We are looking for a collaborative and motivated Senior Recruiter to join Temporal. You’ll be stepping into a high-impact position during a pivotal stage of our growth, with direct visibility across executive leadership, hiring managers, and key business initiatives. In this role, you will play a key role in identifying and attracting exceptional talent across engineering, go-to-market, and general operations functions. Working closely with hiring managers, People Operations, and leadership, you’ll develop and execute recruiting strategies that uphold our commitment to hiring with intentionality and excellence.
Your efforts will have a direct impact on Temporal’s scaling trajectory, ensuring we bring in people who share our mission and values and contribute to our culture of excellence and belonging.
What You’ll Do- Support hiring across our G&A and non-technical functions, including finance, operations, marketing, and sales, adjusting your approach to meet different team dynamics.
- Partner closely with hiring managers and teams to understand hiring needs and priorities across departments.
- Own full-cycle recruiting from sourcing through offer negotiation and closing in a fast paced and competitive talent market.
- Source high-quality, diverse talent through creative outreach, networking, and tools like HireEZ, and open-source communities.
- Manage and optimize recruiting workflows using our ATS (Ashby) to ensure a smooth, data-informed hiring process.
- Provide a world-class candidate experience that reflects Temporal’s values.
- Proactively identify and remove process bottlenecks, ensuring velocity without compromising quality.
- Support onboarding transitions in collaboration with People Operations.
- 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally with exposure to finance, operations, marketing, and sales roles.
- Proven success in a fast-paced environment at a high-growth startup or infrastructure /dev-tool company
- Demonstrated ability to source passive candidates and engage technical talent communities.
- Strong working knowledge of ATS (Ashby strongly preferred) and Sourcing platforms
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable interfacing with senior leadership.
- Meticulous attention to detail and organizational skills, able to juggle multiple searches without dropping the ball.
- Collaborative mindset with a passion for building diverse, values-aligned teams.
- A strong sense of urgency balanced with thoughtfulness and care in decision-making.
- Familiarity with open-source communities or experience supporting developer-centric products, but curiosity and willingness to learn go a long way
- The estimated pay range for this role is $108,000 - $178,500
- Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal’s equity plan.
- Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays
- 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision
- AD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance (Standard & Supplemental Available)
- Empower 401K Plan
- Additional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!
Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com. Additionally, Temporal offers perks to all international employees for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, home office setup, professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and access to the Calm app for mental wellness.
Travel
Temporal is a globally distributed, collaborative team that values opportunities for in-person connection. Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites, and other meaningful moments that bring us together.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience
- Experience supporting finance, operations, marketing, and sales recruiting
- Proven success recruiting in a fast-paced, high-growth startup or infrastructure/developer-tools company
- Experience sourcing passive candidates and engaging technical talent communities
- Strong working knowledge of applicant tracking systems and sourcing platforms
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including comfort interfacing with senior leadership
- Strong attention to detail and organizational skills while managing multiple searches
- Collaborative mindset and commitment to building diverse, values-aligned teams
- Strong sense of urgency balanced with thoughtful decision-making
- Experience with Ashby
- Familiarity with open-source communities or developer-centric products
Temporal Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Temporal Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Temporal Technologies.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as 100% employer-paid for medical, dental, and vision, with AD&D, short- and long-term disability, and life insurance included. Feedback suggests this breadth and cost coverage is a strong differentiator for a remote-first employer.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes unlimited PTO alongside 12 standard holidays and 2 floating holidays. Feedback suggests this structure supports rest and recharge across teams.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and remote-work support include a home office stipend, internet reimbursement, WFH meals, Calm app access, a lifestyle spending account, and learning/professional membership budgets. Feedback suggests these perks enhance overall total rewards beyond base pay.
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What We Do
Temporal develops and distributes the world's leading open source durable execution system. We make code fault tolerant, durable and simple. Innovative companies like Datadog, Glovo, Indeed, Netflix, Qualtrics, Remitly, Snap and Yum! Brands build their services and applications with Temporal to make them reliable to run, productive to enhance and easy to troubleshoot and repair. More than a decade in the making, Temporal is powered by veterans behind some of the industry's most loved systems technologies, programming frameworks and open source communities as well as investors like Amplify Partners, Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures.
