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AppFolio is a property management and legal software company with a consistent track record of sponsoring skilled foreign nationals across engineering, product, and data roles. For tech professionals on work visas, AppFolio represents a legitimate and active sponsorship option in the enterprise software space.
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The Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition leads AppFolio’s recruiting team while continuing to personally own key management hiring. This is intentionally a player-coach role: we believe the best TA leaders stay close to the work, and we’ve designed this position so that hands-on management recruiting, and team leadership reinforce each other rather than compete.
You’ll lead AppFolio’s recruiting team—setting direction, developing talent, and raising the bar for how we hire across the company—while personally running searches for key roles. You’ll partner with senior leaders, HR Business Partners, and the broader People team to translate workforce plans into outcomes, and you’ll bring the credibility of a true Talent Advisor to every conversation about how we recruit at AppFolio. This role sits on the People leadership team and is a key voice in shaping how AppFolio attracts, hires, and retains the talent that drives the business forward.
What You’ll Do
Lead and develop the recruiting team
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of recruiters, setting clear goals and fostering a high-performance, accountable, and collaborative team culture
- Mentor recruiters on stakeholder partnership, sourcing strategy, candidate experience, and closing
- Set and uphold clear performance expectations, addressing gaps directly and developing team members toward their next level
- Make timely, fair decisions about performance and role fit, partnering closely with HRG/HRBP when difficult conversations are needed
- Monitor team capacity and workload distribution, making thoughtful tradeoffs to balance speed, quality, and recruiter sustainability
- Build accountability and trust through clear expectations and regular feedback
Own key management recruiting
- Manage a req load for senior management roles
- Serve as the trusted recruiting partner to AppFolio’s Sr. leaders on key hires
Drive hiring strategy and outcomes
- Partner with HRBPs and senior business leaders to translate workforce plans into recruiting execution across Product Development, GTM, and G&A
- Navigate escalations and complex hiring situations, partnering directly with hiring managers when needed
- Coach hiring managers on interviewing, assessment, and decision-making to raise the quality bar across the company
- Represent TA in workforce planning discussions, bringing the talent market perspective to the table
Shape how we recruit
- Drive a hiring process that balances speed, quality, and candidate experience—making enhancements where needed
- Use key metrics to track progress, identify bottlenecks, and inform decisions
- Serve as a subject matter expert for our Applicant Tracking System, supporting workflow optimization, adoption, and enhancements
- Contribute to broader Talent and People initiatives as a member of the People leadership team
What We’re Looking For
- 8+ years of recruiting experience, with significant time in software or technology
- Strong track record in leadership hiring, including building proactive pipelines
- Demonstrated leadership of recruiters or a recruiting function, whether formally as a manager or as a senior IC mentoring, developing, and elevating peers
- Experience hiring across multiple functions (Engineering, Product, GTM, G&A)
- Demonstrated ability to set clear performance expectations, give direct feedback, and make hard people decisions with care and consistency
Balance empathy and accountability—support team members through challenges while still holding them to a standard
- Deep relationships with business leaders and a reputation for being a trusted recruiting partner
Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills with senior leaders—ability to navigate ambiguity
Comfort balancing hands-on recruiting with team leadership—and a genuine interest in doing both
- Experience using data to inform recruiting decisions, track progress, and improve outcomes
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience with Applicant Tracking Systems, including supporting implementations, optimization, or migrations
Location
Find out more about our locations by visiting our site. This role is hub-based out of Santa Barbara to allow for tight alignment with the leadership team.
Compensation & Benefits
The compensation that we reasonably expect to pay for this role is: $167,200 - $209,000 base pay. The actual compensation for this role will be determined by a variety of factors, including but not limited to the candidate’s skills, education, experience, and internal equity.
Please note that compensation is just one aspect of a comprehensive Total Rewards package. The compensation range listed here does not include additional benefits or any discretionary bonuses you may be eligible for based on your role and/or employment type.
Regular full-time employees are eligible for benefits—see here.
About the Role
The Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition leads AppFolio’s recruiting team while continuing to personally own key management hiring. This is intentionally a player-coach role: we believe the best TA leaders stay close to the work, and we’ve designed this position so that hands-on management recruiting, and team leadership reinforce each other rather than compete.
You’ll lead AppFolio’s recruiting team—setting direction, developing talent, and raising the bar for how we hire across the company—while personally running searches for key roles. You’ll partner with senior leaders, HR Business Partners, and the broader People team to translate workforce plans into outcomes, and you’ll bring the credibility of a true Talent Advisor to every conversation about how we recruit at AppFolio. This role sits on the People leadership team and is a key voice in shaping how AppFolio attracts, hires, and retains the talent that drives the business forward.
What You’ll Do
Lead and develop the recruiting team
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of recruiters, setting clear goals and fostering a high-performance, accountable, and collaborative team culture
- Mentor recruiters on stakeholder partnership, sourcing strategy, candidate experience, and closing
- Set and uphold clear performance expectations, addressing gaps directly and developing team members toward their next level
- Make timely, fair decisions about performance and role fit, partnering closely with HRG/HRBP when difficult conversations are needed
- Monitor team capacity and workload distribution, making thoughtful tradeoffs to balance speed, quality, and recruiter sustainability
- Build accountability and trust through clear expectations and regular feedback
Own key management recruiting
- Manage a req load for senior management roles
- Serve as the trusted recruiting partner to AppFolio’s Sr. leaders on key hires
Drive hiring strategy and outcomes
- Partner with HRBPs and senior business leaders to translate workforce plans into recruiting execution across Product Development, GTM, and G&A
- Navigate escalations and complex hiring situations, partnering directly with hiring managers when needed
- Coach hiring managers on interviewing, assessment, and decision-making to raise the quality bar across the company
- Represent TA in workforce planning discussions, bringing the talent market perspective to the table
Shape how we recruit
- Drive a hiring process that balances speed, quality, and candidate experience—making enhancements where needed
- Use key metrics to track progress, identify bottlenecks, and inform decisions
- Serve as a subject matter expert for our Applicant Tracking System, supporting workflow optimization, adoption, and enhancements
- Contribute to broader Talent and People initiatives as a member of the People leadership team
What We’re Looking For
- 8+ years of recruiting experience, with significant time in software or technology
- Strong track record in leadership hiring, including building proactive pipelines
- Demonstrated leadership of recruiters or a recruiting function, whether formally as a manager or as a senior IC mentoring, developing, and elevating peers
- Experience hiring across multiple functions (Engineering, Product, GTM, G&A)
- Demonstrated ability to set clear performance expectations, give direct feedback, and make hard people decisions with care and consistency
Balance empathy and accountability—support team members through challenges while still holding them to a standard
- Deep relationships with business leaders and a reputation for being a trusted recruiting partner
Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills with senior leaders—ability to navigate ambiguity
Comfort balancing hands-on recruiting with team leadership—and a genuine interest in doing both
- Experience using data to inform recruiting decisions, track progress, and improve outcomes
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience with Applicant Tracking Systems, including supporting implementations, optimization, or migrations
Location
Find out more about our locations by visiting our site. This role is hub-based out of Santa Barbara to allow for tight alignment with the leadership team.
Compensation & Benefits
The compensation that we reasonably expect to pay for this role is: $167,200 - $209,000 base pay. The actual compensation for this role will be determined by a variety of factors, including but not limited to the candidate’s skills, education, experience, and internal equity.
Please note that compensation is just one aspect of a comprehensive Total Rewards package. The compensation range listed here does not include additional benefits or any discretionary bonuses you may be eligible for based on your role and/or employment type.
Regular full-time employees are eligible for benefits—see here.
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Target engineering and product roles first
AppFolio's sponsorship activity is concentrated in software development, data, and product management. If your background is in these areas, you're applying to the roles where AppFolio has the strongest history of supporting work visa candidates.
Understand which visa types AppFolio supports
AppFolio sponsors H-1B, TN, F-1 OPT, F-1 CPT, and Green Card pathways. Knowing which category fits your situation before you apply helps you ask the right questions and signals genuine preparation to the recruiting team.
Highlight domain expertise in property tech or legal software
AppFolio operates in a niche vertical, property management and legal software. Candidates who can connect their technical skills to real estate workflows, SaaS platforms, or compliance-heavy environments tend to stand out in hiring.
Apply early in the hiring cycle if you're on OPT
F-1 OPT and CPT candidates should apply well before their authorization window closes. AppFolio has experience hiring international students, but onboarding and paperwork take time, starting early gives both sides room to work through the process.
Be direct about your visa status from the start
AppFolio is an active sponsor with established HR processes for international hires. Being upfront about your visa type and timeline in your first recruiter conversation avoids surprises and helps the team plan sponsorship steps alongside your offer.
Use Migrate Mate to find AppFolio roles filtered by sponsorship history
Searching broadly wastes time. Migrate Mate surfaces verified sponsors so you can filter by real sponsorship history, making it easier to identify open AppFolio roles where visa support is genuinely on the table.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does AppFolio sponsor H-1B visas?
Yes, AppFolio sponsors H-1B visas. The company has an active track record of filing H-1B petitions, primarily for roles in software engineering, data, and product. If you're on H-1B status or need initial sponsorship, AppFolio is worth targeting, though sponsorship decisions are made case by case based on role and headcount.
What visa types does AppFolio sponsor?
AppFolio sponsors H-1B and TN visas for work authorization, F-1 OPT and F-1 CPT for international students, and both EB-2 and EB-3 Green Card pathways for longer-term permanent residency. The Green Card sponsorship is a meaningful signal, it suggests AppFolio is willing to invest in retaining international employees over the long term.
Which roles or departments at AppFolio are most likely to offer visa sponsorship?
Sponsorship at AppFolio is most common in technical functions, software engineering, data engineering, data science, and product management. These are the roles where demand for specialized skills is highest and where the company has historically supported international candidates. Business, sales, and operations roles are less likely to include sponsorship, though exceptions exist.
How do I find open jobs at AppFolio that include visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is the most direct way to browse AppFolio's open roles filtered by verified sponsorship history. Rather than guessing which listings include visa support, you can search specifically for AppFolio positions where sponsorship has been documented, saving time and avoiding applications to roles that won't move forward for international candidates.
How do I approach the interview process at AppFolio as a visa-sponsored candidate?
Treat the visa conversation as separate from your technical qualifications. Perform well on the technical screens first, AppFolio's hiring bar in engineering is high. Once you reach the offer stage, be clear about your visa type, current status, and any upcoming deadlines. AppFolio's HR team has experience navigating sponsorship logistics, so proactive, organized communication makes the process smoother for both sides.