Product Recruiter
Plaid
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $152,000 - $228,000 per year
About the role
- Own the full-cycle recruiting process for Product Management roles, from sourcing and outreach through final rounds and offer close
- Partner directly with senior Product and EPD leaders to deeply understand team goals, role requirements, and success profiles
- Build and manage pipelines of high-quality PM talent through creative sourcing, networking, and market mapping
- Serve as a trusted advisor to hiring managers, providing guidance on hiring strategy, interview design, and candidate experience
- Lead candidate evaluation and final debriefs, ensuring decisions align with Plaid’s hiring bar and values
- Negotiate and close offers thoughtfully, balancing candidate motivations and business needs
- Track and analyze funnel metrics to identify gaps and opportunities for improvement
- Collaborate cross-functionally with other EPD recruiters and recruiting operations to drive consistency, share insights, and refine recruiting playbooks
Requirements
- 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience (in-house strongly preferred)
- Proven track record of full-cycle recruiting for Product Management roles
- Deep understanding of the product discipline, including strategy, execution, and technical fluency
- Strong sourcing skills; able to build targeted pipelines using creative approaches and market intelligence
- Experienced in influencing senior stakeholders and shaping hiring decisions through data, insights, and thoughtful partnership
- Skilled in offer negotiation, closing, and candidate engagement across competitive markets
- Comfortable managing multiple high-priority searches in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
- Candidate-first mindset with a focus on empathy, transparency, and long-term relationship-building
- Data-driven; uses funnel metrics and market insights to guide strategy and improve process
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- Nice to Have:
- Experience recruiting in fintech, SaaS, or platform product environments
- Exposure to client lead or embedded recruiting models, where recruiters act as strategic partners to business leaders
- Demonstrated success building or scaling recruiting programs or playbooks for Product hiring
- Previous experience supporting executive or leadership-level PM hiring
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
full-cycle recruitingsourcingcandidate evaluationoffer negotiationdata analysismarket mappingpipeline managementhiring strategyinterview designcandidate engagement
Soft skills
trusted advisorinfluencing stakeholdersempathytransparencyrelationship-buildingdata-driven decision makingcollaborationcreativityadaptabilitystrategic partnership