Senior Manager, Talent

Volition Capital • Boston, MA

13d • Onsite

About The Position

Volition Capital is seeking a Senior Manager, Talent to support executive hiring across its approximately 40 portfolio companies, as well as internal hiring for the firm itself. This role provides leverage to the SVP, Talent & Human Resources by taking on significant responsibilities within the talent function. The position involves supporting portfolio company executive searches (VP and C-suite roles) from initial scoping to offer, including building scorecards, structuring interview processes, and developing candidate-specific questions. The successful candidate will work closely with the SVP, receiving direct coaching and review, and will also partner daily with Volition's Recruiter. Beyond searches, this role will support internal hiring, HR program development, and operational execution for the talent function, acting as a key support to the SVP.

Requirements

• 4+ years in talent or HR, with real time inside a growth-stage, VC-, or PE-backed company — not agency-only.
• Has supported or run VP-level searches end-to-end, with specific outcomes you can point to.
• Operates with real ownership — makes sound calls independently, and sharpens fast with senior input.
• Thrives in a fast-paced, metrics-driven environment; treats searches-per-quarter and hire quality as a personal scoreboard.
• Proactively updates stakeholders — CEOs, board members, internal Volition staff — without being chased for status.
• Working fluency in growth equity or venture dynamics, or the speed to pick it up fast.
• Systems thinker: has used a scorecard, interview structure, or reference framework and trusts process over instinct.
• Communication that flexes by audience, from a Managing Partner brief to a candidate outreach note.

Responsibilities

• Run portfolio company executive searches — VP and C-suite roles — from JD and scorecard through offer, with Chris's direct coaching and review at each stage.
• Help design interview structures and candidate-specific question guides calibrated to each role and each interviewer's evaluation zone.
• Support a portfolio of concurrent searches across multiple companies at varying stages, prioritizing based on urgency and partner visibility.
• Help run reference checks and close out searches with a clear, documented rationale for the final hire.
• Develop working fluency in Volition's minority growth equity model and how it shapes a founder's hiring calculus.
• Translate diligence context — board notes, growth trajectory, team gaps — into a hiring strategy a CEO/Founder will actually trust.
• Build credibility directly with portfolio company CEOs and boards as a talent advisor, not an intake coordinator.
• Support Chris directly on internal Volition hiring — the firm's own searches, not just portfolio company roles.
• Help develop and improve HR programs and infrastructure for Volition itself, under Chris's direction.
• Take on operational execution that keeps the talent function running smoothly — the administrative and process work that sits behind every search and program.
• Act as a genuine right hand to Chris, picking up whatever the function needs rather than staying inside a fixed lane.
• Partner daily with Volition's Recruiter, Talent on sourcing and early-stage screening across active searches, coordinating their day-to-day work on a search-by-search basis even though they report separately to Chris.
• Help maintain and improve Volition's structured hiring methodology — scorecards, interview design, reference frameworks — under Chris's guidance.
• Support consistent search velocity and quality as the number of concurrent searches scales.
• Serve as a day-to-day point of contact for CEOs and Managing Partners on active searches, with Chris involved on anything high-stakes or ambiguous.
• Report search status, market intelligence, and candidate pipeline health to Chris and Volition leadership.
• Represent Volition's talent brand externally with candidates, search partners, and the broader market.
• Operates with real urgency in a fast-paced, results-first environment — Volition wants people who compete to win every day, not just show up.
• Owns the numbers: searches completed per quarter, new-hire targets hit without lowering the quality bar, and post-hire retention as the clearest signal of recruiting performance.
• Proactively keeps every stakeholder — portfolio company leadership and internal Volition staff — current on search status without waiting to be asked.

Benefits

• Direct, close mentorship — this role is built as a genuine apprenticeship into senior talent and HR leadership, not a solo mandate.
• Exposure to Volition's investment team and portfolio company CEOs early in your career, with support close at hand.
• Breadth beyond search: real exposure to HR program development and operational execution alongside portfolio company hiring.
• A firm with genuine scale and a differentiated model: $2.5B+ AUM, minority growth capital, and a portfolio spanning roughly 40 companies.
• A small, tight-knit talent team where your growth is a priority, not an afterthought.

What This Job Offers

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