Senior Technical Recruiter II

Dive in and do the best work of your career rney alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you'll find your place here. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world.

Digital Ocean is on a mission to simplify cloud computing so builders, developers, and AI-native enterprises can change the world. To support our next phase of global expansion and platform evolution, we are looking for a Senior Technical Recruiter—a tech-savvy, program-minded talent partner who combines elite full-lifecycle execution with robust project management, consultative influence, and deep domain fluency.

In this role, you will do far more than fill requisitions: you will operate as a strategic advisor to engineering and executive leadership, programmatically driving talent initiatives across complex technical ecosystems (Cloud, Infrastructure, AI/Inference, and Platform Safety).

• Operate as a Consultative Talent Advisor:
  Partner directly with VPs, Engineering Directors, and HRBPs to map talent strategies directly to product roadmaps, business OKRs, and workforce planning goals.
• End-to-End Search Orchestration:
  Manage high-impact, mission-critical technical pipelines (averaging 15+ active complex requisitions) from initial intake/kickoff and market alignment to offer structuring and executive closing.
• Stakeholder Management:
  Influence, guide, and calibrate hiring managers through market reality, compensation insights, and candidate selection dynamics.

• Deep Domain Fluency:
  Speak the language of modern engineering teams. Confidently engage top-tier talent across AI/ML, cloud infrastructure, containerization, customer identity, and enterprise software platforms.
• Multi-Channel Talent Programmatic Sourcing:
  Leverage advanced AI sourcing tools, Git Hub, Stack Overflow, open-source communities, and targeted networking to surface and engage passive, highly specialized engineering talent.

• Data-Driven Program Management:
  Treat your hiring funnel like a managed pipeline. Track, analyze, and communicate hiring metrics, conversion rates, and SLA risks to leadership to continuously optimize process velocity.
• Market & Competitive Intelligence:
  Track real-time labor market trends, tech stack shifts, local global compliance/legislation, and compensation movements to advise leaders on competitive positioning.
• Process Modernization & Scale:
  Identify operational friction in the candidate loop, proposing and executing workflow improvements across our ATS (Greenhouse), talent tech stack, and interviewer calibration programs.

• Relationship & Communication Mastery:
  Exceptional interpersonal presence, executive communication skills, and high emotional intelligence. Proven ability to build immediate trust with VP-level stakeholders and navigate complex candidate negotiations.
• Programmatic & Organizational Rigor:
  Strong project management discipline—able to balance multiple high-volume hiring initiatives, cross-functional dependencies, and candidate workflows without losing speed or quality.
• Tech-Savvy Expertise: A genuine curiosity and working knowledge of modern cloud infrastructure, SaaS, and AI development workflows (e.g., K8s, Go, Python, agent frameworks, microservices).
• Closing & Structuring Agility:
  Deep understanding of modern compensation…