Shape the Future of Finance
Pagaya is building a leading artificial intelligence network to help our partners grow their businesses and better serve their customers.
Pagaya is a global technology company making life-changing financial products and services available to more people nationwide, as it reshapes the financial services ecosystem. By using machine learning, a vast data network and a sophisticated AI-driven approach, Pagaya provides comprehensive consumer credit and residential real estate solutions for its partners, their customers, and investors. Its proprietary API and capital solutions integrate into its network of partners to deliver seamless user experiences and greater access to the mainstream economy. Pagaya has offices in New York and Tel Aviv. For more information, visit pagaya.com.
Let's create better outcomes together!
About the Role
Pagaya is seeking a Senior Director to serve as a trusted advisor and partner to our U.S. leadership team. This is a high-impact, hands-on role reporting directly to the Global Head of People, responsible for driving the next phase of Pagaya’s people strategy across talent development, compensation, analytics, and business partnership.
The ideal candidate will blend strategic thinking with deep executional excellence, bringing a sophisticated understanding of how people strategy supports business growth in complex, regulated environments. This leader will shape our U.S. people agenda while serving as a critical connector to Pagaya’s global People team.
Responsibilities
Strategic Business Partnership
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior business leaders across the U.S., influencing decisions on organizational design, leadership development, workforce planning, and culture.
- Partner with executive stakeholders to design and implement strategies that attract, retain, and grow top talent.
- Serve as a sounding board and coach to leaders navigating scaling challenges and change management.
Talent Development & Performance Effectiveness
- Lead enterprise-level talent and leadership development initiatives, including performance, succession, and capability-building programs.
- Partner with the Global Head of People to establish a cohesive, scalable talent framework that aligns with Pagaya’s long-term strategy.
- Champion a culture of accountability, continuous feedback, and growth across all levels of the organization.
Compensation & People Analytics
- Oversee U.S. compensation strategy and execution, including benchmarking, pay equity, and year-end cycles.
- Drive insights through data: build and interpret people analytics dashboards that inform executive decision-making.
- Partner cross-functionally with Finance and global People teams to ensure alignment of compensation philosophy and talent metrics.
Leadership & Influence
- Serve as a key member of the People leadership team, contributing to global people strategy and operating model evolution.
- Provide mentorship and guidance to HR Business Partners and cross-functional peers, fostering an integrated, strategic HR approach.
- Represent the People function in executive-level discussions, influencing decisions through data, insight, and business acumen.
Requirements
- 12+ years of progressive HR/People experience, including 5+ years leading strategic business partnership or center-of-excellence functions.
- Proven success supporting senior executives in financial services, capital markets, hedge funds, top fintechs, management consulting or other high-growth environments.
- Deep experience across org design, talent development, analytics, compensation, succession, and talent strategy with the ability to translate data into actionable insights.
- Exceptional communication and executive presence; able to distill complexity into clarity for senior audiences.
- Highly analytical and commercially minded, with a bias toward execution and impact.
- Comfortable operating in a dynamic, evolving organization with global stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.
The pay ranges for New York-based hires are commensurate with candidate experience.
Pay ranges for candidates working in locations other than New York may differ based on the cost of labor in that location.
Our Team
Pagaya was founded in 2016 by seasoned research, finance, and technology entrepreneurs with our head quarters 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 Pagaya team member is solving new and exciting challenges every day in a culture based on partnership, collaboration, and community.
Join a team of builders who are working every day to enable better outcomes for our partners and their customers.
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.
More than just a job
We believe health, happiness, and productivity go hand-in-hand. That's why we're continually looking to enhance the ways we support you with benefits programs and perks that allow every Pagayan to do the best work of their life.
Top Skills
What We Do
Pagaya is financial technology company that enables financial institutions to expand access to more customers through its artificial intelligence network
