Luis Saavedra
Lead Technical Recruiter @ PayPal | Technology Recruitment, Technical Leadership
- Role
- Lead Technical Recruiter at PayPal
- Location
- Elizabeth, CO, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
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
Lead Technical Recruiter
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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