Lead Recruiter, Novo
$150k
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office
Digital banking platform for small businesses
Open for applications
Digital banking platform for small businesses
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$150k
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower customers with their financial data and provide the most compelling banking experience possible.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of in-house, full-cycle recruiting experience at startups or scale-ups
- Proven track record hiring across multiple business and technical functions
- Experience collaborating directly with senior and executive stakeholders
- Data-informed, highly organized, and outcome-focused
- Advanced sourcing and search capabilities (Boolean, outreach, etc.)
- Proficient in ATS systems (Greenhouse, Lever, SmartRecruiters, AI based new age ATS) and sourcing tools
- Proficient with reporting, analytics dashboards, and hiring funnel metrics
- Resourceful and creative with a bias toward thoughtful, strategic action
- Strong communicator and relationship builder with high integrity and professionalism
- Demonstrated ability to champion company culture and values throughout the hiring process; seen as a culture ambassador who fosters inclusive, values-driven candidate experiences
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a strategic, hands-on Lead Recruiter to help design and scale a recruiting function that’s efficient, data-informed, and built to attract the kind of talent that drives real results
- You’ll partner closely with the Chief People Officer to architect the next generation of recruiting at Novo—designed for scale, speed, and excellence
- This is a rare opportunity to be both a builder and operator: someone who can meet aggressive hiring goals today while laying the foundation for tomorrow
- Manage full-cycle recruitment, from sourcing and attracting talent, screening, interviewing, offer negotiation, to onboarding support
- Proficient in simultaneously managing multiple requisitions and recruiting initiatives across various domains
- Deep understanding of sourcing platforms, including LinkedIn, GitHub, and AngelList, and sourcing techniques
- Familiarity with Boolean search, proficient in creative sourcing strategies and passive candidate engagement
- Skilled in closing high-quality candidates within competitive markets
- Successfully recruit and hire top talent within competitive markets
- Familiarity with onboarding workflows and transitions to HR operations team
- Build structured, competency-based interview processes and scorecards
- Train hiring managers on best practices for interviewing and decision-making
- Implement automation and AI tools for sourcing, pipeline management, and reporting
- Proactively identify and resolve bottlenecks to accelerate hiring velocity
- Define and track key metrics like time-to-fill, pass-through rates, offer acceptance, quality of hire, DEI pipeline health, and candidate NPS
- Build and maintain reporting dashboards that enable transparency and drive accountability
- Use insights to inform headcount planning and stakeholder decisions
- Serve as a trusted advisor to hiring managers across Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Operations
- Facilitate thoughtful intake meetings, calibration sessions, and hiring debriefs
- Manage expectations and influence decisions with a data-backed, solutions-oriented approach
- Deliver a consistently exceptional candidate experience that reflects Novo’s values
- Embed culture and DEI principles into every step of the hiring process
- Collaborate with the People, Marketing, and Leadership teams on employer brand storytelling and hiring campaigns
- Act as a visible, credible representative of Novo in all candidate-facing moments
- Fill roles within standard TAT to ensure business continuity and team momentum
- Launch intake meetings promptly after role approval to accelerate hiring cycles
- Maintain strong sourcing-to-onsite conversion to reflect top-of-funnel effectiveness
- Boost outreach response rates using Gem, LinkedIn Recruiter, and personalized messaging
- Achieve a healthy interview-to-hire ratio to balance selectivity and speed
- Ensure high candidate NPS to deliver a best-in-class candidate experience
- Lead process improvements using data and recruiting analytics
- Earn high satisfaction scores from hiring managers and internal partners
- Support culture-building initiatives like onboarding, values sessions, and DEI storytelling
Our take
While personal banking transactions are now very swift, these processes are frustratingly not as fast for business users. For smaller businesses, the costs of ensuring banking processes are well managed can be prohibitive, and keeping track of finances often utilises a wide range of apps.
Novo has created one app with a drag-and-drop interface to manage several financial apps in one place helping gain a clearer picture of transactional data more quickly. This is a developing market, providing both opportunity and competition from the likes of Lili, NorthOne, Brex and numerous other Neobanks.
Novo has racked up an impressive roster of SMB customers, and has seen billions of dollars in lifetime transactions. It is also well-funded, affording it the position to scale up its app partnerships whilst consolidating its market position.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
29% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2022
$35m
SERIES B
Jan 2022
$90m
SERIES B
Total funding: $171.5m
Company benefits
- Work Life Balance - Set your own vacation days & enjoy flexible work options for a healthy work-life balance
- Modern Benefits - We invest in the holistic well-being of every team member by offering medical and mental health coverage, retirement assistance, and commuter benefits
- Professional Development - Grow your skills through in house training, online courses & industry conferences to ensure you're always ahead of the curve
- Workspace Your Way - Whether you're based in an office or working remotely, we provide the tools or financial support to make your workspace work for you
- We're A Fun Group - Be part of a diverse culture that believes in working hard and having fun at the same time!
- Cutting Edge Technology - Work with the latest tech to build a world-class product & transform SMB banking with our growing team
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
Leadership
Michael Rangel
(Co-founder & CEO)Their background lies in operations, having previously worked for Fairholme Capital Management and Smith Barney.
Tyler Mcintyre
(Co-founder)MBA from Wharton. They are also an Angel investor.
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