[Remote] Recruiting Manager, Specialized Tech

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Plaid is a company dedicated to empowering the transformation of financial interactions through innovative tools. The Recruiting Manager for Specialized Tech will lead a team focused on hiring top talent across Product, Design, Data Science, and Security, while partnering with senior leaders to shape hiring strategies and improve recruiting processes.


Responsibilities

  • Lead and inspire a team of recruiters focused on Product, Design, Data Science, and Security hiring, setting clear expectations and fostering high performance
  • Partner closely with senior leaders and executives across EPD to align on hiring priorities, headcount planning, and long-term talent strategy
  • Own and operationalize recruiting processes at scale, ensuring they are efficient, consistent, data-driven, and candidate-first
  • Identify gaps and bottlenecks in the hiring process, propose creative solutions, and implement best practices that improve quality, speed, and experience
  • Drive strong hiring outcomes by balancing business urgency with thoughtful, inclusive, and high-bar recruiting standards
  • Build and maintain trusted relationships across the organization, serving as a strategic advisor on hiring, market trends, and talent strategy

Skills

  • 3+ years of technical recruiting leadership experience
  • 6+ years of total recruiting experience
  • Proven success partnering with senior leaders during periods of growth and leading process improvements
  • Experience operationalizing engineering or technical recruiting at scale, with strong knowledge of best practices in hiring
  • Ability to critically evaluate recruiting processes, propose improvements, and lead change management
  • Track record of developing and motivating high-performing teams, with a leadership style rooted in collaboration, ownership, and curiosity
  • A candidate-first philosophy with the ability to balance speed, quality, and experience
  • Experience in Product Management disciplines (e.g., consumer, platform, growth, infrastructure, or API products), Security or Data Science roles at scale preferred

Company Overview

  • Plaid develops financial technology infrastructure that enables applications to connect with users' bank accounts and financial data. It was founded in 2013, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://plaid.com.

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