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