Director of Technical Recruiting

Discord is hiring a Director of Technical Recruiting. You will lead the our Technical Recruiting function with an emphasis on helping us find top talent, strategize around best-practices for empowering diverse talent, Discord’s employment branding and how we're positioning ourselves globally, and our approach to talent intelligence (and the mapping of our strategy to Discord's needs for each market). Finally, you will be an advocate for an extraordinary candidate experience that both represents our unique culture and brand.

What you'll be doing

• Leading, mentoring, training, and developing a small, autonomous, high-performing technical recruiting team
• Defining,tracking and analyzing talent acquisition metrics to ensure thoughtful and data driven approach to hiring metrics and goals
• Partnering with senior engineering leaders and executives to drive progress and strategy and to understand current and future workforce planning needs
• Crafting and executing creative sourcing strategies and recruiting campaigns
• Working collaboratively with internal partners to create and evolve the Discord employer brand as a destination for world-class talent
• Empowering your team to act as strategic business partners to members of the engineering, product, analytics and design organizations
• Staying connected to and sharing knowledge about the competitive talent landscape, including trends in recruiting and compensation
• Ensuring that you and your team maintain a high level of data integrity with our applicant tracking and other systems
• Driving diversity initiatives for the company & execute on hiring goals. Execute on quarterly hiring goals with a focus on acquiring top diverse talent to meet our current and future hiring needs
• Partnering with the Recruiting team to iterate our programs including interview guides, interviewer training, candidate assessment/calibration, referrals, internships and outreach recruiting, etc.

What you should have

• At least 8 years of engineering recruiting experience within a tech startup, a mission-driven company, or an agency serving tech startups
• Proven success building and managing a high-performing team of recruiting professionals for at least 5 years
• A track record of success in building and leading highly effective TA strategy in high-growth geographically distributed tech organizations
• A commitment to, and demonstrated track record of delivering high-touch, world-class service to internal and external candidates, hiring managers, and employees
• Passion for progressive, innovative Diversity and Inclusion initiatives, and a proven track record of implementation
• Data-driven work ethos with extensive experience building and defining recruiting pipeline metrics and using data to debug problems
• Demonstrated experience using metrics and analytics to lead an anticipatory hiring model (eg. forecasting net and backfill hiring needs to ensure the org is resourced for the hiring needs)
• A deep understanding of the highly competitive and evolving (eg. remote work) talent markets
• Willingness to roll up sleeves, embracing a dynamic & high-growth environment
• An unyielding passion to provide the ultimate candidate experience
• Experience hiring for data scientists and machine learning, backend, frontend, full-stack, ML, tools and/or native engineers a plus

Bonus Points

• A passion for building community and an understanding of Discord’s mission and values
• The ability to express your emotions through the perfectly crafted GIF

Benefits and Perks - Eligible to Fulltime Employees

• Comprehensive medical insurance including Health, Dental and Vision (plus up to $20,000 for gender affirmation procedures)
• Mental health resources and quarterly wellness stipends
• 16+ paid holidays, 4 weeks of PTO + use-what-you-need sick days
• Paid parental leave (plus fertility, adoption and other family planning benefits)
• Generous stipends for headphones, your remote work setup, and lunch on a daily basis (while we’re all remote)
• Flexible long-term work options (remote and hybrid)
• Volunteer time off
• A diverse slate of Employee Resource Groups
• Plus commuter contributions and other perks for office-based employees

About Us

Discord is a voice, video and text app that helps friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests — from artists and activists, to study groups, sneakerheads, plant parents, and more. With 150 million monthly users across 19 million active communities, called servers, Discord has grown to become one of the most popular communications services in the world. Discord was built without selling ads or user data and instead, offers a premium subscription called Nitro that gives users special perks like higher quality streams and fun customizations.

We’re working toward an inclusive world where no one feels like an outsider, where genuine human connection is a click, text chat, or voice call away. A place where everyone can find belonging. Challenging? Heck yes. Rewarding? Double heck yes. It’s a mission that gives us the chance to positively impact millions of people all over the world. So if this strikes a chord with you, come build belonging with us!