Senior Manager, Talent

Senior Manager, Talent

Location: Boston, MA

Type: Full-time

Reports To: Chris Fahey, SVP, Talent & Human Resources

Volition Capital is a Boston-based growth equity firm with more than $2.5 billion in assets under management. The firm leads minority capital raises, typically at Series A and B, investing $15–70M in founder-owned, capital-efficient B2B technology companies with $5M+ in revenue. Because Volition invests minority capital, founders retain majority ownership and control — the firm's role is to be a genuinely useful partner, not a typical control investor.

About half of the portfolio is bootstrapped founders, which means the team spends significant time earning trust well before any capital event ever happens.

Volition's talent function supports executive hiring across roughly 40 portfolio companies, in addition to internal hiring for the firm itself. This role exists to give Chris real leverage within that function: someone who can take on meaningful pieces of the work, under his direct guidance, rather than leaving him to coordinate everything alone.

The person in this seat supports portfolio company executive searches — VP and C-suite roles — from initial scoping conversations with a CEO/Founder through offer. That means helping build the scorecard, structuring the interview process, developing candidate-specific questions, and staying close enough to the search that the quality of the hire reflects well on Volition, with Chris reviewing and coaching along the way.

This role reports directly to Chris Fahey, SVP of Talent & Human Resources. It carries a great deal of autonomy day to day — real ownership of searches and decisions — while also benefiting from Chris's close support and guidance, giving this person the latitude to run with the work alongside the coaching to keep getting better s person will also work in close, daily partnership with Volition's recruiter who reports separately to Chris but collaborates intimately with this role on every active search.

Beyond portfolio company searches, this person supports Chris directly on internal Volition hiring, HR program development, and the operational execution that keeps the talent function running — the kind of work a strong right hand takes on rather than a narrowly scoped individual contributor role.

The person who succeeds here is best understood as a junior version of Chris: building toward the same range and judgment, comfortable with structured hiring work and with the HR and operational work that surrounds it, and genuinely energized by learning through close partnership rather than being handed a fully independent mandate on day one. They bring real presence even while building experience — comfortable sitting in on a conversation with a CEO, curious enough to ask why a founder is cautious about a particular hire, and structured enough to work within a repeatable process rather than improvise one every time.

• Run portfolio company executive searches — VP and C-suite roles — from JD and scorecard through offer, with Chris's direct coaching and review at each stage.
• Help design interview structures and candidate-specific question guides calibrated to each role and each interviewer's evaluation zone.
• Support a portfolio of concurrent searches across multiple companies at varying stages, prioritizing based on urgency and partner visibility.
• Help run reference checks and close out searches with a clear, documented rationale for the final hire.

• Develop working fluency in Volition's minority growth equity model and how it shapes a founder's hiring calculus.
• Translate diligence context — board notes, growth…