About the Team:
The Talent & Culture team designs and delivers the programs and experiences that support Morningstar employees throughout their entire time here. From first contact through onboarding and beyond, we shape how people find, join, and grow at Morningstar. Recruiting is where that work begins.
The Role:
Morningstar's technology teams build tools and infrastructure that help investors make better decisions. Bringing the right people into those teams is work that matters.
As a Technology Recruiter, you will manage full-cycle recruiting for roles across software engineering, data, cloud, cybersecurity, AI/ML, and products. You will work directly with technical hiring managers to understand what their teams need, build sourcing strategies grounded in market data, and guide candidates through a process that is clear, honest, and respectful from start to finish.
This role suits someone who takes recruiting seriously as a craft — someone who is genuinely curious about technology, comfortable working with data, and capable of earning credibility with both technical leaders and candidates.
Location: Chicago, IL | On-site 4 days/week
What You'll Do:
- Own the full recruiting lifecycle: intake, market research, sourcing, assessment, interview management, offer, and closing.
- Partner with engineering, data, product, and infrastructure leaders to understand team goals, technical requirements, and what success looks like for each search.
- Turn technical requirements into focused talent profiles, sourcing strategies, and market maps.
- Build candidate pipelines using LinkedIn Recruiter, talent databases, referrals, professional networks, and targeted outreach.
- Bring market intelligence to your hiring managers — pipeline data, competitive context, and clear recommendations to support better hiring decisions.
- Track funnel health using metrics like pipeline volume, stage conversion, and time in stage. Spot problems early and recommend adjustments.
- Give every candidate a clear, timely, and respectful experience throughout the process.
- Coordinate closely with Talent & Culture teammates to ensure a smooth handoff from offer acceptance through onboarding.
- Look for ways to improve how recruiting runs; processes, tools, sourcing approaches, and the experience for both candidates and hiring managers.
What You Bring:
Required
- 4+ years of recruiting experience, including meaningful exposure to technical or technology-related searches.
- Experience recruiting within at least one technical discipline: software engineering, data, cloud/infrastructure, cybersecurity, AI/ML, or product.
- Ability to learn technical concepts and translate them into effective search strategies.
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills, including the ability to offer candid recommendations to hiring managers.
- Comfort working with recruiting data and pipeline metrics to identify gaps and guide decisions.
Preferred
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- Experience with Workday or another enterprise ATS.
- Curiosity about how technology is evolving and how that shapes the talent market.
Why Morningstar:
At Morningstar, we invest in the people who do this work supporting your financial, personal, and family well-being. We aim to create a workplace where you can keep learning, stretching, and becoming.
We value how you think as much as where you're from. Ideas rise on merit, not volume. Decisions follow facts, not fashion.
Compensation and Benefits
At Morningstar we believe people are at their best when they are at their healthiest. That’s why we champion your wellness through a wide range of programs that support all stages of your personal and professional life. Here are some examples of the offerings we provide:
Financial Health
100% 401k match up to 6% of salary
Stock Ownership Potential
Company provided life insurance - 1x salary + commission
Physical Health
Comprehensive health benefits (medical/dental/vision) including potential premium discounts and company-provided HSA contributions (up to $500-$2,000 annually) for specific plans and coverages
Additional medical Wellness Incentives - up to $300-$600 annual
Company-provided long- and short-term disability insurance
Emotional Health
Trust-Based Time Off
6-week Paid Sabbatical Program
6-Week Paid Family Caregiving Leave
Competitive 8-24 Week Paid Parental Leave
Adoption Assistance
Leadership Coaching & Formal Mentorship Opportunities
Annual Flex Stipend - $1000 annually to cover personal education & well-being expenses
Tuition Reimbursement
Social Health
Charitable Matching Gifts program
Dollars for Doers volunteer program
Paid volunteering days
15+ Employee Resource & Affinity Groups
Total Cash Compensation Range
$98,125.00-143,925.00Inclusive of annual base salary and target incentive
Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to collaborate in-person each week as we've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis. In most of our locations, our hybrid work model is four days in-office each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you'll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.
001_MstarInc Morningstar Inc. Legal EntitySkills Required
- 4+ years of recruiting experience
- Meaningful experience with technical or technology-related recruiting searches
- Experience recruiting in software engineering, data, cloud or infrastructure, cybersecurity, AI/ML, or product
- Ability to learn technical concepts and translate them into effective search strategies
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills
- Ability to provide candid recommendations to hiring managers
- Comfort working with recruiting data and pipeline metrics
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Experience with Workday or another enterprise ATS
- Curiosity about evolving technology and its impact on the talent market
What the Team is Saying
Morningstar Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave provides at least 16 weeks for primary caregivers and up to 8 weeks for secondary caregivers, alongside a global minimum of six weeks of paid caregiving leave. These policies extend family support beyond parental leave alone.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible time off, paid holidays, and a paid sabbatical after every four years of service create meaningful time-away options. Company reporting notes that 1,223 employees took paid sabbaticals in 2025, indicating the program’s active use.
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Retirement Support — Employer retirement contributions or matching are offered with free access to Morningstar retirement-planning tools. This combination reinforces long-term savings and planning.
Morningstar Insights
What We Do
We are a global investment research and financial data company with 40-plus offices across North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. Our products and services are used daily by individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, retirement plan providers, and institutional investors. We provide data, research, and analysis across managed investment products, publicly listed companies, private capital markets, debt securities, and real-time global market data. The financial system can have real barriers—hidden information, friction that can slow decisions, and forces that can limit transparency and access. We work to remove them, bringing independent research, connected data, and investor-first tools to a system that needs more clarity. The people doing this work span research, technology, design, product, sales, and functional areas. We build many of our products in-house, so the work can connect directly to the tools investors use to make real financial decisions.
Why Work With Us
Morningstar’s missing is to empower investor success. We can only do that if our people feel empowered. That means finding people who think independently, bring a wide range of backgrounds with analytical rigor and genuine intellectual curiosity to the work.
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