Wealthfront is looking for a Talent Intelligence Analyst to support hiring across Wealthfront, with a specific focus on our engineering organization. You'll work closely with executive partners across the company.
At Wealthfront we ask a lot from hiring managers, who often own the candidate engagement, starting with outreach and continuing throughout the hiring process. This role will help to build a strong conviction in the companies, teams, profiles and individuals the hiring teams are offering their time to. The right hire will be focused on efficiency, not volume.
A successful hire on this team will be comfortable forming a view before they have complete information, and equally comfortable revising it. They will be energized by getting fluent in technical domains, they write clearly under deadline, and they'd rather be specific and occasionally wrong than vague and unfalsifiable. They're strong cross-functional partners who understand a total addressable market and can focus hiring managers on who specifically to target as well as what to avoid. Success will require research rigor, clear writing, and sound judgment.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain talent maps for key functions—which companies, teams, and products actually produce the profile we need, and which present as adjacent but in reality are not
- Write conviction packets for the candidates you advance: what they've built, the evidence behind it, the specific risks, and what an interview would need to resolve
- Make and defend the negative call — we care as much about who you screened out and why as who you passed forward
- Help leaders better frame roles and requirements based on talent market insights
- Identify passive candidates through technical communities, conference talks, open source contributions, and published work — not just search results
- Pull and structure the underlying data: talent flows between competitors, team growth signals, comp and title benchmarks, where a given skill set is concentrated
- Contribute to the team's frameworks, templates, and sourcing playbooks
Qualifications
- 2+ years producing written analyses that someone acted on — executive search research, talent intelligence, technical sourcing, equity research, consulting, or a similar analytical role. Reps with focused research is more critical than recruiting experience.
- A systems thinking orientation with the ability to analyze discrete decisions and their downstream consequences
- An ability to take messy inputs and shape them into a clear, concise output
- Ability to read a technical background and find the signal: a GitHub history, a conference talk, an engineering blog post, a promotion trajectory.
- Strong written communication, with a habit of writing with high specificity.
- Comfortable calibrating with senior leaders: clearly stating how confident you are and what evidence would change it.
- Willingness to disagree constructively, including with a hiring partner who likes a candidate you don’t.
- Bachelor's or Master’s Degree
Estimated annual salary range: $110,000 - $140,000 USD plus equity and a discretionary bonus
Skills Required
- 2+ years producing written analyses in executive search, talent intelligence, technical sourcing, equity research, consulting, or similar analytical roles
- Bachelor's or Master's degree
- Strong written communication and ability to write concise, evidence-based analyses under deadline
- Systems thinking orientation to analyze decisions and downstream consequences
- Ability to read technical backgrounds (GitHub, talks, blog posts) and identify signal
- Ability to take messy inputs and shape them into clear, concise outputs
- Comfortable calibrating with senior leaders and clearly stating confidence and evidence
- Willingness to disagree constructively with hiring partners and defend negative screening decisions
What We Do
Wealthfront is a nextgen banking service. We help you manage your money for both your short-term and long-term goals by providing a Cash Account with checking features and high interest, best-in-class automated investment management, and free financial advice, anytime you want it. We entered into the banking space in a big way this year with the launch of our cash account that offers an interest rate 5x greater than the national average. We’ve been overwhelmed by the response and have grown nearly 100% this year already to manage nearly $20 billion in total client assets. Our ultimate vision is to optimize and automate all of our clients’ finances and build what we call Self-Driving Money™️. We want clients to be able to automatically deposit their paycheck into their Wealthfront account, and let us take care of the rest — paying their bills, topping off their emergency fund or 401(k), and investing the rest based on their specific goals and lifestyle. Join us so you can help us turn this industry on its head and build a service that our clients don't just like, they love. Wealthfront integrates investing and banking services to make it delightfully easy to build long-term wealth. We're on a mission to build a financial system that favors people over institutions and we're just getting started. Through the power of automation, we deliver personalized, powerful products to help both sophisticated investors and those just starting out learn, lower their costs, and grow their wealth. We're one of the highest rated financial app in the Apple App Store and have been recently named the best robo-advisor and cash management accounts by Nerd Wallet and Investopedia. Want to help us re-architect the financial industry?
