Head of Recruiting

About the role

At Cardless, we’re building a credit‑card and loyalty platform that consumer businesses use to engage their customers. We value curiosity, humility and intensity, moving fast and taking outsized ownership, so a motivated, resource‑ful individual can have an enormous impact on our trajectory.

Key responsibilities

• Own full‑cycle recruiting across all functions, with an early focus on engineering, operations and GTM.
• Build the recruiting function: hiring plan, process, tooling, employer brand and candidate experience.
• Lead and scale a lean recruiting team, emphasizing efficiency, strong processes and clear ownership.
• Partner with hiring managers to define roles, calibrate on candidates and close offers.
• Act as a closer, using creative tactics to win candidates in a competitive market.

Required profile

• 5+ years of recruiting experience at tech companies, with significant engineering hiring.
• Proven experience building or scaling a recruiting function, or senior IC ready to own it.
• Hands‑on mindset; you want to be in the work, not manage from a distance.
• High bar for talent and unwillingness to settle for less.
• Organized, able to run multiple searches in parallel without dropping balls.
• Based in San Francisco and able to work onsite five days a week.

What we offer

• Annual salary $170,000–$230,000 plus equity.
• 100% health, vision & dental primary coverage; 75% dependent coverage.
• Catered lunches and $250/month commuter benefit.
• Parental leave, flexible PTO (minimum 15 days), 401k plan.
• Apple equipment, team‑building events and happy hours.