Tech Recruiter

Financial institutions process billions of transactions every day across cards ACH wires and third party aggregators. But most of that data is difficult to use. Descriptions are inconsistent merchant names don’t match and categories vary by payment type.

Spade is a data and AI platform that turns messy transaction strings into structured verified records — and gives teams the tools to act on it across authorization attribution analytics and AI initiatives. Spade leads the market in terms of merchant coverage matching accuracy geolocation data and speed of transaction enrichment. Customers such as FIS Bilt Mercury Stripe alongside many other leaders in fintech and financial services trust Spade's data to enable personalized rewards programs accurate applied spending rules precise analytics requests and innovative AI-powered features.

Spade is a fast growing Series B company backed by industry experts and top tier investors (including Oak HC/FT a16z Flourish Ventures Y-Combinator and Gradient Ventures). We’re a lean and execution-oriented hybrid team passionate about building exceptional products for our growing customer base. We care deeply about diversity of background experience and opinion. We value empathy curiosity and passion and strive to create an environment where individuals have autonomy and the ability to take ownership over their work.

As Spade's first technical recruiter you'll play an integral part in guiding our growth with a focus on candidate experience and hiring quality. You'll work across scaling our incredible engineering and data science teams from building sourcing strategies and partnering with hiring managers to designing the processes and tooling that scale with us. This is a high-ownership role on a small (but tight-knit) team where your decisions directly shape the caliber and pace of hiring across the company.

• Manage full-cycle recruiting for technical roles from intake and job setup through offer close flexing to non-technical as business priorities evolve

• Partner with hiring managers and founders to define role requirements and interview plans building process that are efficient and give high-signal

• Build and execute sourcing strategies to generate qualified pipelines with a focus on passive talent outreach and attracting top-tier talent in competitive markets

• Deliver a high-quality candidate experience at every stage — timely communication clear expectations and thoughtful feedback loops that reflect Spade’s company values

• ATS administration (Ashby) including job setup candidate tracking interview scheduling workflows and overall hygiene

• Track and report on hiring metrics — funnel health hiring velocity and pipeline bottlenecks — to inform decision-making and recommend adjustments

• Drive recruiting process improvements by evolving templates scorecards tooling and best practices as the team and company scale

Must Have:

• 2+ years in a technical recruiting capacity (with at least 4 years of total work experience ideally in a talent-related role: coordinating sourcing ops etc)

• General understanding of engineering + data science roles and related technologies

• Experience partnering directly with hiring managers to define role requirements and run structured interview processes

• Comfort owning the full recruiting lifecycle independently — sourcing screening coordinating and supporting offer processes - ideally in a fast-moving resource-constrained environment

• Proficiency with recruiting tools (ATS CRM Sourcing) - Ashby experience a huge plus.

• Empathetic with strong candidate communication and relationship-building skills and a track record of delivering delightful candidate experiences

• Based in NYC with ability to work out of our Flatiron office at least 2 days/week

Nice to Have:

• Experience as an early recruiter at a high-growth startup

• Background hiring in fintech data or infrastructure companies

• Interest in and experience involving AI to improve hiring velocity candidate quality and feedback clarity

• Recruiting Ops experience and/or interest in using data to optimize processes

• Early exposure to recruiting process improvement (templates scorecards interview guides)

• Be a cultural founder. As an early employee you’ll play a meaningful role in defining and building our culture.

• Get in on the ground floor. We’re a small but well-funded team – joining now comes with limited risk and unlimited upside.

• Build the next generation of financial infrastructure. Our products will power the next wave of innovation in fintech helping our customers deliver better more transparent products and services to the consumer.

• Competitive compensation and equity package

• Full medical dental and vision benefits for US-based employees

• Life & short-term disability insurance

• Unlimited PTO

• Early exercise program

• Extended post-termination exercise period

• 401K for retirement planning

• Hybrid team with pet-friendly headquarters in NYC

• Paid parental leave

• Work from home stipend

• At Spade we view total compensation as consisting of salary + equity + benefits. We recruit motivated and high performing talent and work to compensate people in line with the value they bring to our team.

• We aim to pay fairly and competitively and consider a number of factors in developing compensation offers. These factors include years and breadth of experience interview performance market dynamics and internal equity.

• The anticipated base salary range for this role is listed above (in USD).

Spade is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture that is diverse equitable and inclusive. We believe that having people with different backgrounds experiences abilities and perspectives not only helps us build the best products for our customers but also helps us be the best version of ourselves.

What We Do

Spade is the only transaction data enrichment solution backed by real data. We leverage our vast first-party data network to bring instant clarity and context to every purchase and payment—with precisely matched merchant category and geolocation details that empower you to build the next generation of financial technology.