Director of Talent Acquisition

At Sonos we want to create the ultimate listening experience for our customers and know that it starts by listening to each other. As part of the Sonos team, you’ll collaborate with people of all styles, skill sets, and backgrounds to realize our vision while fostering a community where everyone feels included and empowered to do the best work of their lives.

This role is a hybrid position

This hybrid role allows for a combination of remote work and in-office collaboration. Qualified applicants must live within commuting distance of our Boston office and should expect to be in the office about three days per week.

The Role

At Sonos, we’re passionate about creating sound experiences that inspire the world, and it all starts with our people. As we grow, we’re focused on strengthening how we find and hire exceptional talent. The Director of Talent Acquisition will enhance and scale our recruiting function to meet the evolving needs of the business and our teams.

In this role, you’ll serve as a key partner to leaders across Sonos, ensuring our talent strategy aligns with business goals, financial health, and long-term growth. You’ll bring deep recruiting expertise, using data, market insights, and workforce planning to inform executive decisions on talent, location strategy, and resource allocation.

You’ll champion a philosophy of talent density, attracting and hiring high-impact individuals who elevate Sonos’ capability and culture. In partnership with the TA Programs Lead, you’ll help design sourcing and assessment strategies to reach top-tier, hard-to-find talent critical to our innovation pipeline.

What You’ll Do:

• Strategic Team Leadership: Lead and develop a high-performing global recruiting team. Set clear goals, coach for growth, and translate business priorities into hiring plans. Drive accountability for key metrics like time-to-hire and quality-of-hire.
• Executive Partnership: Partner with executives to standardize rigorous, unbiased assessment processes and act as a trusted advisor on the talent landscape, compensation, and workforce planning.
• Candidate Experience & Employer Branding: Create an inclusive and consistent candidate experience that reflects the Sonos brand, and collaborate with Marketing to amplify our employer brand globally.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Use data and insights to guide hiring decisions, improve processes, and present key metrics that optimize pipeline and sourcing effectiveness.
• Sourcing Strategy: Develop and implement sourcing strategies to engage exceptional talent, including passive candidates critical to Sonos’ innovation goals.
• Technology & Process Optimization: Optimize recruiting tools (ATS, CRM) and technology roadmap to maximize efficiency, data integrity, and global scalability through simplification and automation.
• Offer Management & Compliance: Oversee offer and closing processes, ensuring a fair, competitive approach by partnering with our Total Rewards team.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner with the broader People Leadership and teams on training, workforce planning, and succession to ensure a seamless transition from recruitment to onboarding.

What You’ll Need

Basic qualifications:

• Extensive Recruiting Leadership: Possess a minimum of 8 years of progressive recruiting experience, including leading and developing teams in fast-paced, high-growth environments
• Proven ability to design, implement, and optimize recruiting strategies that align with business goals and workforce plans
• Hands-on expertise across the full recruiting lifecycle, from sourcing and attraction through offer and onboarding, with a strong commitment to equitable, inclusive hiring practices
• Strong leadership skills with a track record of building, coaching, and scaling distributed recruiting teams
• Demonstrated success influencing executive decisions through recruiting data, market insights, and strong business acumen
• Deep experience using modern recruiting systems (ATS, CRM, and sourcing tools) and analytics to measure and improve performance
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills, including experience engaging with senior leaders across HR, Finance, and Product

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in technology or similarly complex, mid-sized organizations
• Experience improving recruiting processes and using data to inform business decisions
• Knowledge of equitable and inclusive hiring practices
• Hands-on experience with sourcing tools and modern recruiting technology

Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria. If you don’t have 100% of the skills listed, we strongly encourage you to apply if interested.

Visa Sponsorship: Sonos is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role at this time. We ask that applicants be authorized to work for any US employer, both now and in the future.

Your profile will be reviewed and you'll hear from us once we have an update. At Sonos we take the time to hire right and appreciate your patience.

The base pay range for this role based off geographic location is:

$181,000 and $226,300

The specific pay offered will depend on the candidate’s geographic location, as well as qualifications and experience. We apply geographic pay differentials based on the cost of labor in the market. Employees in high-cost locations may be compensated at the upper end of the range, while those in medium or low cost markets may be compensated at the lower end of the range. Your recruiter can provide more details about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.

Please note that compensation details listed in US job postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits.

We also offer a comprehensive benefits program with choice and flexibility in mind to help support the health, wealth, and overall well-being of our employees. Regular full time employees in the US are eligible for benefits on day one, including:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• A 401(k) plan with company matching and immediate vesting
• An Open Time Off policy (OTO) so you have maximum opportunity to disconnect and recharge, with no tenure-based vacation accruals required
• 80 hours of sick time upon hire, refreshed annually
• Up to 12 paid holidays per calendar year
• Sonos offers a generous paid leave program for new parents or to care for a family member with a serious health condition, as well as short- and long-term disability for your own medical condition
• Company-paid Disability, Life, and AD&D Insurance
• Voluntary benefits, including Voluntary Life, AD&D, Accident, and Pet Insurance
• Mental health benefits to support your holistic well-being
• A generous employee discount program & Sonos Radio HD - on us!

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

Notice to U.S. Job Applicants: Sonos is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

Sonos is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.