At Code and Theory, our Talent Acquisition team is a strategic, resourceful collective of recruiters dedicated to finding the right person for each role. We are not salespeople, but thoughtful matchmakers translating hiring manager needs into actionable job specs, and surfacing the ideal candidates. We partner with hiring managers and teams to understand their projects and business needs, and hire accordingly.
We are looking for a Senior Recruiter to join our team. You'll report to the Director of Talent Acquisition and you'll bring strong Technology and Engineering hiring experience, a solid existing network, and experience successfully filling difficult to hire positions.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Manage full-cycle recruitment for technical and engineering roles, from intake and sourcing through offer negotiation and close
- Partner with hiring managers to define candidate profiles, hiring strategy, and interview processes aligned to business needs
- Build and maintain strong pipelines across engineering, AI/ML, DevOps, QA, cloud, mobile, and emerging technology domains
- Source and engage high-caliber technical talent through direct outreach, networking, referrals, and creative sourcing strategies
- Deliver a high-touch candidate experience while guiding interview teams through efficient and well-calibrated hiring decisions
- Maintain accurate pipeline data in Greenhouse and contribute to recruiting process improvements and operational excellence
- Bring market insights, talent intelligence, and competitive hiring knowledge into recruiting conversations and hiring strategy
WHAT YOU'LL NEED
- Significant experience recruiting technical talent in fast-paced agency, startup, product, or consulting environments
- Experience hiring across software engineering, AI/ML, DevOps, cloud, QA, mobile, and related technology disciplines
- Strong sourcing, market mapping, and candidate engagement skills, particularly for difficult-to-fill technical roles
- Proven success closing senior and leadership-level technical hires
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, and negotiation skills
- Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple searches and shifting priorities simultaneously
- Collaborative, proactive, and solution-oriented mindset
- Experience with Greenhouse or similar ATS platforms
- Passion for building inclusive teams and equitable hiring processes
- Ability to work East Coast hours
- Comfort leveraging AI-enabled sourcing, research, and recruiting workflows to improve efficiency and candidate engagement
ABOUT US
Born in 2001, Code and Theory is a digital-first creative agency that sits at the center of creativity and technology. We pride ourselves on not only solving consumer and business problems, but also helping to establish new capabilities for our clients. With a global client roster of Fortune 100s and start-ups alike, we crave the hardest problems to solve. We have teams distributed across North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. The Code and Theory global network of agencies is growing and includes Kettle, Instrument, Left Field Labs, Create Group, Current, and TrueLogic.
Striving never to be pigeonholed, we work across every major category: from tech to CPG, financial services to travel & hospitality, government and education to media and publishing. We value the collaboration with our client partners, including but not limited to Adidas, Amazon, Con Edison, Diageo, EY, J.P. Morgan Chase, Lenovo, Marriott, Mars, Microsoft, Thomson Reuters, and TikTok.
The Code and Theory network is comprised of nearly 2,000 people with 50% engineers and 50% creative talent. We’re always on the lookout for smart, driven, and forward-thinking people to join our team.
The base compensation range for this role is $85,000 – $120,000 and spans multiple levels. We're open to hiring at the level that best matches the right candidate's experience. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, budget, and location.
Skills Required
- Significant experience recruiting technical talent in fast-paced agency, startup, product, or consulting environments
- Experience hiring across software engineering, AI/ML, DevOps, cloud, QA, mobile, and related technology disciplines
- Strong sourcing, market mapping, and candidate engagement skills for difficult-to-fill technical roles
- Proven success closing senior and leadership-level technical hires
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, and negotiation skills
- Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple searches
- Experience with Greenhouse or similar ATS platforms
- Comfort leveraging AI-enabled sourcing and recruiting workflows
Code and Theory Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Code and Theory and has not been reviewed or approved by Code and Theory.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off policies include an “unlimited”/flexible PTO approach with paid holidays/sick time and seasonal early-close Fridays, offering notable flexibility. These options provide additional downtime beyond standard accrual models.
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Healthcare Strength — Core medical, dental, and vision coverage is part of the standard package, with employer-verified health plan information cited as current. Life and disability insurance further reinforce foundational coverage.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with employer match is included in the package, supporting long-term savings. Candidates are encouraged to confirm the match formula during the offer stage.
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What We Do
Code and Theory is a strategically driven, digital-first creative agency that lives at the intersection of creativity and technology. We solve consumer and business problems across the entire customer journey that flex to meet the ever-changing needs of consumer expectations. We put the user, their behaviors and needs, at the center of everything we do — from our proprietary research methodologies, to product development processes, to how we create brand, channel and messaging strategies. Our goal is simple: to solve our clients business problems. We bring big ideas to life by looking holistically at brand ecosystems where digital plays a prominent role in driving the consumer from first-touch through to conversion to relationship deepening over time. We identify gaps in the consumer journey and opportunities in culture that require products, services or communications to fill. We work across categories, ranging as far and wide as health care (Pfizer, Sanofi, Reach MD, Bioreference Laboratories) to financial services (JP Morgan Chase, Prudential, Morgan Stanley, First Data) to cpg (Mars, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson) to technology companies (Facebook, Xerox, Samsung, Comcast) to culture brands (adidas, H&M). And because our DNA is in publishing — we’ve embedded in over 135 newsrooms in the past decade — we bring unique expertise in understanding how content is created, distributed and optimized, including our work with CNN, NBC News, NBC Sports, and Bustle Digital Group. At Code and Theory, we strive to only be limited by our own ambition and creativity. We believe in pushing our creativity beyond the easy and obvious answers in order to deliver the solutions that are right for our clients, their businesses, and their consumers.
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