Sr. Talent Acquisition Partner - Technology

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As a Sr. Talent Acquisition Partner, you will be responsible for identifying, attracting, and hiring top-tier technical talent for Slate's Technology organization to support our company's growth and innovation. You will serve as a true talent advisor — one who brings deep fluency in modern software development disciplines, from frontend and backend engineering to UX/UI design — enabling you to engage authentically with both candidates and hiring teams at a technical level.

You will partner closely with Engineering and Product leadership to understand staffing demand signals from production environments and translate them into hiring strategies that move with urgency and precision. Beyond sourcing and selection, you will own the accountability framework for interview teams, driving structured, consistent evaluation processes that keep quality high and time-to-fill aligned with the pace of business need.

Conduct deep-dive intake meetings with hiring managers across Engineering, Product, and Design to align on role requirements, technical scope, team context, and hiring timelines, going beyond job descriptions to understand the actual architecture, tools, and problems the candidate will be hired to solve. Demonstrate working knowledge of the full software development lifecycle (SDLC), including frontend frameworks (React, Type Script, Next.js), backend systems (Node.js,

Python, Java, REST/GraphQL APIs), cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP), and UX/UI design principles, enabling you to evaluate candidate profiles with genuine technical discernment. Partner with Engineering leads to understand production demands, sprint cadences, and team capacity gaps, using that context to establish hiring timelines that reflect real‑world urgency rather than arbitrary benchmarks. Stay current on evolving tech stacks, architectural patterns, and emerging tools across frontend, backend, and design disciplines so you can credibly represent roles to senior technical candidates and assess fit beyond surface‑level keywords.

Build and enforce a structured interview accountability framework across all hiring teams, defining clear roles, evaluation criteria, and feedback SLAs for every interviewer involved in a loop. Hold hiring managers and interview panels accountable to timely, calibrated, and bias‑aware feedback, using data and direct conversation to address delays or inconsistencies that create bottlenecks or risk losing top candidates. Facilitate post‑interview debrief sessions that drive decisive, structured decision‑making, ensuring panels assess candidates against agreed‑upon technical and behavioral competencies rather than gut instinct or unstructured impressions.

Proactively identify when interview panel composition, question quality, or evaluation rigor is creating false negatives on strong candidates, and implement corrective calibration sessions to sharpen team judgment. Champion a hiring culture that balances speed with quality, setting expectations with stakeholders that velocity should never come at the cost of bar, while also ensuring that perfect does not become the enemy of good when production needs are pressing.

Develop and execute multi‑channel recruitment strategies to identify and attract qualified candidates through job boards, social media, professional networks, employee referrals, and targeted outreach. Utilize modern sourcing technologies, AI‑enabled recruiting tools, CRM platforms, and talent intelligence solutions to identify and engage passive candidates, particularly senior engineers, UX leads, and full‑stack developers who are not actively on the market. Conduct thorough…