Luis Saavedra

Lead Technical Recruiter @ PayPal | Technology Recruitment, Technical Leadership

Role
Lead Technical Recruiter at PayPal
Location
Elizabeth, CO, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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About Luis Saavedra

With over a decade of expertise in technology recruitment, I am a Lead Technical Recruiter at PayPal, dedicated to driving impactful hiring strategies that align with our mission of democratizing financial services. I specialize in talent acquisition, technical leadership recruitment, and process optimization, ensuring scalable and efficient hiring solutions. Passionate about fostering diverse and inclusive teams, I collaborate across global markets to deliver high-performing talent. At PayPal, I have successfully delivered critical enterprise engineering hires and led the implementation of a standardized hiring framework across multiple engineering organizations. By redesigning hiring infrastructure for LATAM, I improved process efficiency and strengthened our onsite-to-offer conversion rates. Managing a team across the US and LATAM, I focus on performance management and professional development while sustaining hiring delivery in competitive markets.

Experience

  1. Lead Technical Recruiter

    PayPal

    Feb 2022 — Present · Elizabeth, CO, US

    Delivered 72 enterprise engineering hires in 2025 across IC (all levels) and leadership roles (Manager–Senior Director), supporting multi-org workforce expansion.•Sustained hiring delivery across constrained markets, filling 41 engineering roles in 2024 while maintaining 46-day time-to-acceptance and 76-day time-to-hire.•Designed and scaled Mexico engineering hiring infrastructure, restructuring screening and calibration models to improve onsite-to-offer conversion.•Led enterprise implementation of standardized Hiring framework across multiple engineering orgs, formalizing intake rigor, SLAs, and structured interviews.•Managed a team of 3 Recruiters and Sourcers across US & LATAM, owning performance management, development planning, and delivery alignment.•Leveraged funnel analytics to eliminate evaluation bottlenecks and improve conversion rates across global sourcing teams.

Education

  • Whittier College

    Bachelor, Physical Education and Recreation

    1998 — 2002

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