Director of Business Recruiting

About this role

About Engine

At Engine, we’re transforming business travel into something personalized, rewarding, and simple. For too long, managing travel and spend has been overwhelming and fragmented — we’re here to change that. We believe the future of travel should be seamless and powered by technology that delights customers at every step. That’s why we’re building a platform that brings together corporate travel, a powerful charge card, and modern spend management in one place.

To make this vision real, we’re looking for exceptional, mission-driven people to help redefine how businesses manage and experience travel.

More than 30,000 companies already rely on Engine to support over 1 million travelers and billions in annual bookings each year. Cash flow positive with rapid growth, we pair exclusive Engine-only rates, industry-leading rewards, and intelligent automation to help businesses save money while delivering world-class personalization and convenience.

Backed by Telescope Partners, Blackstone, and Permira, Engine has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing travel and fintech platforms in North America, with honors including the Deloitte Fast 500 and Built In’s Best Places to Work.

About the Role

We are seeking a confident, data first Director of Business Recruiting to lead, mature, and scale our recruiting function supporting Sales, Account Management, Growth Marketing, Partnerships, Supply, GTM Operations, Operations, Automation, Finance, and People. You will build and execute hiring strategies that deliver high quality talent, strengthen our employer brand in competitive markets, and optimize the candidate experience from first touch through candidate start.

As the talent advisor for these functions, you will partner closely with senior leaders across the business to drive increased talent density, predictable hiring outcomes, and strong organizational health.

What You’ll Do

Strategic Leadership and Partnership

• Lead the design and implementation of comprehensive talent acquisition strategies across Sales, Account Management, Growth Marketing, Partnerships, Supply, GTM Operations, Operations, Automation, Finance, and People

• Provide data driven insights and reporting that inspire decision making and behavior change to improve hiring outcomes

• Partner with business and functional leaders on workforce planning, capacity models, role prioritization, and hiring roadmaps aligned with company goals

• Advise leaders and hiring managers on market trends, compensation structures, candidate expectations, and recruiting practices across business functions

Process, Metrics, and Optimization

• Own and evolve full cycle recruiting processes from sourcing through onboarding, with an emphasis on speed, quality, and candidate experience

• Define, track, and report hiring metrics such as time to fill, pipeline health, source effectiveness, diversity goals, and hiring efficiency to senior leadership

• Continuously refine recruiting workflows, tools, and systems to support scale and complexity across business teams

Team Leadership and Development

• Build, lead, and mentor a high performing team of recruiters supporting GTM and business functions

• Provide coaching, training, and development to improve recruiting effectiveness, assessment quality, and candidate engagement

• Partner with cross functional leaders in People, Finance, Operations, and Business Operations to drive consistency, collaboration, and scalable talent practices

Employer Brand and Candidate Experience

• Elevate Engine’s employer brand across sales, growth, operations, finance, and people talent communities

• Ensure a world class candidate experience through clear communication, structured feedback, and efficient hiring processes

• Represent the company at industry events, conferences, and business focused talent initiatives

AI Enabled Recruiting and Innovation

• Lead the thoughtful integration of AI and automation into daily recruiting workflows to increase efficiency, accuracy, and hiring quality

• Evaluate and implement AI powered tools across sourcing, screening, scheduling, candidate assessment, and pipeline management while maintaining a human centered hiring experience

• Train and enable recruiting teams to effectively adopt AI tools, using data and experimentation to continuously improve outcomes

• Measure the impact of AI driven solutions on time to fill, quality of hire, candidate experience, recruiter productivity, and business impact

What Success Looks Like

• Successful execution of business hiring plans that support growth, operational scale, and organizational health

• A predictable, scalable recruiting model aligned to workforce planning and evolving business needs

• Trusted partnerships with senior leaders and a highly engaged, high performing recruiting…