Director of Talent

TL;DR

Director of Talent (Recruiting): Build and scale in-house recruiting across Engineering, Product, and GTM with an accent on end-to-end hiring plans, technical sourcing reach, and candidate experience. Focus on designing intake and scorecard systems, reducing agency spend while maintaining quality, and launching an employer brand initiative to attract engineers and operators.

Location: Hybrid (San Francisco)

Salary: $240K–$275K base + equity

Company

hirify.global deploys voice agents that resolve customer calls by understanding business context and adapting in real time.

What you will do

• Own the full hiring plan and recruiting execution across Engineering, Product, and GTM.
• Audit and improve the recruiting funnel end-to-end: intake quality, pipeline coverage, candidate experience, and time-to-decision.
• Lead a team of recruiters to run searches end-to-end without defaulting to agencies.
• Close highest-priority roles and ensure predictable pipeline coverage with no search starting from scratch.
• Implement structured intake and scorecard processes to make hiring decisions faster and more consistent.
• Build reporting cadence for recruiting health (coverage, time-to-fill, offer acceptance, quality of hire) and launch an employer brand initiative.

Requirements

• 7+ years in recruiting, including at least 2 years leading a team at a high-growth startup.
• Experience recruiting in developer tools, infrastructure, or AI.
• Proven ability to build in-house recruiting capability that reduces or eliminates agency spend without sacrificing quality or speed.
• Strong technical talent sourcing instincts and ability to engage engineers who are not actively looking.
• Operationally strong, direct, and effective at driving outcomes to “yes” with clear feedback to candidates and hiring managers.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision).
• Flexible time off and quarterly off-sites.
• Real equity ownership with a competitive base salary.
• $10k annual L&D budget; catered meals, transportation, and gym support.
• Near-zero agency spend expectation while maintaining hiring quality and speed.

Hiring process

• Interviews focused on recruiting leadership, in-house capability building, and process/system design.
• Discussion of how you would audit the current funnel and deliver early wins across priority searches.