Head of Recruiting

Cardless•San Francisco, CA

2d•$170,000 - $230,000•Onsite

About The Position

At Cardless, we're building a credit card and loyalty platform that consumer businesses use to engage their customers. We've launched over a dozen credit card programs, including for Coinbase, Bilt, and Qatar Airways. We help businesses bring imaginative card programs to life, and have pioneered technology to embed credit card features natively into their products. We value curiosity, humility, and intensity — we move fast and take outsized ownership. This is a place where a motivated, resourceful individual can have an enormous impact on our trajectory. We're headquartered in San Francisco, and have raised about $150M in equity funding from top venture capital firms including Spark Capital, American Express, Activant Capital, and more. The Job We're looking for a Head of Talent to build and lead recruiting at Cardless. You'll report directly to our COO and work closely with our founders. This isn't a function that gets delegated and forgotten — leadership is in the weeds on hiring because we believe it's the highest-leverage thing we do. At our stage, each hire over the next year can meaningfully change the trajectory of the business. We want someone who feels the weight of that. This is our first full-time recruiting hire, but you won't be starting from scratch. We've used outsourced recruiters and fractional help to build a foundation — your job is to take it from here and make it yours. You'll have the opportunity to shape the function in your vision while inheriting some momentum. We're planning to grow significantly over the next year. You'll own that hiring plan end-to-end: sourcing, closing, and building a small team to give yourself leverage. This is a hands-on role — we're not looking for someone who wants to manage from above.

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 you're a senior IC ready to step up and own it.
Hands-on. You're not looking to manage a team from a distance; you want to be in the work.
High bar for talent. You know what great looks like and you're not willing to settle.
Creative and relentless closer. You don't just follow the playbook — you find new ways to win.
Organized and fast. You can run multiple searches in parallel without dropping balls.
San Francisco-based and excited to be in-office 5 days a week.

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 — all of it.
Build and lead a lean recruiting team that scales thoughtfully with hiring demand, prioritizing efficiency, strong processes, and clear ownership over simply adding headcount.
Partner with hiring managers to define roles, calibrate on candidates, and close offers.
Be a closer. Do extraordinary things on an ordinary basis to get candidates over the line. We're competing for great people in a highly competitive market.
Move fast. We have aggressive hiring goals and need someone who can keep pace.