Technical Recruiter
Avant is a high growth financial technology company, dedicated to lowering the barriers of borrowing for all consumers. Since 2012, Avant has secured more than $4 billion in funding and connected customers to over $5 billion through 800,000 transactions and counting. Through big data and machine learning, Avant’s mission is to provide better access to responsible financial products. Avant has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, TechCrunch, Fortune, Bloomberg, and has raised over $600 million of equity capital. Visit www.avant.com, for more information.
Job Description
Avant is scaling our tech team in a BIG way. We will be growing thoughtfully by adding Juniors, Mids, and Seniors to build out a well-rounded team that will continue to deliver amazing code while we add amazing people. It's going to be fun!
If you want a leadership role that will involve sourcing, strategy development, candidate relationship building, strong partnering with the business, freedom to learn and grow, and the sense of accomplishment that comes with being in charge of the most important growth effort for a company, then this is the role for you!
What you do at Avant:
- Build relationships with engineering managers to understand their teams and their needs
- Drive an efficient hiring process to ensure a flawless experience for candidates and interviewers
- Maintain an ongoing pipeline of top talent
- Network in the tech community to keep consistent flow of applicants
- Source and recruit a high volume of candidates
- Research to ensure a deep knowledge of our functions, including Avant's tech stack
- Identify and qualify candidates to assess skills and culture fit for Avant
- Present candidates and provide detailed profile summaries to hiring managers
- Work with managers to extend candidate offers
Why you are a fit for Avant:
- Two years of experience sourcing and assessing tech talent
- Basic knowledge of FinTech or the general technology industry
- Ability to work on multiple projects while balancing efficiency with quality
- A combination of corporate and agency search is preferred
- Entrepreneurial attitude
- Excellent follow-up skills
- Bachelor’s degree is desired
Why Avant is a fit for you:
At Avant, we believe our values make a difference:
We value, support, and help each other grow
We are committed to active inclusion and diversity
We are transparent and believe the best idea wins
We succeed when our customers succeed
We get sh!t done… responsibly
And we keep it fun!
We believe that ideas are more important than titles, everything is more fun together, everyone drives change, and everyone is an owner. While we believe the perks and benefits that we offer are terrific, nothing excites us more than having the ability to collaborate with intelligent, highly-motivated and talented people on challenging problems as we work to change the face of online lending.