Technical Recruitment Consultant

About the role

Bluebird is a boutique search firm where every consultant has worked in the roles they fill. It is building a dedicated technical desk to help its clients secure top engineering talent across Australia, and you will build and own it end to end: client relationships, search, assessment and placement. You will work with SaaS and AI founders and engineering leads, alongside the founder early on.

Key responsibilities

• Help leading AI companies find elite engineers, solutions engineers and forward deployed engineers.
• Own the full search lifecycle: scoping the brief, writing the role, sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer and reference checks.
• Assess candidates properly, from architecture thinking to customer-facing ability.
• Build proactive talent pipelines for the engineering and FDE roles clients hire for repeatedly.
• Advise clients with market data on realistic salaries, timelines and talent availability, and push back when expectations are off.
• Track pipeline health and time to fill, using AI-assisted sourcing and screening tools.
• Shape how the technical desk works, who it serves and how it exceeds client expectations.

Required profile

• Software engineering background with real production experience.
• High agency, entrepreneurial mindset and the discipline to deliver exceptional work.
• A record of chasing outcomes without being told to (side project, side hustle, startup, scrappy promotion).
• Good communication with founders, engineers and customers.
• Wants commercial upside and ownership rather than a corporate ladder.
• Happy to be on the phone a lot; recruitment or agency experience is a bonus.

What we offer

• $100k base plus uncapped commission, with realistic earnings of $225k in year 1 and $300k in year 2.
• Hybrid and flexible working.
• Direct mentoring from a managing partner with 17 years in SaaS GTM, with a path to head the desk and grow a team.