Director of Business Recruiting

Engine

5d • $169,100 - $234,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Engine is transforming business travel by creating a seamless platform that integrates corporate travel, a charge card, and modern spend management. They are seeking mission-driven individuals to redefine how businesses manage and experience travel. Engine is a rapidly growing, cash flow positive company backed by major investors, recognized for its innovation in travel and fintech. The company supports over 20,000 companies and 1 million travelers, handling billions in annual bookings.

This role is for a Director of Business Recruiting who will lead, mature, and scale the recruiting function for critical business areas including Sales, Account Management, Growth Marketing, Partnerships, Supply, GTM Operations, Operations, Automation, Finance, and People. The individual will develop and implement hiring strategies to attract top talent, enhance the employer brand, and ensure an excellent candidate experience. This role involves acting as a talent advisor to senior leaders, driving talent density, predictable hiring, and strong organizational health.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in talent acquisition with progressive leadership responsibility, business and GTM recruiting experience strongly preferred.
• Deep understanding of hiring across Sales, Marketing, Operations, Finance, People, and business operations functions.
• Proven track record of building and scaling recruiting teams in high growth environments.
• Strong data driven mindset with experience using recruiting metrics and analytics to inform decisions.
• Excellent coaching, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with modern ATS and recruiting technologies such as Ashby, Greenhouse, Metaview, Brighthire, Covey, and Gem.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of comprehensive talent acquisition strategies across Sales, Account Management, Growth Marketing, Partnerships, Supply, GTM Operations, Operations, Automation, Finance, and People.
• Provide data driven insights and reporting that inspire decision making and behavior change to improve hiring outcomes.
• Partner with business and functional leaders on workforce planning, capacity models, role prioritization, and hiring roadmaps aligned with company goals.
• Advise leaders and hiring managers on market trends, compensation structures, candidate expectations, and recruiting practices across business functions.
• Own and evolve full cycle recruiting processes from sourcing through onboarding, with an emphasis on speed, quality, and candidate experience.
• Define, track, and report hiring metrics such as time to fill, pipeline health, source effectiveness, diversity goals, and hiring efficiency to senior leadership.
• Continuously refine recruiting workflows, tools, and systems to support scale and complexity across business teams.
• Build, lead, and mentor a high performing team of recruiters supporting GTM and business functions.
• Provide coaching, training, and development to improve recruiting effectiveness, assessment quality, and candidate engagement.
• Partner with cross functional leaders in People, Finance, Operations, and Business Operations to drive consistency, collaboration, and scalable talent practices.
• Elevate Engine’s employer brand across sales, growth, operations, finance, and people talent communities.
• Ensure a world class candidate experience through clear communication, structured feedback, and efficient hiring processes.
• Represent the company at industry events, conferences, and business focused talent initiatives.
• Lead the thoughtful integration of AI and automation into daily recruiting workflows to increase efficiency, accuracy, and hiring quality.
• Evaluate and implement AI powered tools across sourcing, screening, scheduling, candidate assessment, and pipeline management while maintaining a human centered hiring experience.
• Train and enable recruiting teams to effectively adopt AI tools, using data and experimentation to continuously improve outcomes.
• Measure the impact of AI driven solutions on time to fill, quality of hire, candidate experience, recruiter productivity, and business impact.

Benefits

• Competitive base pay tied to role and experience, with opportunities for bonuses, commissions, and equity.
• Check out our full list at engine.com/culture.
• Hybrid-hub model: Whether you are in one of our amazing offices or fully remote, we’ll make sure you have what you need to succeed.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed