- New York, NY
- Quantitative Research & Technology Firm
- 5 Days onsite
- $140,000 - $200,000 plus discretionary bonus and a comprehensive benefits package.
Our client is a start up quantitative research and technology company that combines exceptional talent, innovative technology and rigorous scientific thinking to solve complex challenges across global financial markets. Its systematic approach blends technical excellence, innovation and long-term thinking to deliver sustained performance and competitive advantage.
As the business continues to grow, the firm is investing heavily in building world-class talent acquisition capabilities. They are seeking an experienced Technical Recruiter to play a pivotal role in identifying, engaging, and hiring exceptional engineering and quantitative talent, while helping to build a best-in-class campus recruitment, events, and employer branding strategy.
Opportunity
This is a high-visibility role with significant ownership and impact. Working closely with senior leadership, engineers, quantitative researchers, and other technical stakeholders, the successful candidate will manage the full recruitment lifecycle while helping to shape the firm's broader talent acquisition strategy.
A key focus of the role will be strengthening relationships with leading universities, technical communities, academic programmes, conferences, and industry events to create sustainable pipelines of outstanding early-career and experienced technical talent.
This position would suit an individual who understands the quantitative finance, technology, or research landscape and enjoys building long-term talent networks in highly competitive markets.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage end-to-end recruitment across technical, engineering, and quantitative research functions.
- Develop and execute campus recruiting initiatives targeting leading engineering, mathematics, computer science, physics, and quantitative programmes.
- Build strong relationships with universities, faculty members, student organisations, research groups, and academic communities.
- Represent the organisation at career fairs, technical conferences, networking events, seminars, and other industry forums.
- Design innovative sourcing strategies across referrals, direct outreach, academic competitions, open source communities, technical networks, and professional associations.
- Partner with leadership to enhance employer branding and strengthen visibility within key talent markets.
- Conduct market intelligence research covering talent trends, competitor activity, compensation benchmarks, and candidate preferences.
- Build and nurture long-term relationships with high-potential candidates across all levels of seniority.
- Analyse recruitment funnel performance, event ROI, and hiring metrics to improve conversion rates and hiring outcomes.
- Provide regular reporting and strategic insights to leadership on talent acquisition performance and opportunities.
Requied Profile
The ideal candidate will be organised, proactive, and relationship-driven, with the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, high-performance environment.
You will enjoy engaging with people and building meaningful connections, whether speaking with students at a university event, networking with senior technical professionals at an industry conference, or partnering internally with hiring managers and leadership teams.
You will also be comfortable working with recruitment data and analytics, using insights to improve processes and deliver exceptional hiring outcomes.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 3 years' experience in technical recruitment.
- Experience recruiting within quantitative finance, hedge funds, proprietary trading, technology, AI/ML, or highly technical organisations would be advantageous.
- Demonstrated success sourcing and securing high-calibre technical talent in competitive markets.
- Experience with campus recruiting, university partnerships, technical events, or graduate hiring programmes.
- Strong understanding of technical and quantitative talent pools, including software engineering, infrastructure, research, data, and AI disciplines.
- Ability to engage credibly with candidates ranging from students and graduates through to senior industry professionals.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong organisational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.
- Experience analysing recruitment and pipeline data to support decision-making.
- Familiarity with ATS platforms such as Greenhouse is desirable.
- SHRM certification would be advantageous.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: $140,000 - $200,000, plus discretionary bonus and a comprehensive benefits package.
Compensation will be determined by experience and scope of responsibility.
This represents an outstanding opportunity to join a highly respected quantitative research and technology organisation and play a key role in helping to build one of the industry's most sought-after technical talent functions.
