Pinwheel - Helping banks win primacy with frictionless account activation solutions
Pinwheel helps banks win primacy by making switching direct deposits easy. Through exclusive and first-of-its-kind partnerships with payroll providers, Pinwheel can instantly authenticate consumers without credentials. This new product provides best-in-class conversion, greater security, better insights, and a seamless UX for switching direct deposits at the world's leading financial institutions.
Pinwheel's platform has enterprise-grade security protocols to power connections to over 1,800 platforms (covering up to 100% of US workers paid via direct deposit) and over 1.5 million employers. From that point of connectivity, leading fintechs and financial institutions (such as Block's Cash App, Citizens Bank, Acorns, Credit Karma, and more) leverage us to power direct deposit switching, earned wage access, income & employment verification, and build innovative new products.
Pinwheel is trusted and funded with $77M by top-tier investors such as Notable, Coatue, First Round Capital, and more.
Who are we looking for?
At Pinwheel, our People Team’s mission is to build a high-performing organization that supports, grows, and retains top talent. As we scale, we’re looking for a Recruiting Lead - with a strong technical recruiting background - to help continue to bring phenomenal talent into the company. You’ll be the main driver for recruiting excellence cross-functionally, ensuring we continue to attract, engage, and hire top, diverse talent that aligns with Pinwheel’s values and growth objectives.
Reporting to the Chief of Staff, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the direction of the Talent and People functions. Given we’re a lean team, there is also room for this role to get involved in people operations work, contributing to our overall people mission. This role’s focus will be on building connectivity, with a 3-day in-office requirement in our NYC headquarters (Union Square).
What will you be doing?
- Manage end to end recruitment processes, ensuring effective and swift talent acquisition outcomes in partnership with hiring managers and executives.
- Independently drive full lifecycle searches across business and technical roles. (consisting of but not limited to: Engineering, Product, GTM, Marketing, and G&A teams), with an emphasis on technical searches.
- Compile, analyze, and capture insights from recruiting data to strategize and set company wide recruiting objectives, uncover talent blindspots, and drive stronger talent outcomes for the organization as a whole.
- Navigate complex offer processes, educating candidates on compensation and equity.
- Drive positive candidate experience and talent branding for Pinwheel from sourcing to closing your hires.
- Manage relationships with external vendors, contractors, and recruiting agencies, balancing fiscal discipline while driving talent outcomes.
- Given there is an ability to support people operations initiatives in this role, other projects you could get involved in may include:
- Supporting the implementation of learning and development programs
- Contributing to onboarding and offboarding best practices
- Partnering with the team on engagement and employee relations initiatives
- Executing other ad hoc people projects in partnership with our Chief of Staff
What experience, skills, and qualifications are necessary?
- Experience hiring for a wide array of technical roles required. Having managed full lifecycle processes for both technical and non-technical roles is a plus.
- 5+ years of experience in recruiting roles overall, with a minimum of 2-3 years working in-house.
- Exposure to early-stage startup environments, hiring for companies that build complex technical products.
- Consistent track record of identifying, sourcing, and hiring top talent for your internal stakeholders.
- Exceptional attention to detail, with an ability to successfully synthesize recruiting insights, create initiatives, and execute autonomously.
- Ability to think on your feet and learn new roles quickly to drive faster time to value for the team.
- Hands-on experience with Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, Brighthire, and other similar recruiting tools.
Why join Pinwheel?
Best time to join - Our company is small but well-funded, meaning you are joining at a time where you can impact and shape the company.
Be a cultural builder - You will have an active hand in molding the company culture and being a part of the entrepreneurial journey.
Build Something Revolutionary - Help build the consumer data infrastructure of the future.
Belong - Join a community that is passionate and relentless about building fairer financial systems for all.
Benefits included:
- Great compensation & equity packages
- Full medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Life & short-term disability insurance
- Unlimited vacation
- Paid parental leave
- 401K for retirement planning
- Mentorship opportunities
- Free Citibike membership
- Pet friendly offices and Zoom spaces
At Pinwheel, total compensation is made up of salary + equity + benefits. We recruit motivated and high performing talent, and work to compensate people in line with the value they can bring to the organization in delivering outsized results. The talent market is competitive, and maintaining our ability to recruit and retain the best team possible is a top priority for Pinwheel. When creating an offer, we consider interview performance, candidate experience, external market competitiveness, and internal equity in thoughtfully assessing compensation. The expected range for this role is $130,000 to $150,000 base salary.
Diversity & Inclusion at Pinwheel
At Pinwheel, we are committed to building an environment that is diverse and inclusive. We believe that having people across different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives enables us not only to build the best financial products, but to help us realize the best versions of ourselves. Pinwheel is an equal opportunity employer, and we aim to be an open and supportive place to work.
As part of our commitment to health and safety, Pinwheel requires employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as permitted under applicable law.
What We Do
More than half of Americans have a poor credit score or no score at all. Since most institutions rely on traditional credit scoring to assess risk, that means these people can't access affordable products. Instead, they resort to high-interest credit cards, payday loans, and trigger overdraft fees to make ends meet — which ultimately push them into deeper cycles of debt.
Pinwheel provides an API platform that makes it easy to connect payroll accounts like ADP and Gusto to any app. By unlocking the wealth of identity, income and employment data that sits in these systems, alongside direct access to paychecks, we can help innovators build the next generation of products that increase access for the underserved while improving the businesses of our partner fintechs, banks, and lenders.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.