Director, Talent Acquisition

Who We Are

Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators around the world. With 33 global cloud data center locations, Vultr is trusted by hundreds of thousands of active customers across 185 countries for its flexible, scalable, global Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, and Cloud Storage solutions. In December 2024 Vultr announced an equity financing at a $3.5 billion valuation. Founded by David Aninowsky and self-funded for over a decade, Vultr has grown to become the world’s largest privately-held cloud infrastructure company.

Vultr Cares

• 100% company-paid insurance premiums for employee medical, dental and vision plans.

• 401(k) plan that matches 100% up to 4%, with immediate vesting

• Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500 each year

• 11 Holidays + Paid Time Off Accrual + Rollover Plan

• Commitment matters to Vultr! Increased PTO at 3 year and 10 year anniversary + 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years + Anniversary Bonus each year

• $500 stipend for remote office setup in first year + $400 each following year

• Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month

• Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month

• Company paid Wellable subscription

Join Vultr

We are seeking a high-performing Director, Talent Acquisition to own and scale Vultr’s global recruiting engine during a period of rapid hypergrowth. This leader will be responsible for building a sourcing-driven, high-velocity recruiting organization capable of supporting aggressive hiring goals across all corporate roles, while ensuring quality, speed, and consistency in hiring outcomes.

This role will lead all aspects of recruiting strategy and execution, including outbound and inbound recruiting, sourcing, recruiting operations, and coordination. The ideal candidate has built and scaled recruiting teams in high-growth, technical environments and thrives in driving both operational excellence and measurable hiring outcomes.

You’ll work closely with executive leadership to forecast hiring demand, design scalable recruiting systems, and ensure Vultr can consistently attract and hire top-tier talent globally.

What to expect:

• Own the end-to-end Talent Acquisition strategy, execution, and performance across the organization

• Build and scale a high-performing recruiting organization across outbound, inbound, sourcing, recruiting operations, and coordination

• Drive sourcing-led hiring strategy with a focus on improving passive candidate penetration and hiring quality

• Partner with executive leadership to forecast hiring demand, prioritize requisitions, and align recruiting capacity to business needs

• Establish and manage recruiting KPIs including time-to-fill, time-to-first-qualified candidate, pipeline health, sourcing conversion, and hiring output

• Ensure recruiting operations infrastructure (ATS, reporting, workflows, dashboards) enables scalable and data-driven hiring decisions

• Improve recruiter productivity and efficiency through process design, tooling, and operating model improvements

• Build strong hiring manager engagement practices to improve speed, quality, and consistency of hiring decisions

• Oversee recruiting operations and ensure data integrity, reporting accuracy, and operational rigor

• Lead workforce planning efforts in partnership with HR, Finance, and business leaders

• Hire, coach, and develop a high-performing recruiting team of at least 15+ team members and growing

• Continuously improve candidate experience and employer brand perception in key talent markets

Our ideal candidate will have:

• 7+ years of progressive recruiting experience, including leadership of recruiting teams in high-growth environments

• Proven experience scaling recruiting functions supporting high-volume technical and operational hiring

• Strong experience leading recruiting organizations across both inbound and sourcing-led models, with a bias toward designing and scaling sourcing-first hiring systems in high-growth environments

• Experience managing multi-layer recruiting teams (recruiters, sourcers, recruiting ops, coordinators)

• Deep understanding of recruiting metrics, funnel analytics, and workforce planning

• Experience building recruiting systems, processes, and operational frameworks at scale

• Strong executive presence with demonstrated experience influencing senior leadership on hiring strategy, workforce planning, and talent prioritization in high-growth environments.

• Experience with modern ATS platforms (Ashby strongly preferred) and recruiting analytics tools

• Strong ability to balance strategic leadership with operational execution

• Excellent communication, organizational, and stakeholder management skills

• Experience in cloud infrastructure, data center, engineering, or similarly technical environments strongly preferred

Compensation

$150,000 - $175,000 + Quarterly Variable Bonus

Final compensation will vary depending on years of experience, background/skill set, location, and applicable laws.

Inclusion & Privacy

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and experiences, and we prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status under applicable laws. Vultr will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with applicable laws and will not conduct a background check until after an offer of employment has been extended and accepted.

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