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[Coupang] Tech Recruiter

Coupang

Coupang

People & HR
Seoul, South Korea
Posted on May 9, 2025

Role Overview

Tech Recruiter will own Tech hiring within Global Recruiting team and work independently partnering with Tech business hiring managers, candidates and internal stakeholders to set the goal, manage process and monitor metrics etc. Recruiting is very pivotal to Coupang's business and you can make a huge impact by attracting right talents throughout the organization.

What You Will Do

  • Partner with hiring teams to build effective sourcing, assessment, and closing approaches with an ability to manage customer expectations through a deep understanding of requirement
  • Must be able to understand how to recruit passive candidates and possess the ability to assess candidate's fit for business in a long term, understand their motivation and sell Coupang to attract them
  • Build and maintain network of potential candidates through pro-active market research and on-going relationship management; conducts in-depth interviews of potential candidates, demonstrating ability to anticipate hiring manager preferences
  • Recommend ideas and strategies related to recruitment that will contribute to the long-range growth of the company, implementing any new processes and fine tuning standard processes for recruiting that fits our mission to create a world where people ask "How did we ever live without Coupang?"
  • Interview candidates within the framework of the position specification. Possess strong ability to screen, interview and prepare a candidate within an appropriate and consistent timeline
  • Participate in special projects/recruiting initiatives, including assessment of best practices in interviewing techniques, leveraging of internal sources of talent
  • Articulate in writing a plan with deliverable, timelines and a formal tracking process per the requisition s/he handles

Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of demonstrated experience in Technoloy and Software Recruitment
  • Expertise in full lifecycle recruiting aspects, salary trends
  • Ability to thrive in uncertainty and love for numbers and metrics
  • Bachelor’s degree in relevant discipline

Recruitment Process & Others

Recruitment Process

  • Application Review - Phone Interview - Virtual Onsite Interview – Offer
  • The exact nature of the recruitment process may vary according to the specific job and may be changed due to scheduling or other circumstances.
  • Interview schedules and the results will be informed to the applicant via the e-mail address submitted at the application stage.

Details to Consider

  • This job posting may be closed prior to the stated end date for application if all openings are filled.
  • Coupang has the right to rescind an offer of employment if a candidate is found to have submitted false information as part of the application process.
  • Those eligible for employment protection (recipients of veteran’s benefits, the disabled, etc.) may receive preferential treatment for employment in accordance with applicable laws.
  • Job titles and responsibilities may be subject to change depending on the candidate’s overall experience, etc. This will be communicated to the candidate at the appropriate time before the offer.
  • Hiring may be restricted in case the legal qualifications required for hiring and work performance is not met.
  • (Recruiter Note: add in the case of full-time regulars) This is a full-time regular position and includes 12 weeks of probation period; provided, however, the probationary period may be either skipped, shortened or extended if necessary for business purposes.
  • (Recruiter Note: add if probation period is applicable, for example in the case of contract position of 3 months or longer) This is a contract position and includes 12 weeks of probation period; provided, however, the probationary period may be either skipped, shortened or extended if necessary for business purposes.

Privacy Notice

  • Your personal information will be collected and managed by Coupang as stated in the Application Privacy Notice is located below.

https://privacy.coupang.com/en/land/jobs/

Document Return Policy (This notice MUST be included in a job posting in Korea only to comply with the Fair Hiring Procedure Act.)

  1. This notification is given pursuant to Article 11 (6) of the Fair Hiring Procedure Act.
  2. A job applicant, who has applied but not been finally selected for a position at Coupang (the “Company”), may request the Company to return his/her hiring documents submitted pursuant to the Fair Hiring Procedure Act. However, this will not apply where the hiring documents were submitted via the website of the Company or e-mail, or where the job applicant submitted those documents voluntarily without a request from the Company. In addition, if the hiring documents were destroyed due to a natural disaster or any other reasons not attributable to the Company, such documents will be deemed to have been returned to the job applicant.
  3. A job applicant who wishes to request the return of his/her hiring documents pursuant to the main sentence of paragraph 2 above should fill out a “Request for Return of Hiring Documents” [Annex Form No. 3 in the Enforcement Rule of the Fair Hiring Procedure Act] and submit It by email (recruitingops@coupang.com). In such case, within fourteen (14) days from the date of identifying the receipt of the request, the Company will send the hiring documents to the job applicant’s designated address via registered mail. Please be informed that the job applicant is required to pay the postage on the registered mail.
  4. In preparation for a job applicant’s request for the return of hiring documents pursuant to the main sentence of paragraph 2 above, the Company shall retain the original hiring documents submitted by the job applicant for 180 days from the completion of the recruiting process. If no request is made until the end of this period, all his/her hiring documents will be destroyed immediately in accordance with the Personal Information Protection Act.
  5. The above paragraphs 1 - 4 shall only apply when the labor-related laws of Korea govern the application. They are otherwise not applicable.

Equal Opportunities for All

Coupang is an equal opportunity employer. Our unprecedented success could not be possible without the valuable inputs of our globally diverse team.