Director of Talent Acquisition, Hinge
$197-236.5k
Expert level
New York
Dating app for meaningful relationships
Posted today
Dating app for meaningful relationships
201-500 employees
B2CLifestyleDating
Posted today
$197-236.5k
Expert level
New York
201-500 employees
B2CLifestyleDating
Company mission
To create a less lonely world by inspiring intimate, in-person connections.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience in Talent Acquisition, including enterprise or multi-functional scope
- 5+ years of people leadership experience, including leading leaders or managing managers
- Proven ability to operate as a strategic partner to executive leadership
- Demonstrated success in workforce planning, forecasting, and data-driven decision-making
- Strong track record of building scalable TA organizations and driving operational excellence
- Deep understanding of competitive talent markets, especially within consumer tech
- High judgment, strong executive presence, and comfort navigating ambiguity and tradeoffs
- Strong emotional intelligence—empathetic listener who builds psychological safety and coaches others through change
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence executives and cross-functional partners
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Director, Talent Acquisition to lead the Talent Acquisition organization and serve as a strategic advisor to senior leadership
- This role owns talent acquisition strategy and outcomes across the company, shapes long-range workforce planning, and ensures hiring strategies materially support business growth and capability needs
- The Director operates with a thoughtful, data-driven approach to enterprise hiring strategy, workforce planning, and TA operations, balancing urgency with long-term business impact
- The Director owns capacity planning, headcount forecasting, and TA resource allocation in close partnership with Finance and People leadership
- This role sets scalable recruiting standards and operating models, ensures strong offer governance and market alignment, and strengthens Hinge’s ability to attract, assess, and hire top talent in a competitive market
- Lead, mentor, and develop TA leaders and senior individual contributors, fostering an inclusive, high-performance culture
- Own organizational workforce and capacity planning to ensure scalable coverage aligned to business priorities
- Set performance standards, accountability frameworks, and leadership norms across the TA organization
- Provide ongoing coaching and feedback to support leader development, succession planning, and organizational health
- Own and shape talent acquisition strategy in partnership with executives and senior leaders, translating business strategy into long-range workforce and hiring plans
- Build and evolve enterprise hiring strategies that balance speed, quality, cost, and long-term capability
- Provide strategic leadership for complex, high-priority, or business-critical searches, removing obstacles and guiding decision-making
- Define and evolve build-vs-buy and internal-vs-external talent strategies to support sustainable growth
- Partner closely with HRBPs and People leadership to align TA strategy with people plans, enable workforce planning and internal mobility, and ensure a smooth candidate-to-employee transition
- Serve as a trusted advisor to leaders on talent tradeoffs, market constraints, and organizational design considerations
- Enable and govern internal mobility to support retention, engagement, and capability development
- Own the TA operating model, governance, and standards to ensure efficiency, quality, and scalability across the organization
- Ensure consistent, high-quality recruiting execution from intake and sourcing through assessment, offer, and close
- Be accountable for offer strategy, leveling consistency, and compensation governance, partnering closely with Compensation, Finance, and Legal
- Establish and scale best practices that support both speed and quality while managing risk
- Ensure recruiting practices align with legal and regulatory requirements
- Strengthen referral strategy and performance through cross-functional partnership and organizational engagement
- Own TA forecasting, scenario planning, and executive reporting to inform business decisions and priorities
- Establish success metrics tied to business impact, risk mitigation, and long-term capability
- Monitor recruiting performance and trends, identifying opportunities to improve outcomes and efficiency
- Use market intelligence to advise leaders on hiring challenges, competitive dynamics, and talent availability
- Set strategic direction for the TA technology ecosystem to support scale, data integrity, and strong decision-making
- Partner with TA Operations and internal systems teams to drive adoption, consistent workflows, and high-quality reporting
- Partner with Employer Brand and Marketing teams to strengthen Hinge’s talent market positioning and ensure consistent, authentic messaging across channels
- Serve as a trusted advisor to executives and senior leaders, proactively surfacing risks, insights, and recommendations
- Lead TA-related change management initiatives, ensuring clarity, alignment, and effective adoption across teams
Our take
Hinge is a dating app that stands out by prioritizing meaningful relationships over casual hookups. Designed for people seeking long-term commitments, it moves away from the typical "swipe" approach popularized by apps like Tinder. Instead, Hinge emphasized detailed profiles and compatibility-based recommendations so used can make deeper, more genuine connections.
Back in 2019, half of single people in the US had never tried a dating app. Fast forward to today, and online dating is just part of the norm. Hinge has carved out its place in this market by focusing on long-term meaningful relationships, and is certainly meeting the growing demand for companionship while riding the wave of the online dating trend.
The "dating app designed to be deleted" is the fastest-growing dating app on the market and with online dating becoming the mainstream, Hinge looks pretty set to stay at the top.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Top investors
48% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2014
$12m
SERIES A
Jul 2014
$4.5m
CONVERTIBLE
Total funding: $20.6m
Company benefits
- Hybrid and Remote Work: If you're hybrid, you'll come in three times a week. We host our biweekly All-Hands meetings on Wednesdays (often with sweet treats).
- Dating: Experience what our users experience. All US-based Hinge employees receive a $100 monthly stipend for epic dates. Hinge Premium is also free for all employees and their loved ones.
- Retirement Benefits: We match 100% of the first 10% of pre-tax 401(k) contributions you make, up to a maximum of $10,000 per year.
- Health Insurance: high-quality medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family.
- Paid Time Off: 20 accruable vacation days annually. Plus 1 floating holiday, 10 wellness days, 1 community service day, and a generous company holiday calendar. PTO increases with tenure after 2 years with the company.
- Parental Leave & Planning: When you become a new parent, you’re eligible for 100% paid parental leave (20 paid weeks for both birth and non-birth parents). We also subsidize fertility care and preservation services.
- Wellness: We subsidize OneMedical, ClassPass, and CitiBike memberships. You and your dependents also have access to individual therapy, group therapy, and coaching services through Modern Health.
- Professional Growth: receive a $3,000 annual Learning & Development stipend after three months, along with free access to Udemy, an online marketplace with over 6,000 courses, starting on your first day.
- Meals: Receive a $30 weekly Seamless credit. In the NYC office, we offer plenty of options for snacks and drinks. Plus, free catered lunches in the office Tuesday through Thursday. In-office lunch varies by location.
- Community Service: We match charitable donations dollar for dollar to a maximum of $15,000 per employee, and give every US-based employee 1 day off for community service annually.
- Commuting: Every US-based hybrid employee gets a $125 monthly commuter subsidy to use for public transportation, parking, bike maintenance and storage, and more.
- Pets: Feel free to bring your best friend to work with you to the NYC office. For US-based employees, we’ll provide pet insurance for your furry family members, too.
- Legal Coverage: You’ll receive low cost access to legal coverage that covers custody and support matters, divorce, real estate and home ownership, tenancy issues, tax issues, wills and estate planning, and more.
- Fertility Support: You’ll get easy access to fertility care through Carrot, from basic treatments to fertility preservation. We also provide $10,000 toward fertility preservation. You and your spouse/domestic partner are both eligible.
Company HQ
West Village, New York, NY
Leadership
Justin McLeod
(Founder & CEO)Having studied at Colgate University and Harvard Business School, Justin founded Hinge in February 2011. He has served as CEO since.
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