Location: San Francisco
Type: Full-time
The role
Daytona is expanding its engineering organization and ramping up US and EU hiring very quickly: team leads, product managers, and senior engineers. You will own recruiting for these roles end to end, in direct partnership with the CEO, CTO, and Head of Finance.
This is two jobs in one. First, you recruit: full-cycle ownership of searches for some of the rarest profiles in systems engineering. Second, you run point on the broader machine: managing our external search partners alongside your own pipeline and keeping the whole thing fast, coordinated, and accountable. Your process becomes how Daytona hires.
What You'll Do
- Own full-cycle recruiting for open roles: sourcing, screening, interview process, references, and close for team leads, product managers, and senior engineers
- Manage our external search partners alongside your own pipeline: calibrate them on the profiles, run pipeline reviews, dedupe candidates, track funnel metrics, and hold partners accountable for slate quality and pace
- Own recruiting operations: ATS and tooling, structured interview loops, scorecards and rubrics, funnel reporting, and offer processes
- Partner with the founders and hiring managers on role definition, compensation benchmarking with finance, offer strategy, and closing
- Tell Daytona's story: turn hard systems problems and a fast-growing business into narratives that convert senior, passive candidates
- Own candidate experience end to end: fast, honest, high-signal — every candidate should leave the process wanting to work here
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years recruiting technical talent, including time in-house at a high-growth startup; agency experience on top of that is a plus, not a substitute
- A track record closing senior and staff-level systems, infrastructure, or ML engineers — searches where the qualified pool is small, senior, and not looking
- Real sourcing craft: creative outbound, community and referral channels, and the persistence to build pipelines nobody hands you
- Experience managing external agencies or retained search firms — and holding them to a bar
- A process builder: you have set up ATS workflows, structured interviews, and recruiting metrics, not just worked inside them
- High ownership: comfort with ambiguity and speed, and you own outcomes end to end; onsite in San Francisco