Recruiter, People Operations

• Title:
  
  Recruiter, People Operations
• Team:
  People
• Reports to:
  
  General Manager
• Location:
  
  Remote, United States or Latin America
• Employment type:
  
  Full-time

Caliza is commercial banking infrastructure for companies that operate across borders. Most global businesses still piece together several banks, FX providers and spreadsheets to move money. Caliza replaces that with one platform and API: hold USD accounts, collect and pay in 33+ currencies, and convert between fiat and stable coins, over local rails, SWIFT or stable coins, in minutes instead of days. On top of that, we’re building the treasury layer: programmable accounts, approval policies, automated reconciliation and working capital, run by a customer’s finance team or their AI agents.

Our customers are importers, exporters, FX brokers, payment companies and fintechs across the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. We’re licensed and regulated across our core markets, and our team has built financial infrastructure at Visa, Nubank, EBANX, Flutterwave, Upstart, Intuit and Silicon Valley Bank.

Initialized Capital, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Abstract Ventures, New Form Capital, QED Investors, Valor Capital and Quona Capital, along with the founders of Flutterwave, Chipper Cash, Rappi, Pomelo, Dock, Remesa Online and Anchorage.

You will run Caliza’s hiring from first outreach to first day. We are hiring across engineering, compliance, sales and customer success in the US, Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia, and you will build the process that brings those people in and sets them up to succeed. You will partner with every leader on the team and lay the foundation for people operations as we grow.

• Own full-cycle recruiting across every team: sourcing, screening, interview coordination, references and closing.
• Run Lever: job postings, pipelines, scorecards, reporting and hiring manager workflows.
• Partner with hiring managers to define each role, build structured interview loops and hold a consistent hiring bar.
• Source directly for hard-to-fill roles, including regulated compliance and licensing roles and regional sales roles in new markets.
• Manage offers within approved compensation bands, working with Finance on approvals.
• Coordinate onboarding and offboarding: documentation, equipment, system access and first-week plans.
• Work with Risk and Compliance on employment agreements, contractor classification, background checks and hiring across jurisdictions, including through employer‑of‑record providers.
• Build the basics of people operations as we scale: HR systems, policies, onboarding playbooks and employee records.
• Report weekly to the leadership team on pipeline health and progress against the hiring plan.

• 4+ years of in‑house recruiting at a high‑growth startup. Fintech, payments or other regulated industries are a plus.
• A track record of hiring across several countries, including Latin America.
• Experience closing senior and technical candidates.
• Hands‑on experience with an applicant tracking system, Lever preferred.
• The organization to run 10+ open roles at once while keeping every candidate informed.
• Professional working fluency in English. Spanish or Portuguese is a strong plus.
• Ability to work hours that overlap with US Eastern and Brazil time zones.

• Experience setting up people operations at an early‑stage company.
• Familiarity with employer‑of‑record providers such as Deel, Remote or Oyster.
• Experience recruiting in Africa or Asia.
• Experience using AI tools for sourcing, screening or interview scheduling.

Benefits vary by country of employment and may include health coverage, paid time off and holidays, a home office or equipment…