[Hiring] Senior Talent Partner @Shakepay

Role Description

As a Senior Talent Partner you’ll be the primary recruiter on the team and own high-impact searches end to end. You’ll partner directly with hiring managers and senior leaders, bringing a market-informed point of view, source passive candidates and build recruiting practices that scale as Shakepay grows. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role across both technical and business searches.

What you’ll be doing

• Own full-cycle recruiting for engineering, product, design, GTM and other business roles.
• Partner with hiring managers and senior leaders to define roles, scope, interview process and recruiting strategy.
• Build proactive pipelines across technical and business roles through direct sourcing, target-company research, referrals, professional communities, employer-brand content and other appropriate channels.
• Bring market mapping, compensation context, realistic timelines, and recalibrate expectations when the evidence calls for it.
• Run structured hiring processes: including job descriptions, interview plans, candidate communication, scheduling and scorecards; keep our ATS (Greenhouse) accurate, coach interviewers and facilitate timely debriefs and decisions.
• Track and communicate pipeline health, conversion, candidate experience, hiring-manager responsiveness, decision speed and close risks.
• Give leaders clear progress updates, surface bottlenecks early, and improve playbooks and tools, including responsible automation and AI with human oversight.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including meaningful in-house experience in a high-growth startup environment.
• A record of building proactive passive candidate pipelines and closing hard-to-fill roles across multiple functions.
• Confidence advising hiring managers and senior leaders on role outcomes, leveling, market realities and trade-offs, including the judgment to push back constructively.
• Strong structured-assessment skills and enough technical fluency to turn engineering, product, data or security requirements into credible sourcing and screening plans.
• Experience managing concurrent searches, configuring applicant tracking systems and managing recruiting data to keep the recruiting function running smoothly.
• Excellent communication skills, prioritization and sound judgment.
• Interest and enthusiasm for the possibilities enabled by Bitcoin and non-sovereign money.

Bonus points

• Experience hiring both technical and non-technical talent at a Canadian technology startup, fintech or other regulated company.
• Experience with senior, leadership or especially hard-to-fill searches with a track record of closing.
• Hands-on experience with Greenhouse and sourcing tools such as LinkedIn Recruiter, Pin or similar platforms.
• Experience building recruiting infrastructure and employer brand, or improving hiring through analytics, automation and AI with appropriate human review.
• Bilingual in English and French.

Benefits

• Be an owner: Every employee has stock options as part of their total compensation.
• Reach your goals: Yearly salary assessments.
• Health & wellness: Access to health and dental coverage, including health and wellness spending accounts.
• Remote-friendly: Work from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to our office spaces in Montreal and Toronto.
• Level Up: A $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training to support your career growth.
• Time off: 20 days of vacation per year. And if you use all your vacation, we give you a $1,000 bonus.
• Parental leave: Enjoy a parental leave top up to 100% of your salary for 18 weeks.
• Have fun together: quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsite to connect with each other.