The Role

As a Sr. Recruiter, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our team and culture by partnering with dynamic leaders and hiring managers to align our values with our corporate hiring goals. You’ll own the entire recruitment process from crafting innovative strategies to sourcing top talent, evaluating candidates, and leading the offer process across a variety of roles. Beyond recruiting, you’ll spearhead initiatives to boost operational efficiency, drive data-backed decision making, and lead impactful change as we grow. If you're passionate about bringing fresh ideas to attract top talent, this is an exciting opportunity to make a real impact. You’ll report directly to the VP of People.

Key Responsibilities

  • Source, recruit, and hire top talent to Pilot.com for a variety of positions 
  • Build exceptional partnerships across all levels of the organization in order to support Pilot’s hiring needs. 
  • Provide data driven insights and analytics to evaluate recruiting performance, identify trends, and optimize hiring strategies to meet company goals. 
  • Collaborate with hiring managers across the organization to implement hiring strategies, including pre-recruiting research and preparation, conducting effective kickoff meetings, aligning on candidate criteria, and effectively managing the offer process.
  • Develop a robust and continuous talent pipeline
  • Manage the Greenhouse ATS ensuring proper configuration, ongoing maintenance, and compliance to implement processes and best practices. 
  • Communicate professionally and maintain a high level of confidentiality at all times both internally and externally.
  • Partner with leadership to proactively identify areas of process improvements for recruiting operations.
  • Ensure a positive recruiting experience with internal partners and candidates
  • Drive hiring manager engagement and satisfaction through effective communication, candidate quality, and demonstrating your recruiting expertise to build trust as a strategic advisor.
  • Collaborate with hiring managers to develop job descriptions
  • Keep abreast of business news as it relates to the recruiting landscape (talent market), company updates, industry/analyst news, and any other relevant news to increase your business knowledge.
  • Assist with other recruiting projects such as employer branding, university recruiting, recruitment marketing, etc.

About You

  • BA/BS in Human Resources, business or related fields is desired
  • 5+ years of in-house (corporate) full life cycle recruiting experience, ideally for software/cloud companies
  • Demonstrated ability and track record of success of filling abroad range of positions in a timely manner
  • Proven track record of creative sourcing strategies to attract talent from direct competitors
  • Must be able to manage conflicting priorities, while being extremely adaptable and flexible
  • Detail oriented and ability to multi-task and manage multiple deadlines
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to take initiative and build strong, productive relationships. 
  • High business acumen with the ability to articulate the company and job openings clearly to candidates, as well as well as driving intelligent conversations with hiring managers
  • Ability to maintain a high level of confidentially with employee information
  • Prior experience working with Greenhouse ATS is desired
  • Strong familiarity utilizing LinkedIn Recruiter
  • Business partner and problem solver

About Pilot

Pilot launched in 2017 to bring the back office into the modern era. Pilot provides small businesses with dedicated finance experts - which Pilot hires as full-time, U.S.-based employees - who learn the ins-and-outs of their business. Pilot integrates directly with the billing, banking, expense, and payroll systems customers already use. With a special blend of custom software and expert bookkeepers, Pilot delivers accurate, consistent bookkeeping and financial management and tax services that give entrepreneurs the freedom to focus on their business.

Pilot has over 1,000 customers and has raised over $170 million in financing from Sequoia, Index Ventures, Stripe, Bezos Expeditions, and Whale Rock.  Our investors also include a long list of world-class entrepreneurs, including Patrick and John Collison, Drew Houston, and Diane Greene.  Our most recent funding round doubled our valuation to $1.2 billion – Meet Fintech’s Newest Unicorn.

Why Pilot?

  • We invest in our employees’ development and happiness because our employees are the keys to our success and ensuring happy customers
  • The opportunity to join a seasoned founding team that has led companies through two prior successful startups and acquisitions (by Oracle and Dropbox).
  • Flexible vacation/time-off policy
  • All federal holidays are observed
  • Competitive benefits package including wellness benefits such as Modern Health, Headscape, One Medical, Aaptiv and Rightway
  • Parental leave for birthing or non-birthing parents – 100% pay for 12 weeks
  • 401(k) plan

The base pay range target for the role seniority described in this job description is $84,800 - $144,000 in most remote locations, and between $106,000 - $144,000 in San Francisco, CA and New York City, NY. Final offer amounts depend on multiple factors such as candidate experience and expertise, geographic location, total compensation, and market data. In addition to cash pay, full-time regular positions are eligible for equity, 401(k), health benefits, and other benefits; some of these benefits may be available for part-time or temporary positions.

Pilot commits to provide a work environment free of discrimination and harassment, as well as equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. You may view all of Pilot’s recruiting notices here, including our EEO policy, recruitment agency policy, recruitment scam notice, and important E-Verify information. You may view our job candidate privacy policy here.

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