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Vapi is a voice AI platform that powers intelligent agents for enterprise customers like Amazon Ring, Intuit, ServiceTitan, and New York Life. The company has raised $72M (Series B led by Peak XV Partners) and is competing directly with Anthropic and OpenAI for top talent.
You'll own all candidate-facing recruiting programs at Vapi, reporting directly to the Head of Talent. This is a newly created role to build recruiting capability in-house rather than outsourcing to agencies.
Key responsibilities include:
- Employer brand and careers content strategy
- Technical events and community building (hackathons, engineering meetups, campus sessions)
- Referral program design and execution (targeting 25-30% of hires)
- University and early-career pipeline development
- Talent community management and nurture campaigns
- Recruiting metrics tracking (cost-per-hire, referral %, sourced-hire %, time-to-fill, offer acceptance)
In your first 30 days, you'll audit current hiring processes, careers site presence, and establish baseline metrics. By day 60, you'll launch quick wins including a revamped referral program and shared event calendar with Marketing. By day 90, you'll run your first recruiting-focused technical event and present a 12-month roadmap.
You should have experience building recruiting programs or employer brand from scratch at fast-growing startups competing for technical talent. You're an events operator comfortable running programs end-to-end on time and budget. You think in recruiting metrics, understand candidate marketing versus customer marketing, write well, and are comfortable being the first owner of this function.
