Recruiting Manager, Upstart
Engineering
$135-186k
+ Target bonuses & equity compensation
More information about location
AI lending marketplace
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AI lending marketplace
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$135-186k
+ Target bonuses & equity compensation
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable effortless credit based on true risk.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience in talent acquisition or recruiting, including proven success building and managing recruiting teams
- Strong track record as a full lifecycle technical recruiter, with expertise across various engineering disciplines
- Demonstrated ability to align recruiting strategy with business goals and lead teams through ambiguity and change
- Skilled in stakeholder management and confident engaging with senior technical leaders
- Familiarity with applicant tracking systems and other modern talent acquisition tools
Desirable
- Experience supporting a mix of volume hiring and hard-to-fill technical roles
- Strategic mindset with the ability to balance short-term hiring needs with long-term team-building goals
- Deep commitment to recruiter development and performance coaching
- Comfort working in a high-growth, fast-paced environment with evolving priorities
What the job involves
- Upstart’s Talent Acquisition team builds inclusive, high performing teams by attracting and hiring top talent that drive Upstart’s success
- As the Engineering Recruiting Manager at Upstart, you will lead a team of 8 full lifecycle recruiters focused on technical hiring
- You’ll own the strategy and execution of engineering recruiting initiatives across all technical functions, partnering closely with senior engineering leaders to understand business needs and scale effectively
- You’ll be the kind of manager your team aspires to become—an exceptional recruiter yourself who leads from the front, models recruiting excellence, and invests deeply in building top-notch recruiters in return
- Lead, coach, and inspire a team of full lifecycle recruiters focused on technical hiring across a range of engineering roles and levels
- Own the strategy, roadmap, and execution of Upstart’s engineering recruiting efforts, ensuring alignment with broader company objectives
- Serve as a hands-on recruiting expert, setting a high bar through direct engagement with key searches and demonstrating best-in-class recruiting practices
- Act as a trusted partner to engineering and product leaders by offering strategic insights, talent market expertise, and regular updates on pipeline health
- Build scalable and effective recruiting processes that enhance candidate experience and drive quality, speed, and efficiency
- Drive adoption and optimization of recruiting tools and systems, including applicant tracking systems and data reporting frameworks
- This team operates on the East/West Coast time zones
Our take
Business startups across the world usually seek out funding, but this is often difficult for companies led by millenials. Millennial entrepreneurs with an excellent track record in business are increasingly requiring access to these loans, but their lack of credit history results in proposals frequently being declined.
Upstart provides loans that are aimed towards the target audience of millennials with entrepreneurial intentions, offering low interest rates that average at 12%. The company claims these rates are 10% lower than traditional lenders, and the service aims towards ensuring that the client is subject to no further fees (such as prepayment penalties).
Upstart claims that its unique selling point lies in the fact that its loans are funded the day after approval. Whilst the service focuses on personal loans for business, the company has also expanded to offer loans for car refinancing. Over 2022 and 23, Upstart's stocks fell dramatically and an investigation was undertaken by a law firm representing the company's long-term investors over alleged security law violations by its board of directors. However, the end of 2023 saw a 20% stock value rise for Upstart after its partnership with Mutual Security Credit Union led to a rise in customers, indicating that it is on the up after a difficult two years.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2019
$50m
SERIES D
Mar 2017
$32.5m
SERIES D
Total funding: $135.7m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health plans
- 401k Plan
- Life insurance
- Disability insuranc
- Generous vacation policy
- Flexible time off
- Parental leave
- Technology equipment budget
- Personal development budget
- Various clubs and extracurricular activities
- Catered lunches
- Fully-stocked micro-kitchen
Company HQ
South San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
David Girouard
(CEO)They started their career at Accenture and Booz Allen & Hamilton before working in Product Management at Apple and Virage. They left their role of 8 years as President of Enterprise at Google to found Upstart in March 2012.
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