Full-Time
Lead Technical Recruiter
Later
1,001-5,000 employees
Social media management and influencer marketing
Compensation Overview
$145k - $165k/yr
Boston, MA, USA
Hybrid
Hybrid role; some on-site in Boston, MA. Fully remote options may be considered for select positions.
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- 8+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with significant focus on product, engineering, data, and AI roles
- 2+ years of experience supervising, mentoring, or leading other recruiters
- Demonstrated success hiring senior-level or business-critical technical talent in competitive markets
- Experience owning a market-specific and/or function-specific talent strategy
- Proven ability to partner with senior leaders and influence hiring decisions using data, judgment, and market insight
- Strong sourcing expertise across passive talent, referrals, and community-based channels
- Hands-on experience leading offer strategy, negotiation, and closing conversations
- Track record of designing or improving structured, equitable recruiting processes
- Comfort using recruiting metrics and insights to prioritize work and improve outcomes
- Experience representing an employer externally through events, partnerships, or community engagement
- Proficiency with modern Applicant Tracking Systems and recruiting technology, including Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, sourcing automation tools, analytics platforms, and AI-enabled recruiting tools
- Exceptional communication and storytelling skills with an inclusive, consultative approach
- Resilient, resourceful, and energized by building long-term talent infrastructure in a fast-growing environment
- Build and own a nationwide R&D talent strategy with a deep focus on the Boston market, informed by market dynamics, academic institutions, and technical communities
- Partner with R&D and business leaders to translate organizational goals into clear, achievable hiring plans
- Design and continuously improve scalable, structured, and equitable recruiting processes that prioritize candidate quality, speed, and experience
- Champion the responsible and transparent use of AI in recruiting while maintaining trust, fairness, and data integrity
- Serve as a subject-matter expert on technical talent markets, compensation trends, and recruiting technology
- Own full-cycle recruiting for product, engineering, data, and AI roles across levels, including senior and hard-to-fill positions
- Develop proactive sourcing strategies including market mapping, referrals, community-based approaches, and outbound engagement
- Lead offer strategy, negotiation, and closing conversations in partnership with People and Finance, balancing competitiveness and internal equity
- Maintain accurate, high-quality data within Later’s ATS and recruiting systems to support reporting, compliance, and forecasting
- Track, analyze, and share recruiting metrics (e.g., time-to-fill, quality of hire, funnel conversion) to inform decisions and continuously improve outcomes
- Act as a trusted advisor to hiring managers, coaching them on effective, inclusive hiring practices and structured decision-making
- Supervise, mentor, and develop members of the technical talent acquisition team, supporting skill growth and operational excellence
- Partner cross-functionally with People, Marketing, and Operations to strengthen employer brand and candidate experience
- Represent Later at Boston-area events, conferences, and universities as a credible voice in technical talent acquisition
- Stay current on technology market trends, emerging recruiting tools, and evolving hiring practices
- Build and maintain recruiting playbooks, frameworks, and documentation that scale with the business
- Benchmark Later’s talent acquisition practices against high-performing organizations and operationalize improvements
- Business-critical R&D roles are filled with high-quality talent in a timely, consistent manner
- Hiring managers rely on you as a trusted partner for complex and senior-level hiring decisions
- Recruiting processes are structured, fair, and continuously improving based on data and feedback
- Later’s presence and reputation in the Boston technical talent market strengthens measurably over time
- The technical recruiting function operates with strong data hygiene, predictable execution, and clear accountability
Later offers a suite of social media tools for marketers, brands, and influencers, including Later Social Media Management, Later Influence, and Later Link in Bio. It works by providing planning, scheduling, and analysis for posts; automating influencer campaigns with ROI tracking; and routing traffic from a single bio link to multiple destinations, all through subscription plans. It differentiates itself by combining influencer marketing, social media management, and link optimization with real-time ROI insights and expert services for large brands. Its goal is to help marketers achieve predictable, measurable returns from social media and build the first Social Revenue platform.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
Seed
Total Funding
$3.8M
Headquarters
Vancouver, Canada
Founded
2014
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Enterprise business doubled YoY in Q1 2026 with Nike, Unilever clients.
- Mavely $250M acquisition adds social commerce, grows workforce to 375.
- Later 360 launched February 2026 unifies reporting from engagement to sales.
What critics are saying
- Hootsuite erodes market share via Threads integrations in 6-12 months.
- Sprinklr steals Fortune 500 clients with superior AI analytics in 12-18 months.
- TikTok creator marketplace cuts Later demand in 3-6 months.
What makes Later unique
- Later Influence leads enterprise influencer marketing with $2.9B verified purchases.
- Later EdgeAI predicts performance using decade of data from 16M creators.
- Later Social pioneered link-in-bio tool with Meta, TikTok integrations.
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Later, an influencer marketing platform, has reported over 100% year-over-year growth in enterprise business for Q1 2026. The company now powers $2.9 billion in verified influencer-driven purchases and has delivered more than $250 million in cumulative creator payouts. Global brands including Nike, Southwest Airlines, Wayfair and Unilever are using Later's platform to manage creator programmes at scale. The company attributes its growth to brands consolidating their creator and social programmes around data-driven, performance-focused solutions. Later appointed Mohsin Hussain as chief technology officer, effective 1 April 2026. Hussain joins from LiveRamp, where he served as CTO. He will accelerate innovation behind Later EdgeAI, the company's AI-enabled technology that helped marketers manage 70% more creators per campaign and achieve 40% higher engagement last year.
Later, an influencer marketing platform, has appointed Paige Kelly as General Manager, Creator. She will lead the growth of Later's creator community and strengthen connections between the company's enterprise clients and hundreds of thousands of creators. Kelly joins from Wayfair, where she spent 14 years helping scale the company from 400 to over 12,000 employees, including through its 2014 public offering. She most recently headed Wayfair's housewares vertical, global supplier acquisition and branded product strategy. At Later, Kelly will expand creator resources, accelerate campaign opportunities and deepen community engagement. The company has been hosting creator meetups across major US cities including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. Later's platform leverages over a decade of proprietary data and has facilitated $2.4 billion in verified influencer-driven purchases.
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/PRNewswire/ -- Later, a leader in influencer marketing and social media management software and services, today announced its acquisition of Mavely, the...