Recruiting Programs Manager

vapi — San Francisco, US — cdi

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Published on 19 August 2026 · first appeared in our records on 3 September 2026.

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Advertised salary: 10000 USD.

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Vapi (/ˈVɑːpi/): • Voice AI that resolves, not transfers • Powering 1 billion calls for companies like Amazon Ring, Intuit, ServiceTitan, and New York Life • Trusted by 1 million developers building the future of voice agents • Backed by Peak XV, Bessemer, Kleiner Perkins, M12, Y Combinator, and more with $72M raised • Try talking to Vapi now! Vapi (/ˈVɑːpi/): • Voice AI that resolves, not transfers • Powering 1 billion calls for companies like Amazon Ring, Intuit, ServiceTitan, and New York Life • Trusted by 1 million developers building the future of voice agents • Backed by Peak XV, Bessemer, Kleiner Perkins, M12, Y Combinator, and more with $72M raised • Try talking to Vapi now! Why We’re Hiring This Role: • We'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. • Today 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. • You'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. What You’ll Do: • 30 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). • 60 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. • 90 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. Who You Are: • You've built recruiting programs, employer brand, or talent community from scratch, ideally at a fast-growing startup competing for technical talent. • You're an events operator: you can run a hackathon, engineering meetup, or campus info session end-to-end, on time and on budget. • You think in recruiting metrics: cost-per-hire, referral %, sourced-hire %, time-to-fill, and offer acceptance are how you measure your own work. • You know the difference between marketing to customers and marketing to candidates, and you can partner tightly with a Marketing team without duplicating it. • You write well. Careers pages, newsletters, event copy, and team spotlights will all carry your voice. • You're a builder who's comfortable being the first and only owner of this function, going from zero to working programs fast. How We Work: • Build something worthy of love • Craft matters. We aim to build products and experiences customers genuinely love, not just tolerate. • Commit and follow through • We finish what we start and build trust by being people others can count on. • Why not today? • We value urgency and momentum. The fastest path to customer value usually wins. • Seek raw input • We go directly to customers, data, and teammates instead of relying on summaries or assumptions. • It’s our problem • We operate as one team. We share credit, own mistakes together, and support each other when things get hard. • Be direct and kind • We give feedback clearly, respectfully, and without delay. Why Vapi: • Generational impact : Build the human interface for every business • Ownership culture : 70% of the company are previous founders • Kind team : The founders, Jordan and Nikhil, are Canadians • Tier-1 Investors : YC, KP seed, Bessemer Series A What We Offer: • Real stake : We offer a competitive salary and excellent equity ownership • Comprehensive health coverage : medical, dental, and vision plans • Team love : We love hanging out, and we do quarterly off-sites • Flexible time off : take what you need • More : catered meals, transportation, gym, and a $10k annual L&D budget