Founding Talent

Job Description

In this role, you will play a pivotal part in fueling the company's growth by identifying, attracting, and hiring top-tier talent. You'll own the entire hiring process, partnering closely with Chariot’s leadership team, while designing and executing a strategic approach to recruiting.

You'll lead full cycle recruiting for a diverse range of roles, including highly specialized and leadership positions, ensuring a seamless and exceptional candidate experience along the way. To learn more about Chariot’s hiring philosophy see this page in our handbook.

What You’ll Do As Our First Talent Hire

Lead Talent:

• Maniacally focus on building a world class team set on revolutionizing charitable payments

• Partner with leadership to understand hiring needs and refine our talent strategy

• Coordinate interviews ensuring every candidate who interacts with Chariot has a positive experience

• Represent the company brand externally, providing a strong first impression as the primary contact for prospective hires

Build the System:

• Identify top candidates for hire through calls, resume screening, and cutting through the noise

• Build candidate pipeline through research, networking, events, and out of the box outreach

• Set up, maintain, and report on recruiting funnel metrics to ensure we hit hiring goals

About You

• Organized and detail-oriented - you can juggle multiple roles and complex logistics

• Scrappy and self-directed - you take ownership, use data to drive decisions, and don't need hand holding

• Sourcing chops - able to go beyond LinkedIn with scrappy, creative tactics

• Strong communicator who builds rapport quickly and acts as a strategic partner to founders and candidates

• Bonus: Full-cycle recruiting experience in high growth startups with a track record of closing key roles

What you’ll get from Chariot

At Chariot, we are building modern, end-to-end payment infrastructure making donors' lives easier, and nonprofits' lives better. $600B gets donated to charity each year in the US and the existing technology/infrastructure was still built for our grandparents generation. Chariot is here to change that.

• Traction. Annualizing over $1.8B in payment volume through Chariot. Tens of thousands of nonprofits already onboarded including American Cancer Society, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and University of Pennsylvania.

• Impact: That money services nonprofits working in homelessness, health, education, the environment, and so much more.

• Market opportunity: Billion dollar revenue opportunity. Fintech company operating in an untapped $600B market

• The Team. >30% of Charioteers are former founders. NYC office, in-person Monday through Thursday, WFH Friday. The public handbook shows how we operate.

❤️ Employee Benefits

• Healthcare: Comprehensive healthcare, including options that are 100% covered by Chariot for you

• Time-Off: 18 days PTO and 13 holidays - take the time off that you want and need to relax and recharge

• Parental Leave: 100% paid parental leave, including 12 weeks for primary caregivers

• ️ Team Lunches: Weekly team lunches

• Dinner on Chariot: Free dinner every day at office past 8pm

• Team Events: Monthly team building events

• Employee-friendly equity: 2 year exercise window and double-trigger acceleration

• Company Retreats: To get away - we all convene 2-3x / year company retreats

• Matching Gifts: Matching DAFs and daily charitable giving through GoodToday