Contract Recruiter (Entry level - SF)

Valon is building the AI-native operating system for regulated finance, starting with mortgage servicing.
We're a Series C company backed by a16z, transforming industries that others have written off as too complex to innovate.
Rather than build on top of broken legacy systems, we took a different approach: we built and operate our own mortgage servicing business managing $110+ billion in loans. This wasn't the end goal, it was how we deeply understood the complexity needed to build software that actually works in regulated industries.
The results speak for themselves. We've transformed mortgage servicing from a 0% margin business into 60%+ margins while dramatically improving customer experience. Major enterprise contracts are now deploying across the industry.
ValonOS is our unified platform that makes every process structured and programmable and it is perfectly positioned for the AI era. When everything flows through one system with rich data, AI agents don't just automate tasks, they continuously improve entire operations. Mortgage servicing is just the beginning of our vision to transform regulated industries and beyond.

Early career role - training will be provided!

Recruiting at Valon isn’t support. It’s the engine.

Every hire we make compounds our ability to build the AI-native operating system that will run trillion-dollar regulated industries. That means the people who identify, engage, and coordinate exceptional talent aren’t peripheral to the mission — they help create the conditions for the mission to scale.

We’re looking for a Contract Recruiter focused on sourcing and university recruiting efforts across our technical teams. In this role, you’ll help build and maintain high-quality early-career and experienced-candidate pipelines, support university recruiting programs, coordinate candidate processes with speed and care, and ensure every touchpoint reflects the rigor and ambition of Valon.

This is a contract role for someone who is operationally excellent, highly organized, and energized by the details that make recruiting systems work: clean pipelines, thoughtful outreach, tight follow-up, well-run events, and a candidate experience that feels precise, human, and high-trust.

You’ll partner closely with recruiters, hiring managers, and cross-functional teams to help Valon identify and engage top talent through sourcing campaigns, career fairs, university events, candidate coordination, and recruiting operations.

• You see sourcing as a volume game rather than a quality and precision game

• You’re comfortable letting candidates sit in limbo or waiting for someone else to follow up

• You struggle to manage many moving pieces across candidates, events, schools, and stakeholders

• You need a fully built process to be effective — we’re still building ours

• You view university recruiting as just event attendance instead of relationship-building, pipeline development, and thoughtful follow-through

• You’re not detail-oriented enough to keep systems, schedules, and candidate communications clean

• You’re uncomfortable using data, tools, or AI to improve speed, quality, and organization

Build and maintain high-quality candidate pipelines

Source technical talent across engineering, product, data, and early-career roles. You’ll identify strong prospects, conduct candidate research, draft personalized outreach, maintain organized pipelines, and ensure promising candidates are surfaced quickly to the recruiting team.

Support university recruiting programs

Help execute Valon’s university recruiting strategy across target schools and early-career channels. This may include preparing for career fairs, coordinating campus events, managing candidate follow-up, tracking student pipelines, and helping ensure every university touchpoint is polished, organized, and high-impact.

Coordinate career fairs and recruiting events

Own the details that make recruiting events successful: attendee tracking, candidate capture, resume review workflows, event materials, post-event follow-up, scheduling, and pipeline organization. You’ll help turn events into measurable recruiting outcomes, not one-off activities.

Deliver an exceptional candidate experience

Keep candidates moving with urgency and care. You’ll coordinate interviews, manage communications, help prepare candidates for each step, and ensure no one is left waiting without context. Every interaction should feel thoughtful, timely, and high-trust.

Partner closely with recruiters and hiring teams

Work with recruiters and hiring managers to understand role requirements, sourcing priorities, event goals, and candidate profiles. You’ll help ensure pipelines are aligned with what teams actually need and that recruiting efforts are clearly communicated.

Use tools and AI to improve recruiting execution

Use AI and recruiting tools to increase the quality and speed of sourcing, candidate research, outreach personalization, event follow-up, pipeline tracking, and workflow automation. You should be curious, resourceful, and eager to find better ways to work.

Keep recruiting systems clean and actionable

Maintain accurate candidate records, pipeline stages, event tracking, outreach activity, and follow-up notes. You’ll help ensure the recruiting team has the data and visibility needed to make fast, informed decisions.

• Experience in sourcing, recruiting coordination, university recruiting, talent operations, or a related recruiting support role

• Strong interest in technical recruiting, early-career talent, and high-growth hiring environments

• Excellent organization and attention to detail across scheduling, candidate communication, event logistics, and pipeline management

• Ability to manage multiple priorities at once without dropping details

• Strong written communication skills, especially for candidate outreach and follow-up

• Comfort working with recruiters, hiring managers, candidates, university partners, and cross-functional stakeholders

• A high-agency mindset: you notice what needs to be done, take ownership, and follow through without needing every step defined

• Familiarity with recruiting tools, applicant tracking systems, sourcing platforms, spreadsheets, and AI tools

• Strong candidate-first instincts and a belief that speed, clarity, and care matter at every stage of the process

• Curiosity, resilience, and comfort operating in ambiguity as we continue to build and improve our recruiting processes

Impact. Every hire you close directly accelerates the AI-native OS that will transform how regulated finance operates. This isn't hypothetical — our platform already manages millions of homeowner accounts.

Innovation. AI isn't a feature at Valon. It's the architecture. You'll recruit for a company where the product thesis and the internal operating model are both AI-native.

Team. A small, high-talent-density recruiting squad where your ideas get pressure-tested and shipped — not buried in a backlog.

Growth. We're scaling beyond mortgage servicing into the broader regulated finance ecosystem. The recruiting function you help build now will power that expansion.

Throughout the interview process, please remember that emails will only be from valon.com email addresses. We will never ask for any personally identifiable information during the interview process itself. Please reach out to [email protected] if you have any requests to verify the authenticity of an outreach.

Valon is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. Valon makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.