Director, Talent Acquisition

The posting, as Dispatch Bio wrote it

About us

Our purpose at Dispatch is to help create a world where all cancer patients can be cured. We’re humbled by the opportunity to work together as a team on some of the most pressing medical challenges of our time.

To achieve our purpose, we are dedicated to engineering a universal treatment across solid tumors. We’re committed to the development of novel therapies, leveraging first-in-class technologies in viral vectors, universal targets, and novel cytokine biology. Our therapeutic approach has the potential to enable us to treat significant numbers of cancer patients and make a real and lasting impact on the world.

Our company was founded on pioneering work carried out in the laboratories of Dr. Carl June (University of Pennsylvania), Dr. Kole Roybal (University of California, San Francisco), Dr. Christopher Garcia (Stanford University) and Dr. Andy Minn (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center).

At our company, you would become one of our early team members— not only playing a role in meeting our ambitious mission but also building our thriving culture. We are determined to deliver with urgency to discover new solutions and we always stay dedicated to scientific rigor; we have an ownership mindset because each and every one of us is integral to our success. Collaboration is core for us because we believe that by bringing people together with diverse perspectives, we make a stronger whole. And, we show we care about our work and each other by sharing feedback - ultimately in service of our vision to empower people to continue forward with their lives – cancer free.

The role

Dispatch is seeking a Director, Talent Acquisition to lead how we attract, assess, and hire outstanding people who will help Dispatch to pursue our purpose. As we enter an important period of growth, you will be accountable for the entire hiring process — from how candidates first experience our brand through offer acceptance — and for building upon our existing recruiting function that will scale with us, while staying true to our culture.

Reporting to the Chief People & Culture Officer, you will serve as a trusted advisor to our leadership team and hiring managers across research, development, technical operations, and corporate functions. You will lead a small recruiting team, including part-time/contract recruiting resources, and establish and manage relationships with external partners including search firms, immigration counsel, LinkedIn Recruiter, Greenhouse, and our branding partner.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You will set the strategy and build the processes, tools, and training that make great hiring repeatable, and you will also carry your own searches, especially for senior and hard-to-fill roles.

Key responsibilities

• End-to-end hiring: Own the full hiring process from application through offer acceptance, ensuring it is efficient, rigorous, and consistent, with a smooth handoff to People & Culture Operations for preboarding and

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Preferred experience & skills

• Experience hiring for a clinical-stage company, including clinical development and clinical operations roles
• Experience recruiting for cell or gene therapy, immuno-oncology, or other novel therapeutic modalities
• Hands-on experience using AI tools to improve recruiting efficiency and quality (such as sourcing, candidate outreach, interview design, or recruiting analytics), and curiosity about how new technology can keep improving how we hire
• Experience recruiting across multiple sites, particularly in the Philadelphia and San Francisco Bay Area talent markets
• Experience leading employer brand initiatives with an external creative or branding partner
• Experience managing employment-based immigration for candidates in partnership with outside counsel
• Experience with Greenhouse

Base Salary Range: $190-275K

Our values

Our values guide everything we do. While capabilities and skills are vital, understanding how a potential new colleague would embody our values is central to our hiring decisions.

Determined to deliver

By working with focus and passion, we can provide patients with the solutions they need.

Own every outcome

We can reach new heights when we stay centered on our shared success.

Collaboration at the core

When we band together, our work is better.

Feedback is fundamental

Constructive and authentic positive feedback may be difficult to master but it is vital to our success.

Working here

• We offer a highly competitive compensation package with meaningful ownership through equity
• Excellent coverage for medical, vision, and dental
• 401(k) with generous contribution
• Life insurance
• Flexible PTO policy
• Additional substantial benefits

We are an equal opportunity employer.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, national origin, or any characteristic protected under applicable law.