Technical Recruiter

Job Title: Technical Recruiter

Location: Greater Toronto Area (Remote)

Reports To: Head of People and Employee Experience

About the Role

As a Technical Recruiter at Vantage, you’ll play a crucial role in scaling our world-class team that’s building the leading retail media platform in North America. This is an exciting opportunity for a recruiter who thrives in fast-paced environments, enjoys building processes, and has a sharp eye for identifying top-tier talent across technical and product roles.

Your focus will be on actively managing open roles, sourcing and engaging candidates, coordinating interview processes, and ensuring an outstanding candidate experience. The ideal candidate has experience recruiting in SaaS or AdTech/MarTech companies and thrives in an execution-focused environment.

Key Responsibilities

Talent Acquisition & Strategy

• Own the end-to-end recruitment process for technical and product roles, including sourcing, screening, interviewing, and closing candidates.

• Collaborate with leadership to help forecast hiring needs and prioritize roles based on strategic goals.

• Develop and refine role scorecards and interview plans that align with company values and team fit.

Candidate Sourcing & Outreach

• Proactively source candidates using LinkedIn, GitHub, job boards, referrals, and other creative strategies.

• Build and nurture a pipeline of top technical talent, especially in software engineering, data science, DevOps, and product management.

Hiring Operations & Process Optimization

• Maintain our applicant tracking system (ATS) and ensure accurate, organized candidate records.

• Contribute to a structured, equitable, and high-quality interview experience for all candidates.

• Partner with marketing and leadership on employer branding initiatives, recruitment collateral, and job descriptions.

Cross-functional Partnership

• Work closely with the engineering leaders at Vantage to align hiring with business priorities.

• Collaborate with HR to support onboarding and help build documentation, onboarding processes, and culture initiatives.

Skills & Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience in full-cycle technical recruitment, ideally in a startup or high-growth SaaS environment.

• Strong understanding of technical roles and hiring needs (e.g., software development, data, DevOps, product, design).

• Proven ability to fill multiple roles quickly while maintaining a great candidate experience.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; able to build relationships with hiring managers and candidates alike.

• Experience with ATS platforms (e.g., Ashby, Lever, Greenhouse, Workable) and recruitment tools.

• Highly organized, proactive, and comfortable working independently in a fast-paced remote environment.

• Bonus: Exposure to AdTech, MarTech, or Retail Media hiring, or experience working closely with People Ops.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary with performance-based incentives.

• Equity and ownership opportunities within a growing company.

• Comprehensive health benefits and flexible work options.

• Generous PTO and professional development support.

• Opportunity to shape the sales direction of an innovative advertising platform.

Join Us:

Be a part of Vantage’s exciting growth journey. Apply now to lead our sales strategy, drive product success, and position Vantage as a leader in the advertising industry.

About Vantage

Vantage plays in a $250BN addressable market in North America that is seeing significant disruption. Retailers are transforming their digital marketing practices to drive customer acquisition and are looking for new profit centers in retail media networks.

Vantage is uniquely positioned in this space, having established a technology platform that is custom-built for retail media. We offer the only turnkey platform for integrated retail media networks. We significantly outperform online media benchmarks by leveraging automation, machine learning, and AI. Ours is the market-leading platform and we have real traction with some of the biggest names in retail.

We are excited to expand the team and take the company to the next level. You would have the opportunity to get in early, and obviously, that comes with great possible financial upside, but it also comes with an opportunity to shape the culture of the team. So, we’re picky about the people we invite to join the journey. We’re looking for true team players, not lone wolves or temporary hired guns. We are professionals with a passion for doing great work and driving real success for Vantage and our clients.

Headquartered in Toronto but working fully remotely, the Vantage team is diverse, creative, and fun. We believe that our strong commitment to diversity & inclusion enables Vantage to be better. We also believe that people are happiest and can accomplish the most amazing things when they have the freedom and flexibility to customize their work and life environments and can take on huge, stimulating challenges with fantastic colleagues.

In addition to your compensation, enjoy the rewards of an organization that puts our heart into building a team. Vantage offers a full range of medical, dental, and vision benefits. All employees are also owners, as everyone is enrolled into the Vantage Employee Stock Option Plan. Vantage provides strong maternity / parental leave benefits in all jurisdictions.

Vantage also offers numerous well-being programs, education assistance, development courses, and discount programs with participating partners. As for time off, Vantage employees enjoy generous vacations, as well as paid holidays throughout the calendar year, a number of paid holidays, sick time, and other time off are provided consistent with relevant jurisdictions and company policies.

Reasonable accommodations are available to job applicants on request and throughout the application process.

We thank all applicants in advance for their interest in this position; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.