{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"45af70ecb4202f4eb28e3f8c","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/45af70ecb4202f4eb28e3f8c","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/45af70ecb4202f4eb28e3f8c","title":"Recruiting Programs Manager","description":"Voice AI that resolves, not transfers.\n\nMost phone systems trap callers in menus and scripts. Vapi is the platform for deploying voice agents that know your business and can listen, adapt, and resolve in minutes.\n\nThe numbers: 1 billion calls. 1 million developers. 10x enterprise ARR growth\n\nThe customers: Amazon Ring, ServiceTitan, New York Life, Intuit, Kavak, and thousands more, from YC startups to the Fortune 500\n\nThe news: a $50M Series B led by Peak XV Partners, with Bessemer Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins, M12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund), Y Combinator, and our earlier backers. Total raised: $72M\n\nVapi (/ˈVɑːpi/):\n\nVoice AI that resolves, not transfers\n\nPowering 1 billion calls for companies like Amazon Ring, Intuit, ServiceTitan, and New York Life\n\nTrusted by 1 million developers building the future of voice agents\n\nBacked by Peak XV, Bessemer, Kleiner Perkins, M12, Y Combinator, and more with $72M raised\n\nTry talking to Vapi now!\n\nWhy We’re Hiring This Role:\n\nWe're competing directly with Anthropic, OpenAI, and other high-profile AI companies for the same talent. At that level of competition, employer brand and a candidate-facing presence are part of how we win offers, not a nice-to-have.\n\nToday this work happens informally, absorbed by our Talent leaders on top of their day jobs. We're building the capability in-house with a dedicated owner instead of outsourcing it to an agency, or letting it not happen at all.\n\nYou'll own every candidate-facing program at Vapi: employer brand and careers content, technical events and community, the referral program, university and early-career pipeline, and our talent community. You'll report directly to our Head of Talent.\n\nWhat You’ll Do:\n\n30 Day: Go deep on how we hire today. Meet hiring managers, Recruiting, and Marketing's events lead; audit our careers site, Glassdoor/Comparably presence, referral program, and event footprint; baseline the numbers (cost-per-hire, referral %, sourced-hire %, time-to-fill, offer acceptance).\n\n60 Day: Ship the first wins. Relaunch the referral program with clear incentives, campaigns, and tracking toward 25–30% of hires via referral; stand up the shared event calendar with Marketing (and the monthly dedupe sync); publish your first wave of careers-site and “life at Vapi” content.\n\n90 Day: Run your first programs end-to-end. Host a recruiting-focused technical event (hackathon, meetup, or campus session); launch the talent community and nurture motion (newsletter, team spotlights, silver-medalist re-engagement); present a 12-month program roadmap with targets against your baseline.\n\nWho You Are:\n\nYou've built recruiting programs, employer brand, or talent community from scratch, ideally at a fast-growing startup competing for technical talent.\n\nYou're an events operator: you can run a hackathon, engineering meetup, or campus info session end-to-end, on time and on budget.\n\nYou think in recruiting metrics: cost-per-hire, referral %, sourced-hire %, time-to-fill, and offer acceptance are how you measure your own work.\n\nYou know the difference between marketing to customers and marketing to candidates, and you can partner tightly with a Marketing team without duplicating it.\n\nYou write well. Careers pages, newsletters, event copy, and team spotlights will all carry your voice.\n\nYou're a builder who's comfortable being the first and only owner of this function, going from zero to working programs fast.\n\nHow We Work:\n\nBuild something worthy of love\n\nCraft matters. We aim to build products and experiences customers genuinely love, not just tolerate.\n\nCommit and follow through\n\nWe finish what we start and build trust by being people others can count on.\n\nWhy not today?\n\nWe value urgency and momentum. The fastest path to customer value usually wins.\n\nSeek raw input\n\nWe go directly to customers, data, and teammates instead of relying on summaries or assumptions.\n\nIt’s our problem\n\nWe operate as one team. We share credit, own mistakes together, and support each other when things get hard.\n\nBe direct and kind\n\nWe give feedback clearly, respectfully, and without delay.\n\nWhy Vapi:\n\nGenerational impact: Build the human interface for every business\n\nOwnership culture: 70% of the company are previous founders\n\nKind team: The founders, Jordan and Nikhil, are Canadians\n\nTier-1 Investors: YC, KP seed, Bessemer Series A\n\nWhat We Offer:\n\nReal stake: We offer a competitive salary and excellent equity ownership\n\nComprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision plans\n\nTeam love: We love hanging out, and we do quarterly off-sites\n\nFlexible time off: take what you need\n\nMore: catered meals, transportation, gym, and a $10k annual L&D budget\n\nCompensation Range: $160K - $200K","company":"Vapi","rawCompany":"vapi","city":"Millbrae","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-22T11:30:14.197Z","occupations":[{"code":"13-1071.00","title":"Human Resources Specialists","slug":"human-resources-specialists"},{"code":"11-2021.00","title":"Marketing Managers","slug":"marketing-managers"},{"code":"11-9151.00","title":"Social and Community Service Managers","slug":"social-and-community-service-managers"}],"industries":[{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"561311","title":"Employment Placement Agencies","slug":"employment-placement-agencies"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Recruiting Programs Manager","description":"Voice AI that resolves, not transfers.\n\nMost phone systems trap callers in menus and scripts. 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Careers pages, newsletters, event copy, and team spotlights will all carry your voice.\n\nYou're a builder who's comfortable being the first and only owner of this function, going from zero to working programs fast.\n\nHow We Work:\n\nBuild something worthy of love\n\nCraft matters. We aim to build products and experiences customers genuinely love, not just tolerate.\n\nCommit and follow through\n\nWe finish what we start and build trust by being people others can count on.\n\nWhy not today?\n\nWe value urgency and momentum. The fastest path to customer value usually wins.\n\nSeek raw input\n\nWe go directly to customers, data, and teammates instead of relying on summaries or assumptions.\n\nIt’s our problem\n\nWe operate as one team. 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