Head of Recruiting
Leads full-cycle recruiting with focus on engineering, operations, and GTM at a fast-growing fintech startup. Builds and scales recruiting function and team while hands-on sourcing and closing top talent in a competitive market. Requires 5+ years tech recruiting experience.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own full-cycle recruiting across all functions, with a near-term focus on engineering, operations, and GTM.
- Build the recruiting function: hiring plan, process, tooling, employer brand, candidate experience.
- Build and lead a lean recruiting team that scales thoughtfully with hiring demand, prioritizing efficiency, strong processes, and clear ownership.
- Partner with hiring managers to define roles, calibrate on candidates, and close offers.
- Be a closer. Do extraordinary things to get candidates over the line.
- Move fast to meet aggressive hiring goals.
Requirements
- 5+ years of recruiting experience at tech companies, with meaningful time spent on engineering roles.
- Experience building or significantly scaling a recruiting function — or senior IC ready to step up and own it.
- Hands-on approach; not managing from a distance.
- High bar for talent; know what great looks like.
- Creative and relentless closer.
- Organized and fast; can run multiple searches in parallel.
- San Francisco-based and excited to be in-office 5 days a week.
Compensation
- Annual starting salary range of $170,000–$230,000 + equity + benefits.
Skills
Full-Cycle Recruiting, Engineering Recruiting, Talent Sourcing, Candidate Closing, Recruiting Processes, Employer Branding, ATS, Hiring Tools, Candidate Experience, Gtm Recruiting
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