Talent Acquisition Manager

UNKNOWN; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Deepgram is seeking a hands-on leader for Talent Acquisition to drive our recruiting strategy across the company. You will lead a team of recruiters, partner with engineering, research, and go-to-market teams, and own day-to-day execution to build high-impact pipelines for critical roles.

You will champion AI-native sourcing and screening workflows, optimize hiring processes with data, and mentor your team to raise hiring standards across the organization.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of recruiting experience, including leadership or managing recruiters.
• Experience hiring across technical and go-to-market functions in a high-growth tech/AI company.
• Experience recruiting for engineering and/or research roles.
• Hands-on with modern recruiting tools such as Ashby, Metaview, and Juicebox.
• Built AI-assisted recruiting workflows or automation that improved team performance.

Responsibilities

• Manage a recruiting team—sets priorities, coaches performance, and drives outcomes.
• Run full-cycle recruiting across the company, stepping into sourcing, interviewing, and closing when needed.
• Operate AI-native recruiting workflows, integrating Human+AI in sourcing, screening, and pipeline operations.
• Build scalable recruiting systems by identifying recurring work and creating processes and tooling.
• Use data to diagnose funnel health, capacity, and conversion, addressing root causes rather than adding process.
• Develop people with clear expectations, feedback, and career growth within the team.
• Raise hiring quality by coaching managers on structured interviews and sound decision-making.

Skills

Recruiting leadership

Tech recruiting

Go-to-market recruiting

Engineering recruiting

AI recruiting tools

Automation workflows

Tools

Ashby

Metaview

Juicebox

Job description

Company Overview

Deepgram is the leading platform underpinning the emerging trillion-dollar Voice AI economy, providing real-time APIs for speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS), and building production-grade voice agents at scale. More than 200,000 developers and 1,300+ organizations build voice offerings that are ‘Powered by Deepgram’, including Twilio, Cloudflare, Sierra, Decagon, Vapi, Daily, Cresta, Granola, and Jack in the Box. Deepgram’s voice-native foundation models are accessed through cloud APIs or as self-hosted and on-premises software, with unmatched accuracy, low latency, and cost efficiency. Backed by a recent Series C led by leading global investors and strategic partners, Deepgram has processed over 50,000 years of audio and transcribed more than 1 trillion words. There is no organization in the world that understands voice better than Deepgram.

Company Operating Rhythm

At Deepgram, we expect an AI-first mindset—AI use and comfort aren’t optional, they’re core to how we operate, innovate, and measure performance.

Every team member who works at Deepgram is expected to actively use and experiment with advanced AI tools, and even build your own into your everyday work. We measure how effectively AI is applied to deliver results, and consistent, creative use of the latest AI capabilities is key to success here. Candidates should be comfortable adopting new models and modes quickly, integrating AI into their workflows, and continuously pushing the boundaries of what these technologies can do.

Additionally, we move at the pace of AI. Change is rapid, and you can expect your day-to-day work to evolve just as quickly. This may not be the right role if you’re not excited to experiment, adapt, think on your feet, and learn constantly, or if you’re seeking something highly prescriptive with a traditional 9-to-5.

Team Overview

Talent Acquisition is how Deepgram's gets built. Our ability to move quickly in voice AI depends on bringing in exceptional people at the pace the business needs.

You’ll lead a team of recruiters and own the day-to-day execution of recruiting across the company. You’ll partner closely with recruiters and hiring managers across engineering, research, and go-to-market to set priorities, build strong pipelines, and make sure the team is delivering against the roles that matter most.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You’ll coach the team, remove blockers, improve how we operate, and step into searches.

What you'll get to do

• Manages a recruiting team — sets priorities, manages capacity, coaches performance, and holds the team accountable for outcomes
• Runs full-cycle recruiting — can personally step into sourcing, interviewing, closing, and complex searches when needed
• Operates AI-native — builds Human+AI workflows into sourcing, screening, research, and pipeline operations rather than treating AI as an add-on
• Builds scalable recruiting systems — identifies recurring work and creates processes, automation, and tooling that eliminate it
• Uses data to diagnose problems — understands funnel health, capacity, and conversion, and gets to the root cause rather than adding more process
• Develops people — gives direct feedback, creates clear expectations, supports career growth, and raises the capability of the team
• Raises the quality of hiring — coaches hiring managers on structured interviewing, drives strong decision-making, and is comfortable challenging senior stakeholders

What you bring

• Typically 5–8 years of recruiting experience, including experience leading or managing recruiters, or equivalent demonstrated experience
• Experience hiring across technical and go-to-market functions in a high-growth technology or AI company
• Experience recruiting for engineering and/or research roles
• Hands-on experience with modern recruiting tools such as Ashby, Metaview, and Juicebox
• Has built AI-assisted recruiting workflows or automation that meaningfully improved how a recruiting team operates

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