Director of Talent Acquisition, Fieldguide
$190-245k
Offers Equity • Offers Bonus
Software for assurance & advisory firms
Be an early applicant
Software for assurance & advisory firms
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$190-245k
Offers Equity • Offers Bonus
101-200 employees
Company mission
Fieldguide's mission is to increase trust in commerce and capital markets.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of talent acquisition experience, including 5+ years leading teams at high-growth AI or SaaS startups
- Experience scaling organizations from approximately 150 to 500+ employees
- Proven ability to influence founders, executives, and senior leaders on hiring strategy and execution
- Demonstrated success designing and executing end-to-end global recruiting strategies
- Experience building, developing, and retaining high-performing talent acquisition teams
- Strong background in building scalable recruiting processes and systems, including AI and SaaS tooling, vendors, and budgets
- Experience hiring in highly competitive geographic markets (e.g. San Francisco, New York)
- Experience building employer branding or talent marketing initiatives
- Experience supporting international expansion and new market entry
What the job involves
- Fieldguide is entering a rapid stage of growth where hiring excellence is a critical lever for company success
- As Director, Talent Acquisition, you will own and scale a global recruiting function that supports rapid, high-quality growth across the company
- This role is both strategic and hands-on
- You will partner closely with executive leadership to translate business goals into workforce plans, design scalable hiring systems and employer brand from the ground up, define and implement the agentic strategy, and develop a team capable of hiring exceptional talent in competitive markets
- You will shape how we hire, who we hire, and how our culture shows up throughout the candidate experience
- This is a defining leadership role for someone who enjoys building durable systems for high volume hiring, influencing senior stakeholders, and developing strong recruiting teams while maintaining a high bar for execution
- Build, coach, and lead a high-performing, globally distributed talent acquisition team, including developing strong people managers
- Evolve the metrics and reporting function, creating live dashboards for understanding team performance and identifying bottlenecks in the process. Use data to inform process and decision making
- Create a culture of ownership, accountability, and data-driven continuous improvement across the recruiting function, balancing speed and quality as the company scales
- Build and scale a compelling employer brand, clearly articulating Fieldguide’s mission, culture, and value proposition to attract top talent in competitive markets
- Partner with founders, executives, and functional leaders to forecast hiring needs and align recruiting strategy with business priorities
- Translate short- and long-term company goals into clear, actionable hiring plans across teams and regions
- Act as a trusted advisor to hiring managers and executives, guiding hiring decisions and tradeoffs with sound judgment and data
- Collaborate closely with People Operations and Finance on headcount planning, budgeting, and compliance
- Design and operate global hiring models that work across geographies, time zones, and labor markets
- Ensure a consistent, inclusive, and high-quality candidate experience worldwide
- Define and track meaningful recruiting metrics to assess performance, surface bottlenecks, and inform decisions
- Continuously improve recruiting processes, tools, and systems to support growth and efficiency, particularly with AI
- Stay current on market trends, particularly in technical, AI, and hard-to-hire talent areas
- The Impact You Will Have:
- In this role, you will hit the ground running demonstrating immediate impact to Fieldguide
- By 90 days, the Director, Talent Acquisition is:
- Built trust and operating credibility with founders, execs, and hiring managers, becoming the go-to partner for hiring strategy and decisions
- Established clear ownership, priorities, and operating rhythms across the recruiting function, resulting in more predictable and higher-quality hiring
- Delivered a clear, data-backed talent acquisition roadmap aligned to business goals, including near-term execution improvements and longer-term scale plans
- First 30 Days: Develops a deep understanding of Fieldguide’s business, product, and culture while assessing the current state of recruiting across people, process, and tools. Builds strong relationships with founders, executives, People Ops, Finance, and hiring managers, and stabilizes execution by addressing immediate gaps in open roles and pipelines
- Days 30-60: Clarifies team structure, responsibilities, and operating cadence, and partners with business leaders to improve hiring planning and intake. Begins standardizing hiring practices and candidate experience while introducing early process or tooling improvements that reduce friction and increase predictability
- Days 60-90: Implements meaningful improvements to recruiting metrics, processes, and systems that measurably impact hiring speed and quality. Aligns leaders on a scalable global hiring model and positions talent acquisition as a proactive, strategic partner to the business
Our take
Fieldguide offers a cloud-native collaboration and automation platform for accounting and advisory practices. The idea is to make workflow and collaboration more streamlined, and automate parts of it altogether, for teams working on cybersecurity, risk, and ESG audits.
Fieldguide has launched with a focus on three high-demand and high-growth areas of business. With cybersecurity and ESG in particular seeing increased corporate investment, thanks to the steep costs of error or regulatory non-compliance, demand for tech that can help manage this influx of auditing work is likely to grow fast. Indeed, Fieldguide received an impressive funding injection in 2024 that will help expand the kinds of audits its product applies to, as well as grow its team.
Fieldguide has already netted some key audit and advisory firms as clients, suggesting that the young company is onto something good. Internal productivity tools are booming across multiple industries, with automation also seeing a significant uptake for enterprise businesses. If Fieldguide can successfully manage its scale-up, it could become an important software player.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
55% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2026
$75m
SERIES C
Mar 2024
$30m
SERIES B
Total funding: $122.4m
Company benefits
- Health
- Dental
- PTO
Company HQ
Eureka Valley, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Chris Szymansky
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously co-founded live video streaming platform Vivo, before moving on to work in software development at Fireman Creative. Subsequently held various high level positions, including CTO at JazzHR, and VP of Engineering, Product, and Design at Atrium.
Jin Chang
(Co-Founder & CEO)Originally a Management Consultant at EY, before co-founding blockchain aggregation API company, Bitbutter. Moved on to serve as Chief of Staff at Atrium.
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