Principal Technical Recruiter

<p>With millions of diners, 70,000+ restaurant partners and 25+ years of experience, OpenTable, part of Booking Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: BKNG), is an industry leader with a passion for helping restaurants thrive. Our world-class technology empowers restaurants to focus on what matters most – their team, their guests, and their bottom line – while enabling diners to discover and book the perfect restaurant for every occasion.&nbsp;</p> <p>Every employee at OpenTable has a tangible impact on what we do and how we do it. You’ll also be part of a global team that includes and its portfolio of metasearch brands. Hospitality is all about taking care of others, and it defines our culture.</p> <p>As a Principal Technical Recruiter on our Recruiting team, you will play a critical strategic role in identifying, attracting, and hiring top-tier engineering and specialized technical talent to drive our company's growth. You will serve as a trusted advisor to senior executive leadership, leveraging recruitment analytics and market intelligence to shape our workforce strategy. You will lead high-impact hiring initiatives, design scalable talent acquisition frameworks, and elevate our technical recruitment bar across the organization. In this role, you will combine high-touch, executive-level candidate experiences with hands-on sourcing and complex offer negotiations.</p> <h4><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Partner directly with senior leadership, including Directors, VPs, SVPs, to design baseline hiring criteria, forecast workforce needs, and provide data-driven advisory on competitive market conditions.</li> <li>Execute advanced sourcing and market mapping strategies to build robust pipelines of passive, high-caliber talent across software engineering, infrastructure, data science, and research domains.</li> <li>Lead complex offer negotiations and construct competitive compensation packages while delivering a white-glove candidate experience from outreach to onboarding.</li> <li>Establish scalable hiring frameworks, standardized interview rubrics, and structured candidate evaluation processes across the broader engineering organization.</li> <li>Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives within the technical recruitment pipeline to ensure fair and comprehensive sourcing strategies.</li> <li>Upskill and mentor junior recruiters and sourcers, establishing best practices and raising the overall standard of technical talent acquisition across the team.</li> </ul> <h4><strong>Minimum Qualifications</strong></h4> <ul> <li>8+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, ideally in-house within high-growth or enterprise technology environments.</li> <li>Proven track record of advising and influencing senior executive stakeholders using market data, pass-through rates, and pipeline health metrics.</li> <li>Deep technical acumen with a strong functional understanding of software engineering, infrastructure, data science, or specialized research landscapes.</li> <li>Demonstrated expertise in navigating and executing complex, high-level offer negotiations and compensation structuring.</li> <li>Ability to work in a hybrid model, commuting to our San Francisco office 2 days per week.</li> </ul> <h4><strong>Preferred Qualifications</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Experience designing and standing up various hiring initiatives and inclusive sourcing programs within technical organizations.</li> <li>Proven experience establishing standardized interview rubrics and scalable talent assessment frameworks.</li> <li>Background in direct mentorship or formal coaching of talent acquisition team members and sourcers.</li> <li>Expertise in advanced recruitment analytics and building data dashboards to track talent acquisition performance.</li> </ul> <h4><strong>Benefits and Perks</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year</li> <li>Focus on mental health and well-being:</li> <ul> <li>Company-paid therapy ses