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title: 'Recruiting Programs Manager at Vapi'
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# Recruiting Programs Manager at Vapi

- **Company:** Vapi
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $160k–$200k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/vapi/9be1cfc8-e586-4875-bb63-6b5dc373652b

## Job description

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! https://vapi.ai/

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! https://vapi.ai/

## 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

## About Vapi

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Vapi is a developer platform for building, deploying, and managing enterprise-grade voice AI agents.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, $72M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Jordan Dearsley and Nikhil Gupta

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Voice AI Infrastructure / Developer Tools
- **Target customers**: B2B, primarily Large Enterprises (e.g., Amazon Ring, Intuit, New York Life) and a self-serve developer platform for SMBs.
- **Mission or purpose**: To provide the infrastructure and orchestration layer for companies to build and deploy voice agents that deliver high-quality outcomes at scale.

## Products & Services
- **[Vapi Platform]**: An API-first platform that provides the core infrastructure for building, testing, and deploying voice AI agents. It handles speech-to-text, AI orchestration, and text-to-speech, with sub-500ms latency. It supports two main primitives:
    - **Assistants**: Single-agent setups for specific tasks like customer support, lead qualification, and booking.
    - **Squads**: Multi-agent orchestration for complex workflows with context-preserving transfers (e.g., medical triage, e-commerce routing).
- **[Vapi CLI]**: A command-line tool that brings the full power of the Vapi platform to a developer's terminal for rapid iteration and deployment.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: ~$500 million (post-money, as of May 2026)
- **Key Metric**: Annual recurring revenue (ARR) is in the "healthy" eight figures. Total funding is $72 million.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**:
    - **Lead Series B**: Peak XV Partners
    - **Other Investors**: Microsoft's M12, Kleiner Perkins, Bessemer Venture Partners
    - **Key Customer**: Amazon Ring, which routes 100% of its inbound calls through Vapi after evaluating over 40 competitors.
    - **Other Enterprise Customers**: Kavak, Instawork, New York Life, UnityAI, Cherry, Intuit.
- **Growth Signals**:
    - Handled over **1 billion** calls since launch, processing between **1 million and 5 million calls per day**.
    - Over **1 million developers** have used the self-serve platform.
    - More than **750,000 agents** have been launched on the platform.
    - Won Amazon Ring, a high-profile enterprise customer, in late 2024.
    - Active job postings are growing (+20.8% quarterly).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Enterprise-Grade Infrastructure**: Offers sub-500ms latency, built-in AI guardrails, SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI compliance, single sign-on (SSO), OAuth2, and role-based access control (RBAC).
- **Developer-First, Then Enterprise**: The platform was battle-tested at significant scale through its self-serve developer community before signing major enterprise clients, giving it a robustness that competitors lack.
- **Granular Control**: Provides enterprises with deep control over the behavior, reliability, and compliance of their AI agents, which was a key factor in winning Amazon Ring's business.
- **Scalability**: Proven to handle massive volume (billions of calls) with a 99.9% uptime SLA for enterprise clients.

## Strategic Focus
- **Hiring for Scale**: The company is actively expanding its engineering, infrastructure, and go-to-market teams to capitalize on its growth.
- **Deepening Enterprise Penetration**: Following the win with Amazon Ring, Vapi is focused on onboarding more large, complex enterprises.
- **Infrastructure over Application**: Vapi aims to differentiate by being the underlying orchestration and reliability layer for voice AI, rather than a pre-packaged application.

## Why Work Here
- **High-Impact, Fast-Growing**: Vapi is at the center of the booming voice AI space, processing billions of calls and serving iconic companies like Amazon. Employees have a direct impact on a platform that is reshaping customer service.
- **Engineering Culture**: The company is API-first and developer-centric, founded by engineers from the University of Waterloo and Y Combinator.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: The company appears to have a hybrid model, with roles listed in New York City (NYC) and likely San Francisco, but also offers a degree of flexibility.
- **Notable Perks/Culture**: The company is still in a high-growth phase (around 100 employees), offering the opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI infrastructure with a strong focus on engineering excellence and deployment support. The team includes a "Forward Deployed" engineer role, indicating a culture of deep customer partnership.

## Sources
1. [vapi.ai](https://vapi.ai/)
2. [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/vapi-hits-500m-valuation-as-amazon-ring-chose-its-ai-platform-over-40-rivals/)
3. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/vapi-ai)
4. [docs.vapi.ai](https://docs.vapi.ai/)

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