Lead Recruiting Partner

About the Role

We are hiring a Lead Recruiting Partner to own and deliver critical hiring across Pagaya’s U.S. business, with a primary focus on our NYC-based teams spanning Partnerships, Sales, Product, Structured Finance, Risk, Capital Markets, and G&A.

This is a senior Individual Contributor role designed for an execution-focused recruiter who thrives in a lean, fast-paced builder environment. At Pagaya, we are transforming traditional talent acquisition into a modern, tech-enabled function. We are actively developing and implementing AI-forward automations to prioritize high-leverage work: precise passive talent engagement, thorough data analysis, and strategic business partnership.

Because our business evolves rapidly, this role requires an adaptable professional who brings operational precision and the flexibility to manage pipelines dynamically to attract top-tier talent in a competitive market. You will manage full-cycle searches from discovery to close, while simultaneously advising senior leadership with market data and contributing to the development of the broader team.

• Full-Cycle Recruiting: Lead end-to-end recruitment for priority, highly technical, and sometimes confidential U.S.
  
  -based roles up to Senior Director level, balancing urgency with an uncompromising quality bar.
• Creative Sourcing & Networking: Map competitive target markets and analyze niche talent pools. Leverage internal networks, cultivate relationships across industry communities, attend conferences, and build long-term passive pipelines to support proactive succession planning and introduce bar-raising talent.
• Strategic Stakeholder Partnership: Serve as a trusted advisor to hiring managers and senior executives, guiding talent decisions using objective market intelligence, compensation analytics, and structured interview design.
• Data Discipline & Leadership Reporting: Maintain flawless Greenhouse ATS hygiene daily, ensuring absolute data compliance and workflow transparency. Package these insights into crisp weekly status reports for stakeholders and senior leadership to drive transparency and remove alignment bottlenecks.
• AI & Automation Integration: Partner with tech and operations teams to adopt, test, and pilot cutting-edge sourcing automations and AI-driven platforms, intentionally converting saved manual hours into hyper-targeted human outreach and compressed hiring cycles.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with global recruiting peers and broader People teams (across the U.S. and Israel) to collaborate on compensation benchmarking, talent planning, and internal mobility strategies.
• Brand & Pitch Optimization: Continually elevate Pagaya's employer brand, market positioning, and candidate pitch, ensuring our messaging remains compelling and clearly differentiates our unique value proposition in a fast-paced fintech landscape.
• Creative Closing & Market Intelligence: Bring real-time talent insights and learnings from the market to provide competitive insights and strategic equity/compensation structuring to successfully close candidates.
• Program Delivery & Mentorship: Help design and expand our internship program and early-career talent acquisition initiatives, playing an active role in mentoring and developing talent acquisition team members within the organization.

• Experience: 8+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience within a Fintech, Consumer Lending, Investment Banking, or fast-growing, tech-forward environment.
• Sourcing Capability & Tech Fluency: Demonstrated expertise mapping highly technical target markets with a strong interest in utilizing advanced tech stacks, automation tools, and AI sourcing platforms to systematically optimize candidate funnels.
• Adaptability & Resilience: High professional maturity with a proven track record of navigating shifting business priorities, complex organizational scales, and rapid structural pivots calmly and effectively.
• Systems Expertise: Advanced command of Greenhouse ATS, Linked In Recruiter, AI tools, and data analytics tools, paired with impeccable attention to detail.
• Market Acumen: Deep knowledge of the New York City and…