Lead Recruiter

APPLICATIONS FROM OUTSIDE COLOMBIA WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE Robots & Pencils is a digital innovation consulting firm that partners with organizations to solve meaningful, complex problems through technology, design, and engineering. We move fast, work at the edge of what’s possible, and rely on exceptional people to deliver for our clients. As we scale across geographies, clients, and delivery models, we are investing in a single executive owner for the entire talent ecosystem — someone who can bring clarity, cohesion, and strategy to how we attract, grow, deploy, and support our people.

Position Overview Reporting to a Director of Talent Acquisition, and partnering directly with leadership across the organization, this role will lead to full-cycle recruiting for highly specialized engineering, client delivery, and executive level talent. From sourcing and candidate experience to hiring strategies and skills assessments, you’ll ensure that every step of our hiring process reflects our values, raises our bar, and strengthens our ability to deliver breakthrough AI solutions to our clients. Why This Role Matters: Our ability to innovate for clients depends on the quality, versatility, and readiness of our people.

The right recruiting partner helps leaders build balanced teams, anticipate future needs, and bring in people who can thrive in fast-moving, client-centric environments.

What You’Ll Do

Recruiting & Talent Acquisition Lead full-cycle recruitment across a range of roles including product, design, delivery, and engineering professionals. Partner with hiring leaders to define success profiles, interview structures, and evaluation criteria aligned to both capability and impact. Build strong pipelines through proactive outreach, referrals, communities, and creative sourcing strategies.

Serve as a trusted advisor by sharing market insight, talent trends, and practical recommendations. Own the candidate journey end-to-end, ensuring communication is thoughtful, timely, and human.

Compensation

practices and internal equity. Strategy, Process & Collaboration Strengthen recruiting practices to support specialized and often concurrent hiring needs. Collaborate with HR, marketing, and leadership to ensure job content and messaging are clear, compelling, and accurate.

Support workforce planning conversations tied to upcoming client work, growth priorities, and capability gaps. Maintain reliable data in recruiting systems for reporting and visibility. Represent the organization in external communities, events, and networking environments to build long-term relationships.

Assessment & Hiring Excellence Partner with interview teams to maintain a high and consistent hiring bar. Conduct initial screens to evaluate functional expertise, problem solving, and client readiness. Coach interviewers on structured, fair, and inclusive evaluation practices.

Contribute to improving rubrics, tools, and analytics that help us hire smarter over time. What You’ll Bring A degree in business, HR, communications, or a related field (or equivalent experience). 5+ years of recruiting experience, including experience specifically on technical/engineering as well as consulting/delivery roles.

Ability to understand and discuss foundational technical concepts (APIs, cloud architectures, LLMs, vector databases, agentic workflows). Track record of hiring specialized passive talent in competitive markets.

Requirements

across both technical and non-technical disciplines. Strong relationship skills with the ability to influence and advise hiring leaders. Ability to manage multiple searches while staying organized and responsive.

Helpful Extras Experience in consulting, digital product environments, or high-growth companies. Familiarity with modern recruiting systems and sourcing tools. Exposure to employer branding, community engagement, or event recruiting.