communication style and ability to deliver thoughtful, concise perspectives on hiring progress, risks, and recommendations to executive teams
- Operational Excellence: Success in developing and implementing scalable processes that prioritize both efficiency and a strong candidate experience while empowering recruiters
- Data-Driven Mindset: Exceptional fluency in interpreting analytics to inform hiring strategies, forecast challenges, and deliver insights to stakeholders in actionable formats
- Global Acumen: Experience working with international teams and navigating recruitment in diverse hiring markets
- Adaptable Leadership: Ability to lead through ambiguity and organizational changes while maintaining momentum and steady performance across your team
- Builder Mentality: A hands-on approach to architecting and optimizing recruiting systems and workflows in dynamic and rapidly evolving environments
About MongoDB
MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the database for the AI era, enabling innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified database platform, the most widely available, globally distributed database on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
With offices worldwide and over 60,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.
Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB.
To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys.Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!
MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.
MongoDB, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
REQ ID: 1273423296
MongoDB’s base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB’s total compensation and benefits package. Other benefits for eligible employees may include: equity, participation in the employee stock purchase program, flexible paid time off, 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, 401(k) plan, mental health counseling, access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage, and health benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.
MongoDB’s base salary range for this role in the U.S. is:
$92,000—$182,000 USD