Senior Recruiter, Contract

MongoDB MongoDB · Enterprise · New York, NY · People Team

Senior Recruiter role focused on FinOps, People, and Legal teams, requiring strategic guidance and tactical execution in a fast-paced tech environment. The role involves full-cycle recruiting, pipeline generation, candidate engagement, and data tracking using ATS and other tools. It emphasizes strong relationships with hiring managers and a high-touch candidate experience. The company, MongoDB, is described as a database platform for the AI era, but this role is not directly involved in AI/ML development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Act as a trusted advisor to hiring managers, partnering with them on everything from setting data-driven recruiting strategies and expectations up front, managing and driving efficient processes, and closing candidates
  2. Develop sourcing strategies to generate high quality pipelines, using a variety of innovative techniques from direct sourcing to social networking
  3. Engage with candidates throughout the entire process, from sourcing through to offer negotiations
  4. Leverage Greenhouse, Gem, and Tableau to track candidate pipeline progress and maintain consistently clean data for reporting
  5. Establish strong relationships with hiring teams, focusing on becoming a strategic talent partner rather than an “order taker”
  6. Deliver a consistently high-touch candidate experience, ensuring timely communication, clear expectations, and thoughtful preparation at each stage

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience
  • proven ability to manage multiple searches and stakeholders simultaneously
  • strong organization, time management, and attention to detail
  • strong communicator and relationship-builder
  • able to influence and partner with hiring managers, candidates, and talent ecosystem partners
  • comfortable using tools such as Google Workspace, LinkedIn Recruiter, Gem, and Greenhouse ATS

Nice to have

  • preferably within high growth, fast paced technology companies

What the JD emphasized

  • 6 month fixed term contract
  • hourly rate of $65/hr