Vice President of Talent Acquisition

Discord is hiring a Vice President of Talent Acquisition. You will lead the recruiting function with an emphasis on analytics that helps us find and empower diverse talent, employment branding and how we're positioning ourselves globally in a post-pandemic world, talent intelligence (and the mapping of our strategy to Discord's needs for each market), and an extraordinary candidate experience.

What you'll be doing

• Lead a motivated recruiting team. Hire and lead a team of leaders and individual contributors across full-cycle recruiting, and recruiting operations and programs
• Drive diversity programs for the company and build hiring goals. Build quarterly hiring goals with a focus on acquiring top diverse talent to meet our hiring needs
• Operationalize talent planning. Guide talent resource planning and forecasting. Use data to develop both short-term and long-term recruiting plans. Perform recruiting capacity planning and balance hiring resources (in-house, agency) to ensure the right resource allocation to support the global business
• Globalize our function. Scale our programs to support international growth, initially in Europe, but quickly to other regions as well
• Iterate our programs. Manage the development of recruiting programs including: interview guides, interviewer training, candidate assessment/calibration, referrals, internships and outreach recruiting. Develop programs that are creative, transformative, and support the long-term goals and vision of the company. Develop diversity and inclusion recruitment strategies and embed them into programs
• Improve efficiency at scale. Develop processes, and systems needed to grow and support recruiting at Discord to support our current hypergrowth, while balancing that with building a talent strategy
• Tell the Discord story. Partner with Marketing to focus on our employer brand and ensure that web presence, events, social and employer and job-related content reflect Discord's culture and values

What you should have

• 10+ years of experience in talent acquisition with experience in private and public companies
• Minimum 5+ years of people management experience; demonstrated ability to coach and develop talent
• Experience scaling a recruiting function during a period of very aggressive growth
• Experience leading employment branding strategies with partnership (eg. with Comms) and creative solutions to stand out amongst competition and lower awareness markets
• Experience using metrics and analytics to lead an anticipatory hiring model (eg. forecasting net and backfill hiring needs to ensure our team is resourced for the hiring needs)
• Experience with leading the TA strategy in high-growth geographically distributed tech organizations
• Expertise in adopting evidenced-based solutions that result in greater diversity and inclusion in hiring efforts (and, contrarily, resolving practices that inhibit D&I in those efforts). Adept at directly challenging leaders on their role here and how to improve
• An understanding of the highly competitive and evolving (eg. remote work) talent markets
• Willingness to roll up sleeves, embracing a dynamic and high-growth environment
• An unyielding passion to provide the ultimate candidate experience
• Experience designing and communicating clear processes, and a detail-oriented yet flexible approach to problem-solving
• Strong point of view on how diversity and inclusion contribute to a company's success, experience leading teams to achieve diversity recruiting goals, and experience working with all partners

We'd love your help. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

Discord is an equal opportunity employer committed to promoting an inclusive work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We value diversity, inclusion, and aim to provide a sense of belonging for everyone.

New York City residents only: Minimum salary of $290,000/year + equity and benefits*Note: Disclosure as required by NYC Pay Transparency Law

Colorado residents only: Minimum salary of $261,000/year + equity and benefits*Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20).

Bonus Points

• A passion for building community and an understanding of Discord’s mission and values

Benefits and Perks

• Comprehensive medical insurance including Health, Dental and Vision (plus up to $20,000 for gender affirmation procedures)
• Mental health resources and quarterly wellness stipends
• 16+ paid holidays, 4 weeks of PTO + use-what-you-need sick days
• Paid parental leave (plus fertility, adoption and other family planning benefits)
• Flexible long-term work options (remote and hybrid)
• Volunteer time off
• A diverse slate of Employee Resource Groups
• Plus commuter contributions and other perks for office-based employees

About Us

Discord is a voice, video and text app that helps friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests — from artists and activists, to study groups, sneakerheads, plant parents, and more. With 150 million monthly users across 19 million active communities, called servers, Discord has grown to become one of the most popular communications services in the world. Discord was built without selling ads or user data and instead, offers a premium subscription called Nitro that gives users special perks like higher quality streams and fun customizations.

We’re working toward an inclusive world where no one feels like an outsider, where genuine human connection is a click, text chat, or voice call away. A place where everyone can find belonging. Challenging? Heck yes. Rewarding? Double heck yes. It’s a mission that gives us the chance to positively impact millions of people all over the world. So if this strikes a chord with you, come build belonging with us!