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Director / VP Talent Acquisition

Arlington, VA

Dandelion Energy is seeking a Director Talent Acquisition to lead and scale our recruiting efforts, with a focus on hiring top-tier sales and technical talent. As a key partner to leadership, you will help shape the company’s hiring strategy, build strong talent pipelines, and drive an outstanding candidate experience.

In this role, you will manage the recruitment team and work closely with hiring managers to ensure we attract, assess, and hire the best talent to drive Dandelion’s growth. You will also play a pivotal role in enhancing our employer brand, streamlining recruiting processes, and optimizing our recruiting tech stack.

This is an in-person position based at our Arlington, VA headquarters—one block from the Courthouse metro station (Orange and Silver lines), with easy access from DC, Northern VA, and Bethesda.

If you're a strategic, data-driven, and results-oriented recruiting leader who thrives in a fast-paced startup environment, we’d love to hear from you!

Build and scale a best-in-class recruiting function

  • Manage and develop the recruiting function, ensuring a high-impact, culturally responsive, and results-driven hiring process.
  • Establish recruiting best practices, ensuring alignment across hiring managers and leadership.
  • Leverage data and analytics to track key recruiting metrics, optimize processes, and drive hiring efficiency.

Drive strategic hiring for sales and technical roles

  • Partner closely with sales and engineering leadership to understand business needs and proactively build talent pipelines.
  • Proactively build and maintain a talent pipeline for key roles, with a focus on enterprise sales, business development, and engineering talent.
  • Develop and implement sourcing strategies to attract passive candidates in highly competitive markets.

Candidate Experience & Hiring Excellence

  • Lead structured interview training for hiring teams, ensuring a data-driven and rigorous selection process.
  • Provide a world-class candidate experience, effectively selling the Dandelion mission, culture, and career opportunities.
  • Manage offer negotiations, closing candidates with a compelling pitch on total rewards, equity, and career growth.

Optimize recruitment processes and candidate experience

  • Ensure a seamless candidate experience, from application through offer, to drive engagement and increase offer acceptance rates.
  • Develop structured scorecards, job descriptions, interview panels, and seamless offer and close process that aligns with Dandelion’s recruiting SOP. 

Standardize offer negotiation and closing processes, ensuring competitive and compelling offers to top candidates.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of in-house recruiting experience, with at least 2 years managing recruiters, experience w/ agency recruitment is a PLUS.
  • Proven experience hiring for both sales and technical roles in a startup or fast-growing environment.
  • Strong track record of meeting and exceeding hiring goals.
  • Bachelor's degree from a four-year university (honors always recognized!).
  • Experience with applicant tracking systems and recruitment analytics tools.
  • Understanding of compensation, general HR policies, and work visa processes.

Traits

  • Strong communication skills 
  • Data-driven mindset 
  • Proactive and curious 
  • Persistent and results-oriented 
  • Highly organized 

Benefits/Perks:

  • Health/Dental/Vision insurance
  • 401k plan
  • Stock/Equity options
  • Unlimited (PTO)

You’ll love working at Dandelion because:

Since spinning out of Google X in 2017, Dandelion Energy has been electrifying home heating by building and installing innovative geothermal heat pump products. We both work directly with homeowners and count some of the nation’s largest home builders as our customers. Our team has raised the profile of geothermal heat pumps nationally, designed and built the nation’s most efficient residential heat pump, successfully advocated for electrification-friendly policy change on the local and national levels, and completed high quality installations of thousands of geothermal heat pumps throughout the Northeast US.

Our talented team consists of experts in hardware engineering, HVAC installation, drilling, solar financing, behavioral economics, and high-growth operations amongst many other backgrounds. Motivated by the potential to catalyze and scale a widespread transition to sustainable and affordable heating and cooling, our work is both complex yet rewarding. We are working to create a wholesale shift in how people heat and cool their homes — join us!

Dandelion Energy is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage qualified individuals from all backgrounds to apply for this position.To apply, please submit your resume and cover letter detailing your relevant experience and qualifications to [contact email/website]. We thank all applicants for their interest, but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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