Contract Senior Technical Recruiter

Who We Are

Babylist is the leading registry, e-commerce, and content platform for growing families. More than 9 million people shop with Babylist every year, making it the go-to destination for seamless purchasing, trusted guidance, and expert product recommendations for new parents and the people who love them. What began as a universal registry has grown into a full ecosystem for new parents, including the Babylist Shop, Babylist Health, and a flagship showroom in Los Angeles. Hundreds of brands in baby and beyond partner with Babylist to engage meaningfully with families during one of life’s most important transitions. With over $1 billion in annual GMV, and more than $500 million in 2024 revenue, Babylist is reshaping the $320 billion baby product industry. We’re helping parents feel confident, connected, and cared for at every step. As we build the generational brand in baby, our mission remains simple: to connect growing families with everything they need to thrive.To learn more, visit www.babylist.com.

Our Ways of Working

Babylist is remote-first with team members across the U.S. and Canada who move fast, think smart, and use AI as part of how they work every day — not as an experiment, as an expectation. We come together twice a year to build the relationships behind the work, and we hire people who are genuinely excited about what's possible and prove it through how they show up.
Please note: This is a contract role expected end date of December 2026. As a contractor, you will not participate in company or department offsites. Extension or conversion to full-time may be considered at the end of the contract based on business need and mutual interest

What the Role Is

Babylist is hiring a Senior Technical Recruiter on a 9-month contract to own hiring across Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI. This is a fixed-term role, not a contract-to-perm pipeline. We're telling you that now so you can choose this for what it actually is. And what it actually is: real ownership at a company where 9 million families a year trust us to help them navigate one of the biggest transitions of their lives, and where the teams you'll hire for are building the product that makes that possible.

You'll partner directly with our Head of TA and have genuine influence over how a company scaling toward $1B hires its most critical technical talent. The req load is focused by design so you can go deep on hard problems rather than spread thin across volume. You'll shape sourcing strategy, push back on leveling, redesign interview loops that aren't working, and run debriefs where your perspective actually changes the outcome. We're AI-forward in how we actually work, not just what we hire for, and you'll join a TA team with low ego, high trust, and a genuine habit of teaching each other.

This is not a fit if you want a scoped execution role where someone else owns the strategy, or you're hoping this quietly converts. It won't. If you've mainly operated within established playbooks or prefer to avoid the uncomfortable conversation when a HM's expectations don't match the market, this will be a tough seat.

Who You Are

• 5+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience with deep ownership of software engineering hiring and a track record closing senior or highly specialized roles
• You've built or redesigned recruiting processes. Interview loops, calibration practices, sourcing strategies. You can point to what changed because of it.
• You know the Canadian technical talent market. Comp benchmarks, talent distribution, and how to position against FAANG and well-funded startups competing for the same people.
• Proven sourcing chops for hard-to-fill roles using multi-channel strategies that go beyond posting and waiting
• You're a consultative partner to hiring managers. You bring data, market perspective, and honest pushback to intake, leveling, and debriefs.
• You thrive where the playbook is still being written and find build-mode energizing rather than stressful
• You're genuinely curious about AI in recruiting. How it's changing sourcing, evaluation, and how you work day to day, while staying grounded in human judgment.

How You Will Make An Impact

• Own hiring outcomes across Engineering, Data, ML, and AI from intake through close. These teams are building the product that powers Babylist's growth.
• Build sourcing strategies tailored to the Canadian market. Talent mapping, outbound campaigns, and referral generation for a pool that requires creativity to crack.
• Lead structured intakes that define scope, leveling, and success criteria before a search starts pointed at the wrong target
• Run debriefs that actually drive decisions. High-signal, well-facilitated, holding interviewers accountable to the rubric.
• Spot what's broken in the process and fix it. Stages where candidates fall off, rubrics that aren't calibrated, question sets testing the wrong things.
• Deliver a candidate experience that feels like Babylist. Responsive, transparent, warm, and honest about the hard parts.
• Contribute beyond your own reqs. Interview training, tooling, employer branding. Small team, everyone builds.

 

About Compensation

We use a market-based approach to compensation. The starting salary range for this role is:

CAD $ 148,000 - $154.500

Your starting salary will be based on your location, experience, and qualifications, with increases over time tied to performance, role growth, and internal pay equity.

Why You Will Love Working At Babylist

Our Culture

• We work with focus and intention, then step away to recharge
• We believe in exceptional management and invest in tools and opportunities to connect with colleagues
• We build products that positively impact millions of people's lives
• AI is intentionally embedded in how we work, create, and scale—supporting innovation and impact

Growth & Development

• Competitive pay and meaningful opportunities for career advancement
• We believe technology and data can solve hard problems
• We're committed to career progression and performance-based advancement

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Generous PTO

Recorded Interviews Babylist uses an interview recording tool to record and transcribe interviews for evaluation purposes in accordance with applicable privacy laws. By participating in an interview, you consent to this recording and transcription.

Interview Integrity At Babylist, every team uses AI daily and we love it. During interviews though, we want to see you — your thinking, your problem-solving, your creativity. All interviews and assessments should be completed independently without AI tools or third-party assistance unless we tell you otherwise. We'll always be clear when AI is welcome. Misrepresentation during the process may result in removal from consideration.

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