Dispatch
VP of Talent
Hybrid +2 · Hybrid · Director · Full-time · Posted Aug 31, 2026
- Location
- Hybrid
San Francisco
New York - Experience
- 10+ years in recruiting; 5+ years as an individual contributor sourcing, assessing, and closing executive and hard-to-find talent; 4+ years building and managing recruiter teams. Early-stage startup experience is also requested.
About the job
Lead and scale Dispatch’s internal recruiting function while personally driving critical searches and partnering with founders and hiring managers to maintain a high hiring bar.
What you'll do
- Build and manage the recruiting team, systems, and operating cadence to bring recruiting in-house and scale hiring.
- Partner with hiring managers to define role requirements, improve assessment and closing, and build referral and long-term talent pipelines.
- Personally source, assess, reference, and close senior and hard-to-fill candidates; coordinate with external search firms on select searches.
What they ask for
- 10+ years in recruiting, including senior talent leadership at a high-growth B2B SaaS or technology company.
- 5+ years personally sourcing, assessing, and closing executive and hard-to-find talent as an individual contributor.
- 4+ years building and managing recruiter teams.
- Experience scaling an internal recruiting function and partnering directly with founders and executives on high-stakes searches.
Nice to have
- Experience recruiting enterprise go-to-market and engineering roles, or hiring in financial services or another regulated market.
- Comfort using AI tools and experience setting up an ATS, scorecards, and recruiting analytics from scratch.
Tools
AI tools, ATS
AI focus
Use AI tools to accelerate sourcing, screening, and market research (listed as a differentiator).
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