Senior Manager of Recruiting

Join Quince as a Senior Manager of Recruiting, where you will lead and scale a team of recruiters, act as a strategic talent partner to senior leaders, and personally drive critical hiring. This high-impact role is based in Palo Alto and focuses on building out full organizations, teams, and functions, as well as establishing our brand presence. You will be responsible for defining our hiring strategy, improving interviewing operations, and using data to drive recruiting performance. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of recruiting experience, strong leadership judgment, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

• Lead and scale a team of recruiters, setting clear priorities, and raising the overall bar for recruiting craft.
• Act as a strategic partner to leadership, working closely with Palo Alto-based leaders to drive business priorities, workforce needs, and deliver against critical hiring goals.
• Own high-priority technical searches, personally driving select critical searches, including senior leadership, and business-critical roles where strong judgment and hands-on execution are required.
• The right candidate brings strong recruiting depth, excellent leadership judgment, and the ability to operate both strategically and hands-on in a high-growth, high-bar environment
• Proven success hiring for teams in high-growth, high-bar technology environments
• 8+ years of recruiting experience, including meaningful experience managing or leading recruiters and/or sourcers. Experience working with G&A, Tech and/or Product teams is ideal
• Strong understanding of recruiting fundamentals, including sourcing strategy, talent mapping, candidate assessment, interview design, funnel management, and closing
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with shifting priorities, high expectations, and a strong bias for action
• Exceptional communication, judgment, and executive presence, with the ability to build trust quickly with senior leaders and cross-functional partners
• 4+ years of managing and leading recruiting teams
• Experience coaching recruiters and sourcers, raising team standards, and developing stronger recruiting habits, judgment, and execution
• Demonstrated ability to act as a strategic talent partner to senior leaders, influencing hiring strategy, role design, prioritization, calibration, and decision-making
• Experience operating as a player-coach, with the ability to manage a team while personally owning and closing critical searches
• Track record of improving recruiting processes, interview operations, stakeholder alignment, and hiring quality
• Strong analytical orientation, with experience using recruiting data to diagnose funnel issues, improve recruiter performance, and drive better hiring outcomes
• Demonstrated success building and managing high-performing recruiting teams in a fast-paced, hybrid work model
• Experience scaling organizations from early-stage startup environments to late-stage, high-scale growth
• Experience utilizing advanced talent intelligence and market mapping to drive proactive sourcing strategies for niche technical roles
• Previous experience partnering with executive leadership to define and execute comprehensive talent strategies for rapid organizational growth