Assistant Vice President, Technical Recruiter

PJT Partners is a global advisory-focused investment bank. Our team of senior professionals delivers a wide array of strategic advisory, shareholder advisory, restructuring and special situations and private fund advisory and placement services to corporations, financial sponsors, institutional investors and governments around the world. We offer a unique portfolio of advisory services designed to help our clients achieve their strategic objectives.

We also provide, through PJT Park Hill, private fund advisory and fundraising services for alternative investment managers, including private equity funds, real estate funds and hedge funds. From the beginning, PJT Partners has firmly believed that having the best people is key to building an enduring franchise. Our perspective was, and remains, that a great team brings in both top tier clients and appeals to a wide-range of diverse, talented colleagues.

Fostering an inclusive culture, which welcomes differing perspectives and beliefs, enables us to provide the best advice and insights to our clients. To learn more about PJT Partners, please visit our website at

We are hiring an experienced Technical Recruiter to lead full-lifecycle recruiting for PJT's Technology function globally. This is a great opportunity for a seasoned recruiting professional to partner directly with senior Technology leadership on critical hires across engineering, infrastructure, application, data and information security. PJT runs on a public cloud, with secure networking. We have a mostly SaaS-based application strategy. AI is a growing part of our product and technology strategy.

• Own full-lifecycle recruiting for Technology hires across the firm, partnering directly with Technology leadership and hiring managers to build and execute strategic hiring plans with enough fluency in our technology environment to act as a credible partner rather than a process manager;
• Source and engage technical talent through creative means, including Linked In Recruiter, Boolean search strings, and technology specific networks and communities, for open and pipeline roles across engineering, infrastructure, software development, data, artificial intelligence, operations and information security;
• Partner with hiring managers to define role requirements and build a structured screening approach, and carry out initial technical assessments so that candidates presented to Technology leaders are well matched to the role;
• Act as a trusted advisor to Technology hiring managers, providing market intelligence on the technical talent landscape, compensation benchmarks and competitive positioning;
• Lead intake and business briefings with hiring managers, and drive candidate feedback and debrief sessions throughout the lifecycle of the hiring process;
• Draft and review technical job descriptions for use on the intranet and external sites, partnering with hiring managers to accurately represent role scope and required qualifications;
• Build and maintain a strong pipeline of technical candidates, developing long-term relationships to support both immediate openings and future talent needs;
• Partner with the compensation team to structure competitive, market aligned offer packages for technical hires;
• Maintain recruiting materials, such as candidate scorecards, new hire offer packets and onboarding documents;
• Maintain applicant tracking system processes, collect interview feedback and ensure accurate data on candidates;
• Remain current on technology recruiting trends, compensation benchmarks and competitive intelligence for cloud, artificial intelligence, software engineering, data, support, operations and cybersecurity talent markets, through ongoing market research and development of an external network.

PJTP Partners seeks to hire a dynamic individual who is highly motivated, intelligent and a proven self-starter. The successful candidate should have excellent communication skills, a demonstrated ability to write effectively and a positive attitude. In addition, qualified candidates will possess the following:

• Bachelor’s Degree or international equivalent;
• 8+ years of full-lifecycle recruiting experience, with a significant focus on technical recruiting, ideally within an investment bank, financial services firm or executive search firm;
• Hands-on experience recruiting for cloud, security or data roles, including screening candidates for technical depth and building screening criteria in partnership with hiring…