About The Role: 

Are you ready to help build the future of Cresta’s Technical Teams? Do you love shaping and building Talent Acquisition practices while achieving ambitious hiring goals? Cresta is hiring a Global Full Stack Technical Recruiter to help us attract, engage, and inspire future members of Cresta’s team. This role will focus heavily on building our Engineering pipeline to drive Cresta’s product roadmap and future innovation. You will drive the full life-cycle recruiting process while collaborating with the People team and hiring teams to build and improve our Talent Acquisition foundational practices and systems. You’ll work cross-functionally to build a diverse team of talented, driven people who accomplish amazing things together.

This role is based in the greater Toronto, Canada region and is a hybrid arrangement.  We are globally distributed and you must be willing to flex across multiple timezones partnering with hiring teams across Canada, California, Germany, Romania and Australia.

Responsibilities: 

• Drive global recruiting process for engineering and technical talent, inclusive of campus hiring up through highly experienced engineers
• Own the full cycle recruiting operation, including job promotion, sourcing, outreach, interview operations, and closing
• Deliver innovative recruitment strategies to attract diverse talent across geos
• Partner and cultivate strong relationships with key stakeholders, including the executive team and direct hiring managers
• Connect with hiring teams to understand talent profiles, share insights on the talent/market landscape, and inform sourcing strategies 
• Monitor and maintain the health of our pipelines, and share timely updates with internal stakeholders
• Ensure an exceptional candidate experience through effective communication and follow-up
• Achieve hiring goals within desired timeframes while maintaining high-quality outcomes 
• Continuously identify the opportunities to improve the end-to-end hiring process and execute the improvements with teams and within the system
• Develop and manage engineering event strategy to increase brand awareness and talent pipeline
• Maintain ATS database hygiene, including inbound application review, and provide regular pipeline updates
• Utilize our internal systems to deliver reporting and insights into recruitment metrics, pipeline health, and improve performance

Qualifications we value:

• 5+ years of experience managing full-lifecycle recruitment across various technical roles and experience levels
• Experience in hiring an elite team with a very high bar, and experience in negotiating and closing deals 
• Have a strong presence in the local tech talent community and bring talent insights related to the competitive landscape forward
• Thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment with the ability to prioritize multiple stakeholders while delivering against ambitious hiring goals
• Expertise in building partnerships with hiring managers and taking on a talent advisor role with the ability to influence decisions and outcomes
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with stakeholders and all levels of management
• Optimist and resourceful problem solver, with an ability to adjust strategy and actions in a fast-moving business
• You seek to understand and improve the efficacy of your work and talent processes by analyzing data and identifying and deploying improvements
• Experience using/managing ATS workflows and being vigilant about keeping a clean database.  Experience with Greenhouse is a bonus!
• Bachelor's degree and or equivalent years of experience

Perks & Benefits:

• We offer Cresta employees a variety of medical, dental, and vision plans, designed to fit you and your family’s needs
• Paid parental leave to support you and your family
• Monthly Health & Wellness allowance
• Work from home office stipend to help you succeed in a remote environment
• Lunch reimbursement for in-office employees 
• PTO: 3 weeks in Canada 

Conclusion: 

Compensation for this position includes a base salary, equity, and a variety of benefits. Actual base salaries will be based on candidate-specific factors, including experience, skillset, and location, and local minimum pay requirements as applicable. We are actively hiring for this role in the US and Canada. Your recruiter can provide further details.

We have noticed a rise in recruiting impersonations across the industry, where scammers attempt to access candidates' personal and financial information through fake interviews and offers. All Cresta recruiting email communications will always come from the @cresta.ai domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Cresta via other sources should be ignored.  If you are uncertain whether you have been contacted by an official Cresta employee, reach out to recruiting@cresta.ai

Cresta is on a mission to turn every customer conversation into a competitive advantage by unlocking the true potential of the contact center. Our platform combines the best of AI and human intelligence to help contact centers discover customer insights and behavioral best practices, automate conversations and inefficient processes, and empower every team member to work smarter and faster. Born from the prestigious Stanford AI lab, Cresta's co-founder and chairman is Sebastian Thrun, the genius behind Google X, Waymo, Udacity, and more. Our leadership also includes CEO, Ping Wu, the co-founder of Google Contact Center AI and Vertex AI platform, & co-founder, Tim Shi, an early member of Open AI.

We’ve assembled a world-class team of AI and ML experts, go-to-market leaders, and top-tier investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, Sequoia, and former AT&T CEO John Donovan. Our valued customers include brands like Intuit, Cox Communications, Hilton, and Carmax, and we’ve been recognized by Forbes and Bain Consulting as one of the top private AI companies in the world.

Join us on this thrilling journey to revolutionize the workforce with AI. The future of work is here, and it's at Cresta.

The Role

We’re looking for a strategic, credible, and highly execution-oriented Head of Global Talent Acquisition to build and scale Cresta’s global hiring engine. This leader will own talent acquisition strategy and outcomes across Technical, GTM, G&A, Executive, and Early Career hiring, while partnering closely with executive leadership and the Head of People.

This is a highly visible leadership role for someone who thrives in fast-moving, high-growth environments and knows how to balance speed, quality, efficiency, and long-term talent outcomes, and who is comfortable setting strategy while staying close to execution when needed.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and execute Cresta’s global Talent Acquisition strategy in partnership with People, Finance, and business leadership to support rapid growth across regions and functions.
• Partner closely with executives and senior leaders to shape hiring strategy, priorities, capacity modeling, and workforce planning.
• Build, scale, and lead a high-performing internal Talent Acquisition team, defining the right mix of in-house recruiters and external partners to support rapid growth, burst hiring needs, and global expansion.
• Reinforce a high-trust, high-accountability recruiting culture grounded in mentorship, ownership, data-driven decision-making, and continuous improvement.
• Partner closely with the Head of People on broader talent, workforce planning, and people initiatives.
• Support and lead senior and executive recruiting efforts in partnership with People leadership, including hands-on involvement for critical and hard-to-fill roles as needed.
• Design, track, and continuously refine TA metrics to drive hiring efficiency, quality, predictability, and scale.
• Own and continuously improve the end-to-end candidate experience, from intake calibration and interview design through offer, closing, and post-process feedback loops.
• Champion an equitable, inclusive, and consistent candidate experience across all roles, regions, and stages of growth.
• Set the standard for proactive, creative sourcing and passive candidate engagement, ensuring teams build durable pipelines rather than relying on reactive hiring.
• Drive employer brand and talent marketing programs across social, events, and community engagement in partnership with Marketing and People teams.
• Refine and scale Cresta’s campus and early career strategy, partnering with recruiters to build internship and new graduate pipelines globally.
• Lead the strategy for Cresta’s Talent Acquisition technology ecosystem, including Greenhouse, LinkedIn, Juicebox, CoderPad, and related tools, while identifying opportunities for future improvements and optimization.

What We’re Looking For

• 10+ years of progressive Talent Acquisition experience, including senior leadership roles in high-growth technology companies.
• Proven ability to scale recruiting organizations in fast-paced, global environments.
• Strong executive presence with the ability to influence, challenge, and partner with senior leaders.
• Deep expertise in recruiting operations, metrics, and TA technology, with a demonstrated ability to translate data into business decisions.
• Experience leading executive-level and critical senior hires.
• Demonstrated success in building employer brands and early-career programs.
• Passion for developing people, building durable teams, and delivering results.
• A builder mindset, balancing strategic leadership with hands-on execution to move work forward in a high-growth environment.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity, prioritizing ruthlessly, and evolving systems as the business scales.

Perks & Benefits:

• Medical, dental, and vision plans designed to support you and your family
• Generous paid parental leave 
• Monthly Health & Wellness allowance
• Work-from-home office stipend
• Lunch reimbursement for in-office employees
• Flexible PTO
  

Compensation at Cresta:

Cresta’s approach to compensation is simple: recognize impact, reward excellence, and invest in our people. We offer competitive, location-based pay that reflects the market and what each individual brings to the table.

The posted base salary range represents what we expect to pay for this role in a given location. Final offers are shaped by factors like experience, skills, education, and geography. In addition to base pay, total compensation includes equity and a comprehensive benefits package for you and your family.

OTE Range: $220,000 - $300,000 + Equity

We have noticed a rise in recruiting impersonations across the industry, where scammers attempt to access candidates' personal and financial information through fake interviews and offers. All Cresta recruiting email communications will always come from the @cresta.ai domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Cresta via other sources should be ignored.  If you are uncertain whether you have been contacted by an official Cresta employee, reach out to recruiting@cresta.ai