VP - Growth

About UniTalent

UniTalent is a work ledger built to solve resume fraud, embellishment, and inflation — problems that AI has made dramatically worse. As generative tools make it trivial to fabricate or exaggerate work history, employers are losing the ability to trust what candidates submit. UniTalent's answer is the UniTalent Resume: a permanent, append-only record of a candidate's real work history that can't be edited, backdated, or faked after the fact, giving recruiters a source of truth instead of a self-reported claim.

We operate a two-sided marketplace: candidates build their verified work ledger on one side; recruiters, hiring teams, and ATS platforms rely on that ledger to hire on evidence rather than claims on the other. Our growth depends on making both sides work — and trust each other — at the same time.

The Role

We're hiring a VP of Growth to own UniTalent's growth strategy end to end, across both sides of the marketplace. This is a founding growth hire: you're not inheriting a playbook, you're writing it. Success means getting the UniTalent Resume in front of enough recruiters and hiring teams that it becomes the trusted standard for verified work history, while growing the base of candidates building their ledger.

This role reports directly to the CEO/founding team and will be central to company strategy and board reporting.

Responsibilities
Own overall growth strategy for UniTalent across both sides of the marketplace — UniTalent Resume/work ledger adoption among candidates, and recruiter/ATS/hiring team acquisition on the other.
Drive partner and customer acquisition by sourcing, pitching, and closing recruiters, staffing agencies, ATS platforms, and corporate hiring teams as active users and integration partners — positioning the UniTalent Resume as the answer to AI-driven resume fraud in their hiring pipeline.
Leverage and expand a strong existing network across the recruiting and HR tech ecosystem — recruiters, staffing firms, ATS vendors, and in-house hiring teams — to accelerate early traction.
Design and run demand generation programs (partnerships, outbound, content, events, referral loops) to scale both candidate and recruiter acquisition.
Define and own growth metrics — activation, marketplace liquidity, partner pipeline, retention — and report progress to leadership and the board.
Partner closely with product and engineering to prioritize features (e.g., ATS integrations, onboarding flows, referral mechanics) that unlock growth.
Represent UniTalent externally at HR tech and recruiting industry events, conferences, and partner meetings.
Build the growth function — starting hands-on, with the expectation of hiring and leading a team as traction scales.
What We're Looking For
A proven track record driving growth at an HR tech, recruiting tech, staffing, or two-sided marketplace company — ideally at an early stage.
An established, active network of recruiters, staffing agencies, ATS platform contacts, and enterprise hiring teams that you can bring to bear from day one.
Experience navigating cold-start dynamics of a two-sided marketplace — you understand that growth here means solving both the "hard side" (recruiter trust and adoption) and the "easy side" (candidate signups) simultaneously.
Comfort operating with significant ownership and ambiguity, in a compensation structure tied directly to outcomes you drive.
Strong communication, partnership, and negotiation skills — this role is as much external-facing as it is strategic.