Director of Talent Acquisition, Corelight
$206-280k
+ Equity
Network & cloud security
Posted today
Network & cloud security
201-500 employees
Posted today
$206-280k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help defend the world's most sensitive, mission-critical organisations.
Role
Who you are
- Professional Experience: 12+ years in recruitment, including 5+ years in senior leadership (Director level)
- The "Hybrid" Pedigree: You have successfully navigated both large, established corporate environments and smaller, high-growth tech "scale-ups." You understand the systems of the former and the speed of the latter
- AI & Tech Stack Mastery: Deep, hands-on mastery of Greenhouse and the modern AI talent-tech landscape. You are a power user who treats AI as a strategic lever, not just a tool
- Leadership: Proven experience managing and inspiring distributed teams. You are known for building a culture of professional development and high engagement. A sense of humor is a plus
- Domain Fluency: Deep experience in high-growth technology environments is required. Familiarity with the cybersecurity landscape is a strong plus
- Education: Bachelor’s degree required; MBA preferred
- Governance: Familiarity with high-governance recruiting environments (e.g., public market readiness or SOX compliance) is a plus
- Legal: Must be legally authorized to work in the United States
What the job involves
- As Corelight enters its next phase of growth, we are seeking a Director of Talent Acquisition to structure and lead our hiring engine. This leader is not a tactical recruitment manager; you are a consultant to the business
- Your mission is to evolve Corelight’s Talent Acquisition function from a rapid fulfillment service into a high-performance, AI-driven consultancy that prioritizes quality of hire, business impact, and operational rigor
- You will report to the Chief People Officer, partnering with HR Business Partners and HR Operations to execute a transformation plan that readies us for the public market
- You will lead with a unique blend of empathy and rigor, maintaining a high performance bar while fostering an inclusive environment where a distributed team can thrive
- AI Integration & Innovation: Serve as the internal pioneer for AI in recruiting. You will design and implement AI-enhanced workflows to automate administrative bottlenecks, increase recruiter capacity, and improve our assessment capabilities. We are looking for a leader who treats AI as a core competency—potentially even developing AI Agents to streamline the top-of-funnel
- Systems Mastery: Audit and maximize Greenhouse functionality to extract 100% value from the platform. Ensure every stage of our process is optimized for speed, candidate experience (via tools like Guide.io), and data integrity
- Metrics-Driven Governance: Build a "v 2.0" recruiting engine that utilizes deep analytics (Quality of Hire, Cost-per-Hire, Diversity Attainment) to drive executive decision-making
- Full-Cycle Excellence: Maintain an active caseload of high-priority roles, modeling elite sourcing, storytelling, and closing skills to set the performance bar for the entire recruiting function
- Interview Rigor: Design and deploy standardized, behavioral-based rubrics and structured interviewing techniques. You will enable everyone touching the interview process to eliminate bias and heighten assessment rigor
- Consultative Partnership: Further develop the active partnership between HR Business Partner, Recruiter, and Hiring Manager to ensure optimal technical/cultural matches
- Visionary Leadership: Create and articulate a clear, inspiring vision for a high performing Talent Acquisition team at Corelight. You will ensure the TA team understands not just the "how" of hiring, but the "why" behind our mission
- Vendor Strategy: Professionalize global hiring by turning transactional vendor relationships into strategic, compliant partnerships
- Brand Advocacy: Champion Corelight’s Employer Value Proposition, bringing our unique culture with its open-source roots to highly competitive technical audiences
Our take
Corelight is a software company that integrates machine learning into cyber and cloud security. It develops NDRs (Network Detection and Response systems) alongside virtual, software and cloud sensors to better protect enterprises and institutions.
The company's most popular product is the Zeek Network Security Monitor, which is used by the likes of Amazon and Mozilla. It is also continually developing new products (such as a Cloud Sensor for Amazon Web Services) as the nature and complexity of cyber threats continue to grow.
Launched back in 2013, the company has been around for a while now, but it continues to keep up to date with the changing market. In 2024, Corelight secured immense Series E funding as it capitalises on the booming AI and cyber defense markets.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2024
$150m
SERIES E
Sep 2021
$75m
SERIES D
Total funding: $309.2m
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Brian Dye
(CEO)Former CPO of the company. Prior to this, they were EVP of Corporate Products at McAfee, Group VP and GM of the Mobile Platforms Group at Citrix, and SVP of Information Security at Symantec.
Seth Hall
(Co-Founder & Advisor)Currently an Affiliated Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Previously Research Engineer at ICSI and Team Member at Dragon Research Group.
Vern Paxson
(Co-Founder & Chief Scientist)Previously Director of the Networking Security Group at ICSI.
Robin Sommer
(Co-Founder)Currently Affiliated Researcher at ICSI and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Previously General Chair at the IEEE International Symposium on Security and Privacy.
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