Founding Recruiter / Head of Talent

About the role

We're looking for a highly autonomous recruiter to help build a world-class team at Abode Money. This role will work closely with the CEO and COO and will own recruiting across functions, with an initial focus on operations, product, engineering, growth, and customer-facing roles.

Responsibilities

• Own Recruiting End-to-End: Manage the full recruiting process from sourcing to offer, including role definition, pipeline management, candidate outreach, screens, interview coordination, feedback collection, references, and closing.
• Build High-Quality Candidate Pipelines: Source exceptional candidates across startup operators, engineers, product builders, growth talent, customer operations leaders, and other high-priority roles.
• Partner Closely with Leadership: Work directly with the CEO, COO, and hiring managers to define hiring needs, calibrate profiles, improve interview loops, and move quickly on top candidates.
• Create a Best-in-Class Candidate Experience: Ensure every candidate has a thoughtful, fast, and professional experience that reflects Abode’s culture and ambition.
• Create Recruiting Systems: Build repeatable processes for sourcing, tracking, interviewing, follow-ups, referrals, and offer management.
• Use Data to Improve Hiring: Track pipeline metrics, conversion rates, sourcing effectiveness, time-to-fill, candidate quality, and offer acceptance rates. Use insights to continuously improve the process.
• Strengthen Our Talent Brand: Help communicate why Abode Money is an exceptional place to build, including through job posts, candidate messaging, referral campaigns, and recruiting collateral.

Qualifications

• You are in Austin or willing to relocate.
• We are in-person 4 days a week.
• You have 2+ years of experience in recruiting, talent, executive search, agency recruiting, startups, consulting, or another high-ownership talent-related role.
• You are comfortable using tools like LinkedIn Recruiter, Ashby, Clay, ChatGPT, or similar systems.
• You have experience building recruiting processes from scratch and experience recruiting for early-stage startups.
• You have experience hiring operators, engineers, product managers, growth marketers, or customer operations roles.
• You have a strong personal network across startups, consulting, banking, tech, or high-performing operator communities.