Senior Recruiter

Vox Media is hiring a Senior Recruiter to lead full-cycle hiring across editorial, podcast, revenue, and operations roles. This is a permanent, full-time, benefits-eligible position based in the New York City office.

Role Overview

The Senior Recruiter owns the recruiting process from intake through close, partnering with hiring managers and senior leaders to shape hiring plans and support searches. The role emphasizes proactive pipeline building, a high-touch candidate experience, and bias-aware interview design.

Responsibilities

• Manage full-cycle recruiting, including intake, sourcing, screening, interview coordination, offer processes, and close for a portfolio of editorial, podcast/audio, revenue, and operations roles.
• Partner with hiring managers and senior leaders to scope open roles, build hiring plans, and provide strategic guidance throughout each search.
• Build and maintain proactive, representative talent pipelines through sourcing, referrals, and passive-candidate outreach.
• Provide a high-touch candidate experience with timely communication, clear expectations, and consistent follow-through.
• Design and run consistent, bias-aware interview processes, including writing job scorecards and coaching interviewers on effective, legally sound interviewing.
• Coordinate multiple concurrent searches with competing timelines while keeping hiring managers and candidates aligned.
• Own offer strategy and negotiation in partnership with People leadership, balancing candidate expectations with internal equity and approved compensation bands.
• Track and report recruiting metrics such as pipeline health and time-to-fill, using data to flag risks and recommend adjustments.
• Stay current on media, journalism, and podcasting talent trends, and share market insight with hiring teams.

Requirements

• 6+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with a strong preference for in-house recruiting and a record of closing candidates.
• Experience recruiting editorial, creative, and audio or podcast talent.
• A consistent focus on positive candidate experience and building talent networks through each role.
• Strong sourcing ability, including proactively finding candidates rather than relying on inbound applications.
• Comfort advising and constructively pushing back with hiring managers, including senior leaders.
• Experience building equitable hiring processes by design, from first outreach to final offer.
• Strong organizational skills to manage a busy, varied requisition load without losing details.
• Systems experience, including comfort managing an ATS and partnering with the Head of People on recruiting process.
• Clear, warm, and timely communication representing Vox Media to every candidate, hired or not.
• Candidates should be fans of New York Magazine, Vox, and the podcast network.

Location

New York, NY (onsite)

Compensation

Pay Range: USD 100,000 - 125,000 per year

Technologies

• ATS

Benefits

This job is benefits-eligible.

Equal Opportunity and DEI Commitment

Vox Media is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, age, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state, or local law. Vox Media also considers qualified applicants with criminal histories in accordance with applicable Fair Chance laws. The company is committed to providing reasonable accommodations as part of the application process for candidates with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation, contact [email protected].

Application Process

Our recruiting team will review applications in a timely manner. Please note that recruiting team members will only contact candidates from @voxmedia.com email addresses and will not reach out via text message.