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About the Role
Dispatch is seeking a Director, Talent Acquisition to lead the attraction, assessment, and hiring of outstanding individuals to support the company's purpose. This role is responsible for the entire hiring process, building upon the existing recruiting function to scale with the company while maintaining its culture. The Director will serve as a trusted advisor to leadership and hiring managers, lead a small recruiting team, and manage external partnerships.
Responsibilities
- Own the full hiring process from application through offer acceptance, ensuring efficiency, rigor, and consistency.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to hiring managers on role definition, sourcing strategy, interview design, candidate evaluation, and hiring decisions.
- Develop processes, tools, and training for candidate assessment and selection, including structured interview guides, scorecards, and interviewer training.
- Create a thoughtful, timely, and respectful candidate experience.
- Find and adopt AI tools to enhance the hiring process, ensuring human judgment remains central.
- Proactively identify talent for critical scientific, clinical, and technical roles and develop workforce plans.
- Lead the employer brand strategy in partnership with a creative and branding partner.
- Develop competitive offers considering base, bonus, and equity, and advise on compensation.
- Select and manage relationships with external partners such as search firms and immigration counsel.
- Develop and manage the annual talent acquisition budget.
- Own the applicant tracking system (Greenhouse) and define/report on hiring metrics.
- Build sourcing strategies to reach diverse talent pools and ensure compliance with employment laws.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- Minimum of 10 years of recruiting experience
- Significant in-house talent acquisition experience in biotech, pharmaceutical, or life sciences companies
- Demonstrated success recruiting across scientific, clinical, technical operations, and corporate functions, including senior and executive-level searches
- Experience building or scaling a talent acquisition function in a startup or high-growth environment
- Experience designing hiring processes, tools, and interviewer training
- Strong understanding of compensation, including base, bonus, and equity
- Experience building and negotiating competitive offers
- Experience selecting and managing external partners such as search firms and recruiting technology vendors
- Experience developing and managing a recruiting budget
- Hands-on experience with applicant tracking systems and LinkedIn Recruiter
- Comfort using data to measure and improve hiring outcomes
- Collaborative nature, geared toward cross-functional teamwork
- Credibility and influence to advise senior leaders and hiring managers
- Excellent organizational, problem-solving, and time management skills
- Ability to manage many searches and priorities simultaneously
- Positive attitude, dedicated work ethic, and flexible orientation for operating in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Demonstrated leadership skills, including the ability to communicate, coach, mentor, and develop employees
- Ability to give and receive feedback with clarity and kindness
Skills
- Talent Acquisition
- Recruiting
- Biotech Recruiting
- Pharmaceutical Recruiting
- Life Sciences Recruiting
- Scientific Recruiting
- Clinical Recruiting
- Technical Operations Recruiting
- Executive Recruiting
- Startup Recruiting
- High-Growth Recruiting
- Hiring Process Design
- Compensation Strategy
- Offer Negotiation
- Vendor Management
- Budget Management
- Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)
- LinkedIn Recruiter
- Data Analysis
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Leadership
- Coaching
- Mentoring
- Communication
- Problem-Solving
- Time Management
- Employer Branding
- AI Tools in Recruiting
- Employment Law Compliance
- Immigration Law
Location
- Philadelphia
- San Francisco Bay Area
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Director
- 10+ years of recruiting experience
- Significant in-house talent acquisition experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $190,000 - $275,000
Benefits
- Meaningful ownership through equity
- Excellent medical, vision, and dental coverage
- 401(k) with generous contribution
- Life insurance
- Flexible PTO policy
- Additional substantial benefits
About the Company
- Dispatch is dedicated to engineering a universal treatment across solid tumors to help create a world where all cancer patients can be cured.
- The company leverages first-in-class technologies in viral vectors, universal targets, and novel cytokine biology.
- Founded on pioneering work from leading researchers at University of Pennsylvania, University of California, San Francisco, Stanford University, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
- An early-stage company focused on scientific rigor, ownership, collaboration, and feedback.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer.
- We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, national origin, or any characteristic protected under applicable law.