Senior Recruiter

Position: Full-time

Location: Oakland, CA (on-site)

Expected Start Date: ASAP 2026

Reports To: Head of Talent

Why This Role Matters

America is short millions of homes and traditional construction can’t keep up.

oWOW is rewriting the playbook for building housing through industrialized design-build, vertically integrated development, and a manufacturing mindset brought to construction.

To pull this off at scale, we need exceptional people, that’s where you come in.

The Role

The Senior Recruiter is not a typical recruiting role. This is a founding talent operator who will directly shape the future of oWOW by bringing in the builders, engineers, designers, operators, and leaders who will transform how housing gets delivered in America. You’ll run points on the hires that make or break the company’s next stage of growth and help build our recruiting system, not just run it.

This is high-impact, high-velocity, mission-driven work.

What You’ll Do (The Fun Stuff)

The Director of Talent is responsible for building and operating a high-performance talent system that consistently delivers the right people into the right roles at the right time, enabling oWOW to scale with speed, clarity, and excellence. 

This role owns hiring execution, workforce planning and comp philosophy. You will partner closely with leadership while raising the bar at oWOW.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who thrives in fast-moving environments, brings strong talent judgment, and can build systems that scale. 

What You’ll Do

1. You’ll be responsible for recruiting top performers across:

  • Engineering (structural, MEP, civil, manufacturing)

  • Design-build (architects, PMs, estimators, superintendents)

  • Factory / Industrialized construction operations

  • Development, Investments, Acquisitions, and corporate leadership

2. Be a Talent Hunter (Not a Coordinator)

  • Aggressively source candidates in the top 1%

  • Build outbound strategies that pull talent from the best companies

  • Turn cold prospects into fired-up candidates

You’re a top choice if you know how to find people who aren’t looking, and excite them about a mission worth switching jobs for.

3. Partner Directly With Leadership

  • Define success profiles, role scorecards, and hiring plans

  • Influence org design and talent strategy

  • Be a strategic voice in the room, not an order taker.

4. Build the oWOW Recruiting Engine

  • Build proactive talent acquisition pipelines for future growth roles

  • Build a robust Applicant Tracking System (ATS)

  • Establish an employee referral program

  • Oversee marketing initiatives to communicate the companies narrative to high quality candidates

5. Own candidate experience end-to-end

  • Design & implement a compelling onboarding experience to new hires

  • Improve long-term retention

What Success Looks Like

  • Critical leadership & technical roles filled with A-players

  • Time-to-fill for priority roles: <45 days

  • Hiring managers rave about your speed + judgment

  • oWOW becomes known as a magnet for world-class talent

You will literally see your impact walking around the office, designing, and building housing that reshapes cities.

Who you are

  • 3 - 10+ years of recruiting experience in construction, AEC, engineering, manufacturing, or high-growth tech

  • Proven track record of closing senior and technical roles

  • Elite sourcing abilities - Boolean fluency, competitive mapping, passive outreach mastery

  • High-judgment interviewer; trusted by executives

  • Builder mindset - you like building processes, not inheriting them

  • Fast, clear, resourceful, relentless

  • Energized by solving the housing crisis and creating real-world impact

Why join oWOW?

  • You’ll be a key architect of the team that builds the future of housing

  • You’ll see your work translate directly into buildings, neighborhoods, and lives changed

  • You’ll have massive career upside as we scale

  • Competitive compensation + performance incentives + equity

Apply Now!

Send your CV and state why you’ll excel in this role to danny@owow.com

Candidates requiring visa sponsorship may be considered only if eligible for non-lottery visa categories (e.g., TN, E-3, O-1) or for transfer of an existing H-1B visa. We are unable to sponsor new H-1B visas for this role at this time.