Contract Recruiter, Sales (APAC)

An overview of the role 

As a Recruiter at GitLab, you'll help teams identify, engage, and hire talented candidates across the APAC region. You'll work closely with cross-functional partners and business stakeholders to shape recruiting strategies, manage full lifecycle hiring, and create a thoughtful candidate experience from first conversation through offer stage. This role is a strong fit for someone who enjoys balancing sourcing, stakeholder partnership, market insight, and process improvement while working in an all-remote, asynchronous environment. Because many of the roles supported by this position are located in APAC, the ideal candidate will also be based in the region.

What you'll do

• Collaborate with cross-functional partners and hiring teams to establish effective recruiting strategies. 
• Engage in Full Lifecycle Recruiting, with a focus on developing a balanced candidate source mix (passive, active and referral candidates). 
• Develop and advertise accurate job descriptions to attract a highly qualified candidate pool. 
• Utilize talent market insights and research to influence sourcing strategy. 
• Proactively build and use personal resources and assets to enable high quality, accurate conversations. 
• Utilize data to develop and execute effective hiring team management strategies. 
• Cultivate positive candidate experience by ensuring timely, thoughtful and engaging communication throughout the hiring process. 
• Leverage a data driven approach to pipeline management by monitoring key metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of recruiting processes. 
• Develop recommendations for course corrections by utilizing data from our ATS, candidate surveys and other feedback loops. 
• Contribute to TA process iteration, with a focus on continuous improvement. 
• Employ deep recruiting pipeline knowledge or experience to identify industry best practices and evaluate competitors. 
• Promote GitLab values and culture in day-to-day work and in external-facing settings. 
• Partner with Talent Brand to deliver engaging employer brand content and enhance networks and partnerships. 

What you'll bring

• Experience recruiting at all levels, and preferably for APAC Sales positions across several countries. 
• Proven success in recruiting for positions in competitive global job markets. 
• Focused on delivering an excellent candidate experience. 
• Ambitious, efficient and stable under tight deadlines and competing priorities. 
• Ability to build collaborative cross-functional relationships across multiple timezones. 
• Working knowledge using a candidate tracking system (ideally Greenhouse) and various sourcing tools (including LinkedIn Recruiter). 
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills. 
• Willingness to learn and use software tools including Git and GitLab. 
• Remote working experience in a public technology company setting is an added advantage. 

The team 

The team works at the center of GitLab's growth, partnering with hiring managers and business leaders to bring exceptional talent into the company. As part of Talent Acquisition, you'll help connect candidates to a company that is helping organizations improve developer productivity, operational efficiency, and security through GitLab's intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. This team values clear communication and a practical, data-informed approach to hiring. You'll join a globally distributed group that embraces collaboration, continuous learning, and the use of AI in daily workflows to improve efficiency, innovation, and impact. It's a team for people who care deeply about candidate experience, strong partnership, and helping GitLab co-create the future.