Talent Sourcer
About The Position
Payward, the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services, and CF Benchmarks, has spent the last 15 years building a modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platform to advance an open, global financial system. Payward Services is an enterprise infrastructure platform that enables companies to seamlessly integrate trading, payments, funding, and digital asset services through a single unified system. It provides coordinated liquidity, custody, compliance, risk management, and settlement capabilities, reducing operational complexity for fintechs, banks, brokerages, and payment providers. The Global Sourcing team is looking for an exceptional Sourcer to help build the future of global finance at Payward. This is a high-bar role requiring extreme ownership, sound judgment, and the ability to navigate complex hiring challenges in a fully remote, high-agency, async-first environment where speed and quality are the standard. This role is differentiated by managing uncertainty in a rapidly innovating field, requiring subject matter expertise in fintech or the ability to quickly bridge that gap, a fast pace across various roles and payzones, a builder mentality, and strong teamwork. In return, the company offers the chance to make a significant impact in an innovative company and join a world-class, high-performance team.
Requirements
- Exceptional track record sourcing talent for reputable, fast-growing, high bar technology/product businesses against ruthless competition.
- High craft - Ability to translate hiring needs into accurate sourcing strategies; strong expertise in boolean/X-ray sourcing
- High motor
- Scrappiness - you do not see problems but opportunities
- Strong product sense
- Sound appreciation for the fundamentals of talent acquisition, but creative and inquisitive when considering modern tactics
- High agency, strong bias for action, and the confidence to push boundaries, influence stakeholders, and close exceptional talent without compromise.
- Comfort in the chaos, thriving in ambiguity, owning your outcomes, and moving with urgency in a fully async, remote-native setting
- Ability to produce compelling market intelligence based on business and industry knowledge - Fintech/crypto understanding required.
Nice To Haves
- Bonus points if you’ve hacked it in crypto, fintech or any product-driven org
Responsibilities
- Partner with Hiring Managers and Recruiters to design and execute effective hiring strategies
- Gather, organise and communicate competitive market intelligence, identifying where target talent exists and sharing industry trends
- Collaborate with the broader sourcing team in leveraging best practices across research techniques, boolean searches, tools, networking and other sourcing methods
- Independently develop and maintain candidate flow across a variety of disciplines, leveraging data to drive decision making and process improvement
- Source candidates through a variety of search resources (social media, internal database, job boards, networking, internet searches, etc.)
- Be an ambassador to Kraken/Payward, sharing our values and drive brand awareness in the market
- Participate in research projects and other initiatives which improve the infrastructure of hiring
Benefits
- the chance to leave a mark in one of the most innovative companies in the space
- the opportunity to join a world-class and high-performance team
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
