Director of AI-Driven Talent Acquisition - Lehi HQ

Podium; Lehi (UT); On-site; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life insurance

Disability coverage

Paid maternity/paternity leave

Fertility benefits

Generous vacation time

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401k plan

Onsite HQ gym

Job summary

Podium, a leader in AI-powered local business communications, seeks a Director of Talent Acquisition to lead recruiting across geographies and functions. This role will mentor a high-performing team, partner with senior leaders, and build an AI-enabled recruitment function from our Lehi, Utah HQ.

You will own the executive recruiting lifecycle, develop scalable playbooks, and drive rapid, data-driven hiring across the organization.

Qualifications

• 7+ years recruiting experience, including experience leading leaders and building high-performing teams.
• Experience at a SaaS company of meaningful scale.
• Sales team mentality - you run recruiting like a revenue org: pipeline reviews, accountability, and hustle.
• You're data-driven - you run your function off metrics and use numbers to make every decision and coach your team.
• First principles thinking - if your instinct is to slow things down, look at best practices, and add unnecessary process, this isn't the right fit.
• Extreme urgency - you move fast, expect the same from your team, and don't let pipeline sit.
• AI fluency - you are currently using AI to improve recruiting outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Hire, coach, and develop a team of high-performing recruiting managers and individual contributors across all functions.
• Run a performance and data-driven recruiting team - drive pipeline, hold the team accountable to metrics, and move with extreme urgency.
• Partner closely with senior leadership to align recruiting strategy with business priorities. Oversee the recruiting lifecycle for executive-level positions internally and with external search partners, when needed.
• Build an AI-driven recruiting function.
• Build playbooks and processes that allow our recruiting function to scale.
• Get in the weeds - source candidates directly, own reqs when needed, and stay close to the work.
• Employer branding - build an employer brand that attracts the right talent.

Skills

Leadership in recruiting

SaaS recruiting

Data-driven recruiting

First principles thinking

Extreme urgency

AI in recruiting

Sales-like pipeline management

Job description

Podium, a leader in AI-powered local business communications, seeks a Director of Talent Acquisition to lead recruiting across geographies and functions. This role will mentor a high-performing team, partner with senior leaders, and build an AI-enabled recruitment function from our Lehi, Utah HQ.

You will own the executive recruiting lifecycle, develop scalable playbooks, and drive rapid, data-driven hiring across the organization.