VP of Recruiting

Location: Downtown Austin TX
Type: Full-time Executive Leadership
Compensation: World-class executive pay equity premium benefits

Weve built a $35M business with just 70 people by hiring smart disciplined high-output teammates who act fast and own outcomes. Now were looking for a VP of Recruiting to take that engine to the next level.

At recruiting isnt a back-office function. Its one of the most important levers of growth a strategic driver that directly determines whether we succeed. While other companies treat recruiting as a support process we treat it as a permanent competitive advantage.

About The Role

This is a highly visible executive seat. As VP of Recruiting youll work directly with our CEO and COO to shape the growth of every team in the company. Your mandate isnt to simply fill seats. Its to raise the caliber of talent across the entire business building a machine that consistently delivers world-class hires who raise the bar strengthen the culture and give an unfair advantage against competitors who are larger richer and slower.

This is a hands-on executive role. Youll be both strategist and builder: setting long-term vision while also delivering immediate impact. That means:

• Owning the recruiting funnel end-to-end: sourcing attraction evaluation negotiation and signed offers.
• Building a high-volume repeatable AI-driven recruiting engine that scales speed and selectivity together.
• Raising the bar by embedding rigor in every interview and test ensuring every hire makes the company stronger.
• Partnering with hiring managers analyzing outcomes and continuously refining the funnel to deliver compounding improvements.

What differentiates this role from traditional recruiting leadership is its core KPI: the caliber of talent hired not the headcount filled. Scaling matters only if quality rises in parallel. Your success will be measured in undeniable lasting improvements in team capability.

The philosophy of recruiting at is unapologetically demanding. We expect to run a funnel like elite college admissions or championship athletics: thousands of applicants enter only a handful make it through and every hire is a clear win. This isnt about keeping up with quotas. Its about building the kind of team that makes losing impossible.

Building The Recruiting Function of 2025

And were not looking for someone to run an old-school department. is building the recruiting function of 2025:

• AI at the Core: The early stages of sourcing and screening are automated with LLMs embeddings and custom-built integrations. Boolean searches and manual filtering are relics of the past.
• ATS Expertise: Our recruiting stack is anchored in Greenhouse where weve already invested thousands of hours in automation. Youll maximize it and push it further with AI integrations.
• Automation-First Mindset: Recruiting must scale without scaling headcount. Here automation isnt an add-on its the foundation.
• Employer Branding as Execution: You wont just say branding matters. Youll personally script compelling job posts design messaging that resonates and lead the creation of media that convinces candidates to join often literally since this role requires selling in-office work.

Cultural Expectations

Culturally we expect the VP of Recruiting to embody the same high standards demanded of our candidates:

• Hands-On Execution: This is not a PowerPoint role. Youll design automations experiment with sourcing bots write compelling copy and deliver early wins yourself.
• Durable Systems: Recruiting processes here are built to last. No hacks no duct tape.
• Hard-Nosed Against Fraud: From over-employed candidates working multiple jobs to remote hiring scams youll protect the integrity of our hiring funnel without compromise.
• Office-First Conviction: This role is based in our Austin TX office. While some roles at are remote our most critical seats are in-office. You must not only believe in this philosophy but also sell it authentically to candidates with credibility that comes from living it yourself.
• Obsessed With Documentation: is a writing-first company. We dont believe a system exists until it is thoroughly documented. Youll ensure every workflow rubric and playbook is captured in writing so it can be scaled audited and improved.

The impact of this role is impossible to overstate. The VP of Recruiting wont just fill jobs. Theyll build the dream team that powers into its next decade of growth. Every department every manager and every employee will feel the difference. If you succeed will succeed with a recruiting engine that consistently delivers the highest-caliber hires enhances our reputation with every candidate interaction and gives us an enduring edge over competitors.

For the right leader this is a career-defining opportunity: executive authority hands-on scope and the chance to design a recruiting machine that competitors will still be trying to copy years from now.

Why This Role is Different

• Recruiting That Decides the Future of the Company: At most companies recruiting takes orders from hiring managers. At recruiting sets the pace of growth. The hires you deliver will shape the trajectory of every team and your funnel will directly determine whether we beat much larger competitors.
• The Chance to Build the Recruiting Engine Everyone Else Will Copy: Elsewhere recruiting leaders spend their days fighting legacy systems and manual processes. Here youll build the recruiting engine of 2025: AI-first automated and ruthlessly efficient. Our Greenhouse ATS is already deeply integrated with AI youll push it further designing the model other companies will still be trying to imitate five years from now.
• Extreme Selectivity Not Quotas: In other companies success is measured by headcount filled. Here success means raising the bar. Youll run a funnel where thousands apply hundreds advance and only the best survive rigorous evaluation. Every hire you close will sharpen the team and give an unfair advantage. Instead of shuffling good enough candidates through the door youll curate a dream team youll be proud to say you built.
• An Executive Seat Thats Rare in Recruiting: At most companies recruiting leaders sit far from the table where decisions are made. Here this is one of a handful of VP roles in a profitable founder-led SaaS company. Youll work directly with the CEO and COO shaping the growth of every team and owning a company-defining function with true authority.

What Youll Actually Do

• Own the full recruiting funnel sourcing attraction screening evaluation negotiation and signed offers ensuring every stage operates at a world-class level.
• Build and scale an AI-first recruiting engine that sources thousands of candidates monthly automates early screening and reliably produces a pipeline of top-tier talent.
• Raise the caliber of every hire by setting an uncompromising bar developing statistically rigorous interview and testing processes and rejecting mediocrity.
• Engineer durable recruiting systems in Greenhouse (and beyond) that eliminate inefficiency multiply recruiter output and scale with growth. This means APIs AI/LLM integrations and real automation design.
• Partner deeply with hiring managers to co-create interview frameworks question banks and evaluation methods that surface true signal and consistently identify top performers.
• Drive employer branding execution from writing compelling job copy to shaping careers site content and guiding media that motivates top candidates to join our in-office culture.
• Continuously innovate with a Moneyball mindset finding overlooked signals of high performance that competitors miss and turning them into reliable selection advantages.
• Protect the integrity of hiring by aggressively filtering out fraudulent low-commitment or over-employed candidates.
• Document every system and process rigorously. At nothing exists until it is deeply documented. Youll ensure every workflow rubric and playbook is captured in writing so the recruiting engine can be scaled audited and improved.

What Success Looks Like

• The caliber of talent at measurably rises under your leadership.
• Recruiting runs as a high-volume AI-driven machine selective scalable and disciplined.
• Hiring managers trust recruiting as a partner that surfaces true signal and delivers the best.
• Employer branding consistently attracts top candidates excited to join our Austin office.
• Every process is documented durable and built to last.
• earns an enduring unfair advantage in the talent market because of the recruiting engine you built.

Perks & Benefits

100% Paid Health Dental & Vision (75% for family)
401(k) with 4% Company Match
Equity Grants for Every Employee
Paid Parental Leave
20 PTO Days 11 Holidays Full Company Winter Break
$1000 Signing Bonus Modern Apple Laptop Anniversary Gifts
Team Travel to NYC Austin Nashville San Diego and more

Bottom Line: This isnt about filling seats. Its about building a recruiting engine that creates a dream team and gives a lasting edge against larger competitors. If you want a VP role where recruiting is treated as the most important lever of growth and youre ready to design the system others will still be copying years from now this is the job.