Senior Talent Partner, PRE

Who We Are

Pindrop is redefining trust in the digital age. Our patented voice, and video authentication, fraud detection, and deepfake detection technologies protect some of the world’s largest banks, insurers, retailers, and healthcare leaders. As AI-driven threats evolve in the form of synthetic voices, deepfakes, face swapping and more, our solutions stay ahead, helping ensure that the real human and the right human are recognized.

Pindrop is trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises to secure voice interactions, and with $100M ARR we’re entering our next phase of innovation and growth, backed by world-class investors including Andreessen Horowitz, IVP, and CapitalG.

What you’ll do 

As the Senior Talent Partner, Product, Research and Engineering, (PRE)  you will own full-cycle recruiting for technical and product-facing roles across Engineering, Product Management, Product Design, Data, Security, and Research. You’ll serve as a strategic partner to technical leaders, including up to C-Level, shaping hiring strategy, elevating candidate experience, and helping us build a diverse, high-performing Product, Research & Engineering organization.

• Own end-to-end recruiting for PRE roles (e.g., Software Engineers, Engineering Leadership, Product Managers, Product Designers, Data Scientists, Security Engineers, Applied Researchers), from intake through offer acceptance.
• Lead a high-touch, high-caliber recruitment process that combines clear, proactive communication with a technically rigorous evaluation, ensuring an exceptional candidate experience from start to finish.
• Run intake/kickoff meetings to define technical success profiles, required competencies, interview panel design, leveling, and timelines.
• Build and execute strategic sourcing strategies (outbound, referrals, networks, technical communities, events, tools) to attract top technical talent in competitive markets.
• Create and maintain diverse candidate pipelines for priority and recurring roles, including proactive talent pooling for future engineering and product needs.
• Partner closely with hiring managers, Engineering and Product leaders, People Partners, and cross-functional stakeholders as a trusted advisor on talent market insights, trade-offs, and hiring decisions.
• Facilitate structured, competency-based and skills-based interviews and debriefs, ensuring fair, consistent, and evidence-driven hiring decisions.
• Be data-obsessed. Maintain absolute accuracy and completeness in Greenhouse, and use funnel metrics to identify bottlenecks, drive measurable improvements, and clearly report progress.
• Serve as a true partner to Finance and People Operations, ensuring headcount planning, leveling alignment, offer approvals, and compensation calibration are executed with precision and total responsibility
• Bring a strong innovation mindset and applied AI expertise to continuously elevate recruiting processes, streamline workflows, and improve assessments, interview training, tools, and candidate communications in support of a scalable, high-performance talent engine.

Who you are

• You are a driver of company success. You understand that bringing in the right talent determines the trajectory of the business, and you refuse to settle for mediocrity. You hold a high bar and hire accordingly.
• You are an innovator in highly competitive markets. You know how to identify, attract, and close niche, hard-to-find technical talent, and you are relentless in pursuing the highest caliber candidates.
• You are a relationship-driven recruiter who builds trust quickly with technical hiring managers and top-tier candidates.
• You are intellectually curious and comfortable learning complex technical domains in order to assess, challenge, and advise credibly.
• You are resilient in the face of competing priorities, shifting roadmaps, and evolving technical requirements.
• You are data-driven and comfortable using metrics to diagnose bottlenecks, inform decisions, and continuously improve performance.
• You are resourceful and proactive, constantly testing new sourcing strategies across technical communities and networks.
• You take accountability, follow through on commitments, and consistently deliver high-quality results.
• You are adaptable when priorities shift, while maintaining a long-term view of technical talent strategy.

Your skill-set

Must-haves:

• 7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with at least 4+ years focused on Product, Engineering, Research, Data, or other highly technical roles. You understand that talent quality directly determines company trajectory.
• Experience recruiting in a high-growth SaaS or technology environment, ideally with remote or distributed teams, where speed and precisio