VP of Talent Acquisition

About Apollo

Founded in 2015, Apollo is a leading sales intelligence and engagement platform trusted by over 15,000 paying customers, from rapidly growing startups to the largest global enterprises. Our platform unifies a database of 200 million business contacts with advanced intelligence and engagement tools, to help over 500,000 sales, marketing, and recruiting professionals to connect with the right person at the right time with the right message, at speed and scale.

In the last year, we've grown ARR 3x, quadrupled our active users, maintained profitability 18 out of the past 20 months, and recently closed a $110M Series C led by Sequoia Capital to fuel the next phase of our growth.

Working at Apollo

We are a remote-first inclusive organization focused on operational excellence. Our way of working ensures clear expectations and an environment to do your best work with ample reward.

The Role

As the VP of Talent Acquisition you will be responsible for guiding and scaling the team, driving our global recruiting strategy, ensuring our recruiting practices are grounded in data and insights, and setting the vision for the future. Operating as a trusted advisor and recruiting expert to Apollo leaders, you will advise, optimize and iterate on existing processes to enable all hiring teams to be successful.

As a key member of the executive leadership team, you will lead the function with analytical rigor, a dedication to amazing candidate experience, inclusive hiring practices, and continue to build for scale.

Responsibilities:

• Create, steer, and evolve a broad talent strategy that aligns with Apollo's priorities and that anticipates the needs of the business and growth.
• Act as a key business partner to provide Apollo leadership with thought leadership on recruiting philosophy, process and tooling to meet business objectives.
• Build, manage, coach, empower, and develop a high-performing geographically dispersed team hiring across multiple geographies.
• Build out best-in-class recruiting engine and operating model complete with extensive knowledge base of all things sourcing, screening, and selecting the best candidates in the market.
• Develop thoughtful organizational design and quantitatively driven processes to scale Apollo's hiring.
• Define and measure recruiting KPIs for the Talent team and consistently use a data-driven approach to drive initiatives, set appropriate metrics for the team, and to help execute on broader org-wide strategies.
• Generate creative sourcing strategies and works closely with the team to develop the best approach for hiring world class talent.
• Work to elevate Apollo's employment brand in the market.
• Review deliverables and team objectives on weekly, monthly and quarterly basis to ensure team is set-up for success
• Anticipate and minimize risks in all facets of the recruitment process and operating model.
• Work cross-functionally to effectively develop plans and drive projects from root cause analysis through to deployment, effectively & on-time.

Qualifications:

• Experience creating, driving, and evolving a global talent acquisition strategy that anticipates the business priorities and needs as we grow in scale and efficiency.
• 12+ years of talent acquisition experience (technical, GTM, and G&A recruiting)
• Deep experience building and leading high performing Recruiting teams as well as a passion for mentorship and seeing recruiters flourish.
• Experience leading a 20+ person team, managing directors/managers.
• Exceptional interpersonal, teamwork, and organizational skills and ability to interact effectively at all levels and across diverse cultures. Comfortable partnering with senior leadership and management teams on hiring initiatives.
• Strong understanding of the recruiting landscape across both tech and business roles.
• Commitment to elite candidate experience.
• Exceptional communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills, including humility, empathy, and playfulness with the ability to break down complex concepts and clearly articulate them internally and externally.
• Analytical mindset and a track record of building robust data-driven recruiting teams and cultures.
• Strong track record of effectively influencing, communicating, and building strong partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.

What You'll Love About Apollo

Besides the great compensation package and culture that thrives in openness and excellence, we invest tremendous effort into developing our remote employees' careers. The team embraces that we have a sole purpose: to help customers maximize their full revenue potential on the Apollo platform. This mindset opens us up to a lot of creative approaches to making customers successful at scale. You'll be a significant part of a lean, remote team, empowered to really own your role as a proactive educator. We're very collaborative at Apollo, so you'll be able to lean on your teammates, even in adjacent departments, to help you achieve lofty goals. You'll be supported and encouraged to experiment and take educated risks that lead to big wins. And, you'll have a whole team remotely by your side to help you do it!