Vapi

Recruiting Programs Manager

Vapi  •  $160k - $200k/yr  •  San Francisco, CA (Remote)  •  1 day ago
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Job Description

Voice AI that resolves, not transfers.

Most phone systems trap callers in menus and scripts. Vapi is the platform for deploying voice agents that know your business and can listen, adapt, and resolve in minutes.

  • The numbers: 1 billion calls. 1 million developers. 10x enterprise ARR growth

  • The customers: Amazon Ring, ServiceTitan, New York Life, Intuit, Kavak, and thousands more, from YC startups to the Fortune 500

  • The news: a $50M Series B led by Peak XV Partners, with Bessemer Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins, M12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund), Y Combinator, and our earlier backers. Total raised: $72M

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

Vapi

About Vapi

Vapi lets enterprises deploy human-like voice agents in minutes. Whether you’re building a voice product or trying to handle millions of calls, Vapi’s reliable infrastructure and flexible APIs make it easy.

Everyone from YC startups to Fortune 500 companies rely on Vapi because it is:

Flexible: Plug in your APIs, your customer data, your models

Scalable: Handle millions of calls with <500ms latency

Secure: LLM guardrails, HIPAA, SOC-2

Helping enterprises over this challenge, Vapi, has raised $20 million in Series A funding, led by Bessemer Venture Partners with participation from Abstract Ventures, AI Grant, Y Combinator, Saga Ventures, and Michael Ovitz.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Year Founded
2021
Website
vapi.ai
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