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About the Role
Valon is seeking a Contract Recruiter to focus on sourcing and university recruiting for technical teams. This role is crucial for building and maintaining candidate pipelines, supporting university programs, and ensuring a positive candidate experience. The ideal candidate is operationally excellent, highly organized, and detail-oriented, with a passion for improving recruiting systems.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain high-quality candidate pipelines.
- Source technical talent across engineering, product, data, and early-career roles.
- Identify strong prospects, conduct candidate research, and draft personalized outreach.
- Maintain organized pipelines and ensure promising candidates are surfaced quickly.
- Support university recruiting programs and execute the strategy across target schools.
- Prepare for career fairs, coordinate campus events, and manage candidate follow-up.
- Track student pipelines and ensure polished, organized, and high-impact university touchpoints.
- Coordinate career fairs and recruiting events, including attendee tracking and candidate capture.
- Manage resume review workflows, event materials, post-event follow-up, and pipeline organization.
- Deliver an exceptional candidate experience by keeping candidates moving with urgency and care.
- Coordinate interviews, manage communications, and prepare candidates for each step.
- Partner closely with recruiters and hiring managers to understand role requirements and sourcing priorities.
- Ensure pipelines are aligned with team needs and recruiting efforts are clearly communicated.
- Use AI and recruiting tools to increase the quality and speed of sourcing, research, outreach, and follow-up.
- Automate workflows and find better ways to work.
- Maintain accurate candidate records, pipeline stages, event tracking, and follow-up notes.
- Ensure the recruiting team has the data and visibility needed for fast, informed decisions.
Requirements
- Experience in sourcing, recruiting coordination, university recruiting, talent operations, or a related recruiting support role.
- Strong interest in technical recruiting, early-career talent, and high-growth hiring environments.
- Excellent organization and attention to detail across scheduling, candidate communication, event logistics, and pipeline management.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities at once without dropping details.
- Strong written communication skills, especially for candidate outreach and follow-up.
- Comfort working with recruiters, hiring managers, candidates, university partners, and cross-functional stakeholders.
- A high-agency mindset: notice what needs to be done, take ownership, and follow through without needing every step defined.
- Familiarity with recruiting tools, applicant tracking systems, sourcing platforms, spreadsheets, and AI tools.
- Strong candidate-first instincts and a belief that speed, clarity, and care matter at every stage of the process.
- Curiosity, resilience, and comfort operating in ambiguity as we continue to build and improve our recruiting processes.
Skills
- Sourcing
- Recruiting coordination
- University recruiting
- Talent operations
- Technical recruiting
- Early-career talent acquisition
- High-growth hiring
- Organization
- Attention to detail
- Scheduling
- Candidate communication
- Event logistics
- Pipeline management
- Prioritization
- Written communication
- Stakeholder management
- Recruiting tools
- Applicant tracking systems (ATS)
- Sourcing platforms
- Spreadsheets
- AI tools
- Candidate experience management
- Relationship building
- Data analysis
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Contract
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Not specified
Education Level
- Not specified
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, & vision benefits
- Pre-tax commuter benefits for public transportation, rideshare services, and parking
- Company-wide orientation
- Learning & development opportunities
- Regular review cycles with 360-degree feedback
- Quarterly budgets for team and company outings
- Flexible paid time off
- Sick days
- 11 company holidays
- 12 weeks fully paid baby bonding time for both birthing and non-birthing parents
About the Company
- Valon is building the AI-native operating system for regulated finance, starting with mortgage servicing.
- We are a Series C company backed by a16z, transforming industries considered too complex to innovate.
- We built and operate our own mortgage servicing business managing over $110 billion in loans to deeply understand the complexity required for software in regulated industries.
- Our approach has transformed mortgage servicing from a 0% margin business to over 60% margins while improving customer experience.
- ValonOS is our unified platform designed for the AI era, making processes structured and programmable.
- Our vision is to transform regulated industries and beyond by enabling AI agents to continuously improve entire operations.
Equal Opportunity
- Valon is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.
- We prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic.
- Hiring decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs.