Senior Technical Recruiter, Security

Harvey Harvey · AI Frontier · San Francisco, CA · Recruiting

Recruiting role focused on building out the security organization for an AI company. This involves partnering with security leadership, building talent pipelines, developing sourcing strategies, advising on market dynamics, and designing interview processes. The role requires extensive experience in full-cycle recruiting, specifically within the security domain at fast-growing tech or AI companies.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partner closely with security leadership to deeply understand team structure, role requirements, and the technical nuances that differentiate strong security candidates
  2. Build and own a high-quality pipeline of security talent across disciplines — application security, infrastructure security, detection and response, governance, risk, compliance, and security engineering
  3. Develop sourcing strategies specific to the security market, including community engagement, conference presence (e.g. Black Hat, DEF CON, BSides), and targeted outreach to passive candidates
  4. Advise hiring managers on security talent market dynamics, compensation benchmarks, and how to position Harvey competitively against other high-growth AI and tech companies
  5. Design and refine security-specific interview processes that are rigorous, structured, and candidate-respecting

Skills

Required

  • 7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience
  • 3–4 years focused on security roles (AppSec, infrastructure security, detection and response, GRC, or security engineering)
  • Deep familiarity with the security talent market
  • Proven track record closing security hires at a fast-growing tech or AI company
  • Strong ability to build trusted relationships with technical hiring managers
  • Comfort working in ambiguity and building process from scratch
  • Low ego, high ownership
  • Fluency in data and metrics
  • Genuine curiosity about the security space

What the JD emphasized

  • security roles
  • security talent market
  • closing security hires
  • security leadership
  • security talent market dynamics
  • security-specific interview processes
  • security hiring
  • security roles
  • security talent market
  • security hires
  • security talent
  • security space