Senior Director, Talent Acquisition

The role

You will lead a team of six to eight recruiters and own the end-to-end talent acquisition strategy. You will build hiring roadmaps, manage recruiting analytics, and partner with Finance on capacity models and headcount planning.

What you will do

• Own talent acquisition strategy including sourcing, employer brand, process, and tooling
• Build a hiring roadmap alongside Finance and leadership
• Lead the hiring engine for complex GTM roles
• Partner with GTM leadership on ramp-readiness math
• Build and own recruiting analytics like time to fill and recruiter capacity
• Serve as the recruiting counterpart to Finance for capacity and demand models
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of recruiters
• Establish recruiting operations and coordination systems
• Build career paths for the TA function
• Grow early-career and intern programs

Required qualifications

• 10+ years in talent acquisition
• 4+ years leading and developing recruiting teams
• Deep GTM recruiting expertise
• Analytical fluency with experience building models and using Greenhouse
• Track record as a player-coach carrying requisitions while leading a team
• Demonstrated finance and business partnership
• Executive presence and influence
• Builder's orientation
• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent practical experience

Nice to have

• Experience at the Senior Director level in a high-growth environment
• Experience scaling a company through a Series B/C growth stage and/or experience leading through M&A or IPO phases
• Background hiring for hardware-plus-software or technical enterprise products
• Experience in standing up recruiting operations, ATS optimization, or a BI/reporting layer for talent
• Prior ownership of early-career, intern, or campus programs

Benefits

• 100% Paid Insurance: Health, Dental, Vision, Long/Short Term Disability, and Life Insurance for you and your dependents
• Generous Paid Time Off
• 401(k) Savings Plan + Company Match
• Baby Cash Reward + Paid Parental Leave
• Onsite fitness center with instructor-led classes, plus tennis, basketball, pickleball, and cycling
• Team Events & Culture
• Latest tech, standing desks, and all the tools and software you need to thrive

About the company

Relay is building the next generation of human-in-the-loop Physical AI. The Relay platform brings AI-native situational awareness, real-time operational intelligence, and automated decision support to frontline environments.