Senior Manager, Engineering Recruiting

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it.

As the Senior Manager of Engineering Recruiting, you’ll lead a high-performing team of technical recruiters responsible for full-cycle hiring across all engineering roles. This is a strategic, high-impact leadership position where you’ll partner closely with engineering leadership to shape talent strategy, build strong pipelines, and deliver exceptional hiring outcomes that directly support Vanta’s product roadmap and growth.

We’re looking for a recruiting leader who knows that building great engineering teams requires a thoughtful blend of proactive sourcing, rigorous assessment, and an outstanding candidate experience. You’ll bring both strategic vision and operational discipline - setting a high bar for quality, coaching your team through complex hiring challenges, and developing scalable processes to support Vanta’s continued expansion.

In this role, you’ll serve as a trusted advisor to engineering leaders, using data and market insights to guide hiring decisions, influence team composition, and drive continuous improvement across the recruiting function.

What you’ll do as a Senior Manager, Engineering Recruiting at Vanta

- Recruiting Strategy & Vision: Build and refine recruiting strategies for complex engineering roles, leveraging market intelligence, talent mapping, and competitive insights. Translate business priorities into clear, executable hiring plans that drive consistent outcomes.

- Engineering Partnership & Cross-Functional Influence: Partner closely with engineering leadership and cross-functional partners to translate business priorities into hiring strategies and evolve the interview process. Use data and market insight to guide decisions, and tailor communication across stakeholders to drive alignment.

- Team Leadership & Development: Lead and develop a team of technical recruiters responsible for full-cycle hiring across engineering. Foster a high-performing, healthy team through clear expectations, feedback, and coaching.

- Operational Excellence, Scale & Resilience: Own funnel health using data to improve processes, systems, and pipelines. Build scalable sourcing partnerships, set clear priorities and team structures, and establish operating rhythms that enable the team to execute effectively and navigate change.

- Accountability, Execution & Results: Own hiring outcomes and drive consistent delivery against goals. Lead with strong execution and a solutions-oriented mindset, holding the team accountable, turning challenges into clear paths forward, and using AI thoughtfully to improve efficiency and impact.

How to be successful in this role

- 10+ years of experience, with at least 3+ years in a leadership role managing recruiting teams

- Deep, hands-on expertise in full-cycle technical recruiting, with a track record of leading teams to deliver consistent hiring outcomes in high-growth environments.

- Experience building and developing high-performing recruiting teams, including coaching on assessment, stakeholder management, and closing.

- Strong understanding of technical talent markets, with the ability to translate insights into effective recruiting strategies.

- Data-driven decision-maker who uses recruiting metrics to diagnose issues, uncover insights, and influence behavior across teams.

- Strong operator with a bias for action and follow-through; sets priorities, navigates ambiguity with sound judgment, and drives execution and results consistently.

- Clear, effective communicator who builds credibility and strong relationships, and influences through tailored messaging across audiences.

- Must be authorized to work in the U.