Lead Recruiting Partner

Pagaya; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Pagaya in New York hires a Lead Recruiting Partner to own critical hiring across U.S. business, focusing on NYC-based teams spanning Partnerships, Sales, Product, and more.

You will lead full-cycle searches, advise senior leaders with market data, and help scale an AI-forward recruiting function in a fast-paced fintech environment. The role blends execution with strategic partnership, requiring 8+ years of experience, strong sourcing, and deep knowledge of the NYC talent market.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of full-cycle recruiting in fintech or similar environment.
• Strong sourcing capability with AI/automation tools to optimize funnels.
• Knowledge of NYC and US talent markets including compensation trends and equity structures.
• Experience partnering with senior leadership and driving talent decisions with market data.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end recruitment for priority US roles up to Senior Director level, balancing urgency with quality.
• Map markets, build passive pipelines, and engage niche talent.
• Advise hiring managers with market data and structured interview design.
• Maintain Greenhouse data hygiene and generate weekly stakeholder reports.
• Pilot AI-driven sourcing automations to shorten hiring cycles.
• Collaborate with global recruiting peers and People teams on compensation benchmarking and internal mobility.
• Help design and scale internship and early-career programs.
• Mentor and develop the talent acquisition team.

Skills

8+ years recruiting

Fintech/finance recruiting

Full-cycle recruiting

Senior leadership partnering

Market intelligence

Tools

Greenhouse ATS

LinkedIn Recruiter

AI sourcing

Data analytics tools

Job description

About the Role

We are hiring a Lead Recruiting Partner to own and deliver critical hiring across Pagaya’s U.S. business, with a primary focus on our NYC-based teams spanning Partnerships, Sales, Product, Structured Finance, Risk, Capital Markets, and G&A.

This is a senior Individual Contributor role designed for an execution-focused recruiter who thrives in a lean, fast-paced builder environment. At Pagaya, we are transforming traditional talent acquisition into a modern, tech-enabled function. We are actively developing and implementing AI-forward automations to prioritize high-leverage work: precise passive talent engagement, thorough data analysis, and strategic business partnership.

Because our business evolves rapidly, this role requires an adaptable professional who brings operational precision and the flexibility to manage pipelines dynamically to attract top-tier talent in a competitive market. You will manage full-cycle searches from discovery to close, while simultaneously advising senior leadership with market data and contributing to the development of the broader team.

Responsibilities

• Full-Cycle Recruiting: Lead end-to-end recruitment for priority, highly technical, and sometimes confidential U.S.-based roles up to Senior Director level, balancing urgency with an uncompromising quality bar.
• Creative Sourcing & Networking: Map competitive target markets and analyze niche talent pools. Leverage internal networks, cultivate relationships across industry communities, attend conferences, and build long-term passive pipelines to support proactive succession planning and introduce bar-raising talent.
• Strategic Stakeholder Partnership: Serve as a trusted advisor to hiring managers and senior executives, guiding talent decisions using objective market intelligence, compensation analytics, and structured interview design.
• Data Discipline & Leadership Reporting: Maintain flawless Greenhouse ATS hygiene daily, ensuring absolute data compliance and workflow transparency. Package these insights into crisp weekly status reports for stakeholders and senior leadership to drive transparency and remove alignment bottlenecks.
• AI & Automation Integration: Partner with tech and operations teams to adopt, test, and pilot cutting-edge sourcing automations and AI-driven platforms, intentionally converting saved manual hours into hyper-targeted human outreach and compressed hiring cycles.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with global recruiting peers and broader People teams (across the U.S. and Israel) to collaborate on compensation benchmarking, talent planning, and internal mobility strategies.
• Brand & Pitch Optimization: Continually elevate Pagaya's employer brand, market positioning, and candidate pitch, ensuring our messaging remains compelling and clearly differentiates our unique value proposition in a fast-paced fintech landscape.
• Creative Closing & Market Intelligence: Bring real-time talent insights and learnings from the market to provide competitive insights and strategic equity/compensation structuring to successfully close candidates.
• Program Delivery & Mentorship: Help design and expand our internship program and early-career talent acquisition initiatives, playing an active role in mentoring and developing talent acquisition team members within the organization.

Qualifications

• Experience: 8+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience within a Fintech, Consumer Lending, Investment Banking, or fast-growing, tech-forward environment.
• Sourcing Capability & Tech Fluency: Demonstrated expertise mapping highly technical target markets with a strong interest in utilizing advanced tech stacks, automation tools, and AI sourcing platforms to systematically optimize candidate funnels.
• Adaptability & Resilience: High professional maturity with a proven track record of navigating shifting business priorities, complex organizational scales, and rapid structural pivots calmly and effectively.
• Systems Expertise: Advanced command of Greenhouse ATS, LinkedIn Recruiter, AI tools, and data analytics tools, paired with impeccable attention to detail.
• Market Acumen: Deep knowledge of the New York City and broader U.S. talent markets, including shifting compensation trends, equity structures, and competitive dynamics.
• Execution & Value Alignment: A self-directed professional who pairs high-level strategic vision with rigorous, autonomous execution. Strong commitment to learning, inclusion, and continuous improvement—fully aligned with Pagaya’s core values.

Compensation

$150,000 - $180,000 USD (New York-based hires)

Our Team

Pagaya was founded in 2016 by seasoned research, finance, and technology entrepreneurs with its headquarters located in NYC and Tel Aviv. We move fast and smart, identifying new opportunities and building end-to-end solutions from AI models and unique data sources. Every team member is solving new and exciting challenges every day in a culture based on partnership, collaboration, and community.

Our Values

• Continuously Learn - We challenge ourselves for the sake of getting better as individuals, as teams, and as an organization to deliver for our partners.
• Debate and Commit - We respectfully and openly debate to strengthen our ideas and build shared conviction - once we decide, we go all in, together.
• Dream Big and Act - We boldly tackle complex problems, pressure-test solutions in real-time, and adapt with speed and energy.
• Advance Inclusion - We create a world where everyone can win, designing systems that better represent people and generate sustainable value for our employees, partners and investors.
• Be Accountable Together - We proudly own our actions and our results, taking initiative to ensure our work gets over the finish line as a team.

EEO Statement

As set forth in Pagaya’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.