Sr. Technical Recruiter | Acorns

Employment Type: Full-Time Location Type: Remote Salary: [Not Specified]

Position Overview

At Acorns, our mission is to look after the financial best interests of the up-and-coming, beginning with the empowering, proud step of micro-investing. We are seeking a Sr. Technical Recruiter to help us grow the teams building the future of financial wellness for both Acorns and GoHenry. You will lead full-cycle recruiting efforts for Engineering, Data, and Analytics roles, while building scalable hiring systems to find and support top technical talent. This role involves close partnership with hiring managers and cross-functional leaders to enhance our sourcing, evaluation, and hiring processes.

About Acorns

Acorns is a remote-first organization, offering the flexibility to work remotely while providing optional access to office space in Irvine, CA.

Our mission is driven by our values:

• Lead With Heart: With compassion, integrity, and tenacity, inspire yourself and others to move past all previous thresholds of possibility.
• Make Bold Decisions: Be optimistic, adventurous, and courageous. Leap fearlessly into the future.
• Always Build Trust: Say what you mean, mean what you say, and do what you say you’re going to do.
• Never Stop Growing: Change IS the constant. Stay hungry and curious. Be relentless in the pursuit of progress.
• Find a way: Never settle, no excuses, nothing is impossible. Just make it happen.

Responsibilities

• Partner deeply with Engineering, Data, Analytics, and Product leadership to define and execute on short- and long-term hiring strategies.
• Own full-cycle recruiting for technical roles, ensuring a seamless, values-aligned candidate experience from outreach to offer.
• Develop a deep understanding of roles across Core Engineering, QA, SDET, Tech Ops, Information Security, Product Management, and Data & Analytics for both Acorns and GoHenry.
• Proactively source and maintain pipelines of uniquely talented, diverse candidates using creative and targeted outreach strategies.
• Streamline and enhance technical recruiting operations at GoHenry, including agency management, interview structure, and coding assessments to drive efficiency and cost containment.
• Implement robust reporting and analytics to track recruiting performance and inform continuous improvement.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with HR and hiring teams to build a strong employer brand and create scalable hiring programs.
• Support key programs, including offshore recruiting partnerships and Acorns’ Engineering Internship Program, contributing to interview design, SOPs, and vendor oversight.

Requirements

• 6+ years of technical recruiting experience in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
• Deep familiarity with hiring software engineers, security engineers, designers, and product managers.
• Insight into ML, AI, and LLM-related technical trends and talent landscapes.
• Proven track record of identifying and closing high-caliber talent across engineering disciplines.
• Strong operational rigor with a proactive, solution-oriented mindset.
• Excellent relationship-building skills with the ability to partner at all levels of an organization.
• Hunger to deliver game-changing products.
• Exceptional drive and precision.

Application Instructions

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