Plaid

Recruiting Manager, Product and Design

Plaid

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $129,504 - $289,200 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Lead and inspire a team of recruiters focused on Product, Design, Data Science, and Security hiring, setting clear expectations and fostering high performance.
  • Partner closely with senior leaders and executives across EPD to align on hiring priorities, headcount planning, and long-term talent strategy.
  • Own and operationalize recruiting processes at scale, ensuring they are efficient, consistent, data-driven, and candidate-first.
  • Identify gaps and bottlenecks in the hiring process, propose creative solutions, and implement best practices that improve quality, speed, and experience.
  • Drive strong hiring outcomes by balancing business urgency with thoughtful, inclusive, and high-bar recruiting standards.
  • Build and maintain trusted relationships across the organization, serving as a strategic advisor on hiring, market trends, and talent strategy.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of technical recruiting leadership experience
  • 6+ years of total recruiting experience
  • Proven success partnering with senior leaders during periods of growth and leading process improvements.
  • Experience operationalizing engineering or technical recruiting at scale, with strong knowledge of best practices in hiring.
  • Ability to critically evaluate recruiting processes, propose improvements, and lead change management.
  • Track record of developing and motivating high-performing teams, with a leadership style rooted in collaboration, ownership, and curiosity.
  • A candidate-first philosophy with the ability to balance speed, quality, and experience.
  • Experience in Product Management disciplines (e.g., consumer, platform, growth, infrastructure, or API products), Security or Data Science roles at scale preferred
Benefits
  • Reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
technical recruitingprocess improvementsoperationalizing recruitingdata-driven hiringinclusive recruitingcandidate-first philosophyevaluating recruiting processeschange managementteam developmentmotivating teams
Soft Skills
leadershipcollaborationownershipcuriosityrelationship buildingstrategic advisingcommunicationproblem-solvingcreativityadaptability