Senior Director, Talent Acquisition

Hi, We’re AppFolio

AppFolio is more than a company. We’re a community of dreamers, big thinkers, problem solvers, active listeners, and multipliers. At every opportunity, we set the pace while delivering innovation built to carry real estate into the future. One in which every experience feels effortless, yet meaningful. Where customers are empowered to take on any opportunity. We show up as one team, connected by our values to be a force for good. Because together, we have the power to create extraordinary outcomes for our customers, our communities, and ourselves.

The Senior Director of Talent Acquisition will be a key driver of AppFolio’s growth, leading from the front with a strategic, data-driven approach to talent acquisition that fuels business success. In this role, you'll work closely with senior leadership to deeply understand business needs, ensure efficient, high-impact hiring processes, and cultivate strong advocacy for Talent Acquisition throughout the organization.

As a core member of the People Leadership team, you will own high-priority senior leader and executive requisitions, empower hiring managers, and build a high-performing team known for delivering excellence.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead the Talent Acquisition team in executing proactive talent strategies that attract and retain top talent, both internally and externally, across the company.
• Partner with senior business leaders to assess both short-term and long-term talent needs, ensuring strategies and resources are aligned to meet hiring goals effectively.
• Work closely with HR Business Partners to develop a cohesive approach to workforce planning, aligning hiring plans with organizational needs.
• Champion a high-touch, scalable hiring process that supports an exceptional candidate experience while enabling managers to make informed hiring decisions.
• Build strong relationships across the organization, specifically with the Executive Team, empowering hiring managers and creating advocates for Talent Acquisition at all levels.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with departments such as Marketing to design and implement an effective recruitment marketing strategy.
• Own the recruitment process for high-priority senior leader and executive requisitions, delivering top talent for key leadership roles.
• Continuously improve talent assessment and interviewing processes, implementing necessary training and best practices to enhance the overall hiring experience.
• Develop and refine talent acquisition metrics (KPIs) to assess effectiveness, making data-driven decisions to optimize performance.
• Be an active member of the People Leadership team, contributing to broader talent strategy discussions and driving workforce planning in partnership with department leaders.

Qualifications

• Attracts Top Talent: Knows how to attract and select diverse and high-caliber talent. Sees the value in a consistent and thorough recruiting process balanced with speed.
• Builds and leads High-Performing Teams: Rallies the team behind common team goals while recognizing each team member's individual strengths and unique background. Defines success in terms of the whole team ahead of individual goals.
• Strategic Thinking: Ability to develop and adjust recruiting strategies to address movements in the market and business. Brings new ways of looking at challenges. Finds and champions the best creative ideas and actively moves them into implementation.
• Communication Skills: Able to effectively communicate what we are doing and why we are doing it. Strong executive presence with both the ability and credibility to present ideas and recommendations at all levels within the organization.
• Analytical Skills: Able to distill data down to key information that enables great decision-making.
• Business Acumen: Understands how our business works, knowledgeable in current and future practices, policies, trends, and relevant technology. Grasps complexities and connections among problems or issues, able to prioritize elements that will most drive AppFolio success.
• Dot Connector: Thoughtfully considers how events, challenges, new information, and decisions may impact or connect to others and seizes the opportunity to join the associated people and teams. Consistently ensures that cross-functional partners and the voice of the customer are represented in the design and delivery of people practices.

Must have

• 10+ years of recruiting experience.
• 5+ years of TA leadership experience in rapid-paced work environments and have led both recruiters and TA Ops and Enablement.
• 2+ years of experience either as an Executive Recruiter or leading an Executive Recruiting team.
• Experience in Engineering, Product/UX, GTM, HR.
• A demonstrated track record of building high-performing recruiting teams.
• Effective stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Compensation & Benefits

The base salary that we reasonably expect to pay for this role is: $216,000 - $270,000.

The actual base salary for this role will be determined by a variety of factors, including but not limited to: the candidate’s skills, education, experience, etc.

Please note that base pay is one important aspect of a compelling Total Rewards package. The base pay range indicated here does not include any additional benefits or bonuses/commissions that you may be eligible for based on your role and/or employment type.

Regular full-time employees are eligible for benefits - see here.