# Lead Technical Recruiter at OpenTable

> United States · Staff · Other · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Aopentable%3A8817783002 (read 2026-11-07).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [OpenTable](https://alderhq.app/companies/opentable)
- Location text: San Francisco, CA; San Francisco Office
- Where it can be done from (inferred): United States (evidence: "Location: San Francisco, CA; San Francisco Office")
- Posted: 2026-10-07 (30 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-02 · last verified: 2026-11-04
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/opentable/jobs/8817783002

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: not posted
- Market band for similar posted roles (SF Bay Area, n 789): p25 $177k, median $210k, p75 $250k
- H-1B filings at this company for similar roles, FY26: 1 ([US DOL OFLC LCA disclosure data](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/performance))

## Description (the employer's text)

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.

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.

As a Lead 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.

### Responsibilities

- 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.
- 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.
- Lead complex offer negotiations and construct competitive compensation packages while delivering a white-glove candidate experience from outreach to onboarding.
- Establish scalable hiring frameworks, standardized interview rubrics, and structured candidate evaluation processes across the broader engineering organization.
- Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives within the technical recruitment pipeline to ensure fair and comprehensive sourcing strategies.
- Upskill and mentor junior recruiters and sourcers, establishing best practices and raising the overall standard of technical talent acquisition across the team.
### Minimum Qualifications

- 8+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, ideally in-house within high-growth or enterprise technology environments.
- Proven track record of advising and influencing senior executive stakeholders using market data, pass-through rates, and pipeline health metrics.
- Deep technical acumen with a strong functional understanding of software engineering, infrastructure, data science, or specialized research landscapes.
- Demonstrated expertise in navigating and executing complex, high-level offer negotiations and compensation structuring.
- Ability to work in a hybrid model, commuting to our San Francisco office 2 days per week.
### Preferred Qualifications

- Experience designing and standing up various hiring initiatives and inclusive sourcing programs within technical organizations.
- Proven experience establishing standardized interview rubrics and scalable talent assessment frameworks.
- Background in direct mentorship or formal coaching of talent acquisition team members and sourcers.
- Expertise in advanced recruitment analytics and building data dashboards to track talent acquisition performance.
### Benefits and Perks

- Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
- Focus on mental health and well-being:
- Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
- Company-paid subscription to Headspace
- Annual company-wide week off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)
- Paid parental leave
- Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
- Paid volunteer time
- Focus on your career growth:
- Development Dollars
- Leadership development
- Access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings

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