Financial institutions process billions of transactions every day across cards, ACH, wires, and third party aggregators. But most of that data is difficult to use. Descriptions are inconsistent, merchant names don’t match, and categories vary by payment type.
Spade is a data and AI platform that turns messy transaction strings into structured, verified records — and gives teams the tools to act on it across authorization, attribution, analytics, and AI initiatives. Spade leads the market in terms of merchant coverage, matching accuracy, geolocation data, and speed of transaction enrichment. Customers such as FIS, Bilt, Mercury, Stripe, alongside many other leaders in fintech and financial services, trust Spade's data to enable personalized rewards programs, accurate applied spending rules, precise analytics requests, and innovative AI-powered features.
Spade is a fast growing, Series B company backed by industry experts and top tier investors (including Oak HC/FT, a16z, Flourish Ventures, Y-Combinator, and Gradient Ventures). We’re a lean and execution-oriented hybrid team, passionate about building exceptional products for our growing customer base. We care deeply about diversity of background, experience, and opinion. We value empathy, curiosity, and passion, and strive to create an environment where individuals have autonomy and the ability to take ownership over their work.
What will you be doing?As Spade's first technical recruiter, you'll play an integral part in guiding our growth, with a focus on candidate experience and hiring quality. You'll work across scaling our incredible engineering and data science teams, from building sourcing strategies and partnering with hiring managers, to designing the processes and tooling that scale with us. This is a high-ownership role on a small (but tight-knit) team, where your decisions directly shape the caliber and pace of hiring across the company.
- Manage full-cycle recruiting for technical roles, from intake and job setup through offer close, flexing to non-technical as business priorities evolve
- Partner with hiring managers and founders to define role requirements and interview plans, building process that are efficient and give high-signal
- Build and execute sourcing strategies to generate qualified pipelines, with a focus on passive talent outreach and attracting top-tier talent in competitive markets
- Deliver a high-quality candidate experience at every stage — timely communication, clear expectations, and thoughtful feedback loops that reflect Spade’s company values
- ATS administration (Ashby), including job setup, candidate tracking, interview scheduling workflows, and overall hygiene
- Track and report on hiring metrics — funnel health, hiring velocity, and pipeline bottlenecks — to inform decision-making and recommend adjustments
- Drive recruiting process improvements by evolving templates, scorecards, tooling, and best practices as the team and company scale
Must Have:
- 2+ years in a technical recruiting capacity (with at least 4 years of total work experience, ideally in a talent-related role: coordinating, sourcing, ops, etc)
- General understanding of engineering + data science roles and related technologies
- Experience partnering directly with hiring managers to define role requirements and run structured interview processes
- Comfort owning the full recruiting lifecycle independently — sourcing, screening, coordinating, and supporting offer processes - ideally in a fast-moving, resource-constrained environment
- Proficiency with recruiting tools (ATS, CRM, Sourcing) - Ashby experience a huge plus.
- Empathetic, with strong candidate communication and relationship-building skills, and a track record of delivering delightful candidate experiences
- Based in NYC with ability to work out of our Flatiron office at least 2 days/week
Nice to Have:
- Experience as an early recruiter at a high-growth startup
- Background hiring in fintech, data, or infrastructure companies
- Interest in and experience involving AI to improve hiring velocity, candidate quality, and feedback clarity
- Recruiting Ops experience and/or interest in using data to optimize processes
- Early exposure to recruiting process improvement (templates, scorecards, interview guides)
Why join Spade?
- Be a cultural founder. As an early employee, you’ll play a meaningful role in defining and building our culture.
- Get in on the ground floor. We’re a small but well-funded team – joining now comes with limited risk and unlimited upside.
- Build the next generation of financial infrastructure. Our products will power the next wave of innovation in fintech, helping our customers deliver better, more transparent products and services to the consumer.
Benefits include:
- Competitive compensation and equity package
- Full medical, dental, and vision benefits for US-based employees
- Life & short-term disability insurance
- Unlimited PTO
- Early exercise program
- Extended post-termination exercise period
- 401K for retirement planning
- Hybrid team, with pet-friendly headquarters in NYC
- Paid parental leave
- Work from home stipend
Spade is an equal opportunity employer, committed to building a culture that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive. We believe that having people with different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives not only helps us build the best products for our customers, but also helps us be the best version of ourselves.
Salary Range:- At Spade, we view total compensation as consisting of salary + equity + benefits. We recruit motivated and high performing talent, and work to compensate people in line with the value they bring to our team.
- We aim to pay fairly and competitively, and consider a number of factors in developing compensation offers. These factors include years and breadth of experience, interview performance, market dynamics, and internal equity.
- The anticipated base salary range for this role is between $150,000 and $180,000, and an equity grant.
Skills Required
- 2+ years in a technical recruiting capacity and at least 4 years total work experience
- General understanding of engineering and data science roles and related technologies
- Experience partnering with hiring managers to define role requirements and run structured interview processes
- Ability to own the full recruiting lifecycle independently (sourcing, screening, coordinating, offer support)
- Proficiency with recruiting tools (ATS, CRM, Sourcing) — Ashby experience a plus
- Strong candidate communication and relationship-building skills; track record delivering great candidate experiences
- Based in NYC with ability to work out of Flatiron office at least 2 days/week
- Experience as an early recruiter at a high-growth startup
- Background hiring in fintech, data, or infrastructure companies
- Interest in and experience using AI to improve hiring processes
- Recruiting Ops experience and/or interest in using data to optimize processes
- Exposure to recruiting process improvement (templates, scorecards, interview guides)
Spade Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Spade and has not been reviewed or approved by Spade.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes full medical, dental, and vision, plus short‑term disability. These core protections are prominently presented in job and careers materials.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is positioned as meaningful and paired with early exercise and an extended post‑termination exercise window. These mechanics make options more usable than standard startup terms.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes unlimited PTO and paid parental leave. This breadth supports both rest and family needs.
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What We Do
Spade is the only transaction data enrichment solution backed by real data. We leverage our vast first-party data network to bring instant clarity and context to every purchase and payment—with precisely matched merchant, category, and geolocation details that empower you to build the next generation of financial technology.
