Senior Technical Recruiter

Senior Technical Recruiter (12 Month Contract)

Toronto, ON, Canada

Posted Tuesday, June 16, 2026 at 4:00 AM

Purpose Unlimited is an independent financial services company with an unrelenting focus on customer-centric innovation, delivered through technology-driven solutions. Led by entrepreneur Som Seif, the company is developing a diversified product platform aimed at addressing historically underserved segments of the market. Purpose Unlimited’s businesses include Purpose Investments, Advisor Solutions by Purpose, and Driven.

Vacancy Status: This is for a current opening.

Compensation: $90,000 - $120,000

Who You are

Purpose Unlimited is building the future of financial services – and we need the recruiter who will build the team that builds it. As our first Toronto-based Senior Technical Recruiter, you own the hiring engine for our technology and AI squads: identifying exceptional technical talent across every discipline, closing candidates who have options, and shaping the recruiting infrastructure that scales with us.

You will partner daily with our CTO and senior technology leaders to translate ambitious product and AI roadmaps into talent pipelines. Your remit spans the full technical org – software engineers, data engineers, data scientists, digital engineers, tech leads, and emerging talent through our internship program. This is a full-lifecycle, high-ownership role at the intersection of a fast-moving startup and a category-defining mission.

AI handles the sourcing volume and research. You bring the judgment, the relationships, and the close.

What AI does so you don’t have to

• Boolean sourcing and profile aggregation at scale
• First-pass resume screening against defined criteria
• Candidate research briefs and role prep summaries
• Outreach sequence drafting for high-volume roles

What only you can do

• Read the room – candidate motivations, hesitations, and fit signals
• Build trust with passive candidates who have no reason to move
• Calibrate hiring bars with engineers who know what great looks like
• Negotiate, where emotion, logic, and timing all matter
• Make judgment calls when data is ambiguous and urgency is real

What you’ll own

• Build and own the full technical talent pipeline
• Source and close top-tier candidates across software engineering, data engineering, data science, digital engineering, and tech lead roles
• Manage the full spectrum from high-volume hiring to niche senior searches – and own our internship program end-to-end
• Serve as a strategic partner to the CTO and technology leadership
• Define ideal candidate profiles, go-to-market recruiting strategies, and hiring bar calibration across every technical discipline
• Bring market intelligence and competitive data that shape hiring decisions
• Own the candidate experience from first outreach to offer accepted
• Guide candidates through our process with transparency and genuine care for fit, regardless of seniority level
• Lead compensation and equity conversations with confidence and precision
• Design and continuously improve the recruiting infrastructure
• Deploy AI recruiting tools to scale sourcing, research, and pipeline management
• Track, analyze, and act on recruiting metrics – conversion rates, time-to-fill, quality of hire
• Drive cross-functional alignment across Technology, Operations, Marketing, and P&C to land hires that stick.

What you must bring

• 6+ years of full-lifecycle technical recruiting, with direct ownership of searches across multiple technical disciplines
• A demonstrated track record closing passive senior candidates in competitive markets
• Fluency with AI recruiting tools – you know how to configure, direct, and improve them, not just use them
• Exceptional stakeholder communication; you earn trust quickly with technical leaders and hiring managers across disciplines

What will set you apart:

• Experience scaling technical recruiting across multiple disciplines – software, data, and digital – in a high-growth startup or fintech environment
• Background recruiting for internship and early-career programs alongside senior and specialist hires
• Proven ability to build recruiting processes that outlast the person who built them
• Experience with startup equity…