# Director, Talent Acquisition

**Company:** [Fieldguide](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fieldguide)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Recruiting
**Salary:** $190k – $240k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Ashby, Ai Sourcing, Ai Screening, Recruiting Dashboards, Linkedin Recruiting, Employer Branding, Global Recruiting, Talent Pipelines, AI Workflows, Recruiting Metrics
**Posted:** 2026-04-20

> Leads and scales a global talent acquisition team for rapid company growth from 150 to 600+ employees, building recruiting systems, employer brand, and AI-powered operations. Requires 10+ years experience leading TA at high-growth AI/SaaS firms, with executive influence and hands-on AI tooling expertise.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do

### Team Leadership and Development
- Build, coach, and lead a high-performing, globally distributed talent acquisition team
- Create a culture of ownership, data-driven continuous improvement, and high standards across the recruiting function, balancing speed and quality as the company scales
- Act as a trusted advisor to founders, executives, and hiring managers, guiding hiring decisions and tradeoffs with sound judgment, market knowledge, and data
- Use AI to synthesize pipeline data, team performance signals, and market intelligence into clear leadership briefings

### Employer Brand and Talent Marketing
- Contribute to the build of a compelling employer brand that clearly articulates Fieldguide's mission, culture, and value proposition to attract top talent
- Design candidate experiences that reflect who Fieldguide is: technically rigorous, values-driven, and genuinely differentiated
- Partner with Marketing and People Ops to bring the Fieldguide story to life across channels, including LinkedIn, job boards, community events, campus programs, and more

### Systems, Tooling, and AI-Powered Operations
- Continuously improve recruiting processes, tools, and vendor relationships to support growth and efficiency, with AI as a default accelerant
- Partner with People Operations on live recruiting dashboards that give leaders real-time visibility into pipeline health, hiring velocity, offer conversion, and quality of hire
- Define and track meaningful recruiting metrics that surface bottlenecks, inform tradeoffs, and demonstrate the function's business impact
- Stay current on market trends, particularly in technical, AI, and hard-to-hire talent areas

## Who You Are (Must-Haves)
- **Recruiting Leadership at Scale**: 10+ years of talent acquisition experience, including leading teams at high-growth AI or SaaS startups. Scaled organizations from early days to 600+ employees.
- **Executive Influence**: Proven ability to partner with and influence founders, executives, and senior leaders on hiring strategy and execution.
- **Global Hiring Expertise**: Demonstrated success designing and executing end-to-end global recruiting strategies across geographies.
- **Employer Brand Building**: Experience building employer branding or talent marketing initiatives that moved the needle on candidate quality and offer acceptance.
- **Team Development**: Experience building, developing, and retaining high-performing talent acquisition teams.
- **Recruiting Systems and Tooling**: Strong background in building scalable recruiting processes, AI tooling; hands-on experience with **Ashby** is a strong plus.
- **International Expansion**: Experience supporting new market entry and building recruiting infrastructure in regions new to the company.
- **AI-Native**: AI embedded in how you work; built repeatable, AI-powered recruiting workflows with measurable impact.

**Bonus Points**
- Experience hiring for technical AI/ML roles in a competitive San Francisco market
- Hands-on experience with AI sourcing or screening tools

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