About the Role
Recruiting at Valon is the engine driving the company's mission to build an AI-native operating system for regulated finance. This role focuses on finding, assessing, and closing critical technical talent, treating recruiting as a system to be built, measured, and improved, with a strong emphasis on leveraging AI for efficiency and effectiveness.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end pipelines with urgency, sourcing, assessing, and closing technical talent.
- Act as a strategic partner, providing market intelligence and data-driven insights on job descriptions, compensation, and interview processes.
- Craft compelling narratives to attract top engineering, product, and data talent.
- Ensure an exceptional candidate experience through precise, human, and high-trust interactions.
- Utilize AI tools for sourcing, personalization, pipeline analysis, candidate research, and workflow automation.
- Build recruiting processes as a product, focusing on repeatability, measurability, and compounding improvements.
- Draft job descriptions, refine interview loops, and create sourcing playbooks.
Requirements
- Proven track record closing technical roles (engineering, product, data) in high-growth or complex environments.
- Demonstrated experience with AI experimentation in recruiting, including specific tools, automated workflows, and outcomes.
- High agency, taking ownership, driving outcomes, and proactively fixing issues.
- Ability to translate complex business concepts into compelling talent attraction narratives.
- Sharp pattern recognition for identifying top technical talent.
- Resilience in the face of rejection, slow closes, and ambiguity.
- Strong data instincts, with the ability to track metrics, spot trends, and inform decisions with data.
- Excellent communication skills to build trust with candidates and hiring managers.
Skills
- Technical recruiting
- Full-cycle recruiting
- Sourcing
- Candidate assessment
- Closing candidates
- AI tools for recruiting
- Data analysis
- Market intelligence
- Candidate experience
- Building recruiting processes
- Technical interviewing
- Talent attraction
- Communication
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Mid-level
- Senior-level
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary with a meaningful stake in the company via equity
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Meaningful equity stake
- 401k plan
- Comprehensive medical, dental, & vision benefits
- Pre-tax commuter benefits for public transportation, rideshare, 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.
- A Series C company backed by a16z, transforming complex industries.
- Operates its own mortgage servicing business managing over $110 billion in loans to deeply understand industry complexities.
- Transformed mortgage servicing margins from 0% to over 60% while improving customer experience.
- ValonOS is a unified platform designed for the AI era, enabling automation and continuous improvement of operations.
- Aims to transform regulated industries and beyond.
Equal Opportunity
- Valon is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.
- Prohibits 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.
