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Highlights
Dini Mehta ran sales at Lattice with under 3% voluntary attrition over four years, promoted nearly 50% of the management team from within, and built the kind of org where the best people kept choosing to stay. In this episode, she breaks down exactly how she did it: how she designs roles before writing job descriptions, why she keeps doing reference calls until she hears something negative, and the 90-day onboarding approach she uses with every senior hire that feels uncomfortable on purpose.
She also has a sharp take on AI fluency that goes well beyond the usual interview question, and makes a case that most senior onboarding is a quiet failure hiding in plain sight.
Topics discussed:
- Four questions to answer before you write a job description or pick a title
- Why Dini creates roles for exceptional generalists even without a defined seat
- Spending 30% of operating time meeting talent with no open roles
- Sourcing through “who are the three best people you know in this domain”
- Running reference calls until you surface at least one blind spot
- Embedding internal recruiters inside the revenue org, not alongside it
- Doing a bi-annual feedback loop with recruiting to evolve hiring profiles as the business changes
- The 45-minute interview where the candidate asks all the questions, and why the first 15 minutes don’t count
- Asking candidates to run a live mock team meeting to reveal management style
- The AI fluency interview question that separates candidates who have actually built something from those who haven’t
- Why experience can become a liability, and what to look for instead
- The 90-day over-communication approach to senior onboarding, and the specific milestone that tells you it worked
ABOUT YOUR HOST:
Andy Mowat has built GTM engines for top companies throughout his career. He led Revenue Operations and Demand Gen at four unicorns, including scaling from $10M to $100M ARR at both Upwork and Culture Amp, and helping guide Box and Carta through IPO scale. With a passion for connecting people, Andy has advised executives on their careers for years and launched Whispered to make searching for executive roles less intimidating.
Learn more about about Whispered: www.whispered.com
Interact with AI Andy: www.whispered.com/whisper-search
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