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Hiring exceptional people is the highest-priority activity at the company, not a support function, and the founding team treats it that way.\n\nToday the founding team defines what great looks like, targets exceptional candidates, assesses them rigorously, and personally closes them - with external recruiters executing much of that work. You turn that founder-led model into a world-class internal function.\n\nThis is a player-coach role. You personally lead the most important searches while building the team, systems, and referral engine around you.\n\nPartner directly with the founding team and every hiring manager at Dispatch.\n\nWhat you'll own:\nIn-House Recruiting Function - Build the internal team, systems, and operating cadence that execute Dispatch's hiring model at scale. Source, hire, and manage a small team of exceptional recruiters who operate with high judgment, urgency, and ownership.\n\nHiring Manager Partnership - Define what exceptional looks like for each role, sharpen search strategy, and hold a consistently high bar. Make our leaders measurably better at hiring - how they scope roles, interview, assess, reference, sell, and close.\n\nCritical Searches - Personally source, engage, assess, reference, and close senior and hard-to-fill candidates.\n\nA Referral Culture - Build a systematic motion for activating the networks of our employees, investors, customers, advisors, and broader community - and make bringing in great people something everyone at Dispatch understands as part of their job, not a bonus program.\n\nLong-Term Talent Relationships - Find the best people in our markets whether or not a role is open, develop them as candidates over months and years, and create a place for them at Dispatch when they're ready.\n\nExternal Search Partners - Work with best-in-class search firms on select executive and specialized searches where they bring differentiated access or expertise.\n\nExperience & Background:\n10+ years in recruiting, including senior leadership as a VP of Talent, Head of Talent, or equivalent at a high-growth B2B SaaS or technology company.\n5+ years personally sourcing, assessing, and closing executive and hard-to-find talent as an individual contributor\n\n4+ years building and managing teams of recruiters\n\nExperience at an early-stage startup - ideally Series B or earlier, or fewer than 100 people at time of joining.\n\nTrack record building or materially scaling an internal recruiting function through a period of significant company growth, including hiring and developing the recruiters who did the work.\n\nBackground in executive search, agency recruiting, or another external search environment, with deep proactive sourcing and candidate development skills.\n\nExperience partnering directly with founders and executives on high-stakes searches, and building referral programs and other network-driven sources of talent.\n\nCharacteristics:\nJudgment Over Process - You assess people accurately and fast, and you ask the question that reveals whether someone is actually exceptional. You have the credibility to challenge senior leaders when needed, and the business judgment to know when it's worth it.\n\nCloser's Urgency - You move on great candidates in days, not weeks. You go after the person who isn't looking, and you don't lose someone you should have won.\n\nRecruiter at Heart - You love recruiting as a craft, not as a stepping stone to a broader people role. You're still sourcing, still on the phone, still in the details of a pipeline review.\n\nPlayer-Coach - You take the hardest searches yourself so your team can focus, and you own the outcomes either way. Your recruiters get real ownership of their own searches.\n\nBuilds the Machine - You document thoroughly, keep the pipeline honest, and turn open loops into closed ones. The function runs better every quarter - without process becoming overhead.\n\nLow Ego, High Trust - You're direct, kind, and easy to tell the truth to. Hiring managers bring you their hardest problems because you make them better rather than making them wrong.\n\nYou'll stand out if you have:\nExperience recruiting enterprise go-to-market and engineering roles at the same time\n\nExperience hiring in financial services or another regulated market\n\nComfort using AI tools to accelerate sourcing, screening, and market research\n\nExperience standing up an ATS, scorecards, and recruiting analytics from scratch\n\nHow We Hire:\nAt Dispatch, we hire people who are smart, exceptional at their craft, highly driven, able to get things done, and good humans to work with. Hiring is the highest-priority work at the company. We expect hiring managers to be deeply involved in building their teams, and the best recruiting happens when Talent and business leaders operate as true partners. The VP of Talent's job is to scale that model - better market intelligence, stronger pipelines, better systems, and more leverage - while preserving the judgment and high standards that define how Dispatch hires today.\nWhy work at Dispatch?\nWe’re a highly experienced team with a track record of successfully building together. 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