--- title: 'Lead Recruiting Partner at Pagaya' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/lead-recruiting-partner-pagaya-new-york-m5mwtq07ry2y' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-05' --- # Lead Recruiting Partner at Pagaya - **Company:** Pagaya - **Location:** New York, NY - **Compensation:** $170k–$210k - **Posted:** 2026-07-14 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/pagaya/jobs/7804515003 ## Job description ## About Pagaya Shape the Future of Finance Pagaya is building a leading artificial intelligence network to help our partners grow their businesses and better serve their customers. Pagaya is a global technology company making life-changing financial products and services available to more people nationwide, as it reshapes the financial services ecosystem. By using machine learning, a vast data network and a sophisticated AI-driven approach, Pagaya provides comprehensive consumer credit and residential real estate solutions for its partners, their customers, and investors. Its proprietary API and capital solutions integrate into its network of partners to deliver seamless user experiences and greater access to the mainstream economy. Pagaya has offices in New York and Tel Aviv. For more information, visit [pagaya.com](https://pagaya.com/). Let's create better outcomes together! ## 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. ## Responsibilities - 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. ## Qualifications - 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, LinkedIn Recruiter, AI tools, and data analytics tools, paired with impeccable attention to detail. - Market Acumen: Deep knowledge of the New York City and broader U.S. talent markets, including shifting compensation trends, equity structures, and competitive dynamics. - Execution & Value Alignment: A self-directed professional who pairs high-level strategic vision with rigorous, autonomous execution. Strong commitment to learning, inclusion, and continuous improvement—fully aligned with Pagaya’s core values. The pay ranges for New York-based hires are commensurate with candidate experience. Pay ranges for candidates working in locations other than New York may differ based on the cost of labor in that location. ## Compensation Range for New York Based Hires $170,000—$210,000 USD ## Our Team Pagaya was founded in 2016 by seasoned research, finance, and technology entrepreneurs with our head quarters located in NYC and Tel Aviv. We move fast and smart, identifying new opportunities and building end-to-end solutions from AI models and unique data sources. Every Pagaya team member is solving new and exciting challenges every day in a culture based on partnership, collaboration, and community. Join a team of builders who are working every day to enable better outcomes for our partners and their customers. ## Our Values - Continuously Learn- We challenge ourselves for the sake of getting better as individuals, as teams, and as an organization to deliver for our partners. - Debate and Commit- We respectfully and openly debate to strengthen our ideas and build shared conviction - once we decide, we go all in, together. - Dream Big and Act- We boldly tackle complex problems, pressure-test solutions in real-time, and adapt with speed and energy. - Advance Inclusion- We create a world where everyone can win, designing systems that better represent people and generate sustainable value for our employees, partners and investors. - Be Accountable Together- We proudly own our actions and our results, taking initiative to ensure our work gets over the finish line as a team. More than just a job We believe health, happiness, and productivity go hand-in-hand. That's why we're continually looking to enhance the ways we support you with benefits programs and perks that allow every Pagayan to do the best work of their life. ## About Pagaya ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Pagaya is an AI-powered lending network that connects financial institutions with institutional investors to enable more inclusive and efficient consumer credit decisions. - **Entity Type**: Public (NASDAQ: PGY) - **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States - **Founded**: 2016 - **Founders**: Gal Krubiner, Avital Pardo, Yahav Yulzari ## Core Business - Primary industry: Financial technology (fintech) / Consumer lending - Target customers: B2B – banks, credit unions, fintech lenders, and other financial service providers; also institutional investors (pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, asset managers) - Mission: "Deliver more financial opportunity to more people, more often" ## Products & Services - **Decline Monetization (Flagship)**: Automatically sends rejected loan applications to Pagaya’s network for a second look, enabling partners to approve customers they would otherwise decline without incremental risk. (SaaS/API) - **Dual Look**: Concurrent evaluation of applications with partners in real time to increase capture rates. (API) - **FastPass**: Removes verification friction for qualified borrowers to accelerate transactions. (API) - **First Look**: Routes designated application segments to Pagaya’s network before the partner reviews them. (API) - **Affiliate Optimizer Engine**: Enables partners to price and underwrite traffic from third-party affiliate channels via AI. (API) - **Direct Marketing Engine**: Uses Pagaya’s data network to help partners acquire new customers through email and direct mail. (API) - **Pagaya Intelligence**: Proprietary AI decision engine that processes applications in real time with zero latency. (Technology platform) Asset classes covered: Personal loans, auto loans, point-of-sale (POS) financing, and single-family rental (SFR) real estate. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not directly available from provided sources; publicly traded on NASDAQ under ticker PGY (market cap fluctuates with market conditions). - **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $1.3 billion (2024, per LinkedIn estimate) / Total loan applications evaluated: **$3.6 trillion** (as of 2025 10-K) / Cumulative new credit generated: **$43 billion** (per website). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Institutional investors including pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and asset management firms; 30+ lending partners (banks and fintechs). - **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew to 518 employees as of December 2025 (up from ~400+ earlier); expanded into auto loans, POS, and SFR asset classes; processing scale creates a powerful data flywheel for AI improvement. ## Competitive Advantages - **AI-powered underwriting** trained on trillions of dollars in loan applications, providing superior accuracy and real-time adaptability. - **Decline monetization model** lets partners retain customers they would otherwise reject, with zero balance-sheet risk. - **Seamless API integration** with minimal latency, requiring limited upfront investment. - **Regulatory compliance** fully aligned with U.S. fair lending, data security, and risk management standards. - **Multi-product ecosystem** covering the full lending lifecycle (acquisition, application, point-of-sale) across multiple asset classes. ## Strategic Focus - Expand product suite beyond decline monetization into Dual Look, FastPass, Direct Marketing, and Affiliate Optimization. - Grow into new asset classes (auto, POS, SFR) and deepen partnerships with leading financial institutions. - Continue investing in AI and data science to maintain a competitive edge in credit evaluation. - Effective capital and risk management to support institutional investor relationships and fee-generating side of the business. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Team-oriented, entrepreneurial, and described as "curious builders" who take on inefficient systems. Core values emphasize innovation, collaboration, and impact. - **Work Model**: Hybrid/remote options – some roles listed as "US Remote" (e.g., Senior DevOps Engineer). Offices in New York (HQ) and Tel Aviv, Israel, with operations in Poland, Canada, and Portugal. - **Growth & Impact**: Rapidly growing public company with a mission to expand credit access. Employees work on cutting-edge AI, data science, and product development at scale. - **Engineering Culture**: Strong emphasis on data science, machine learning, and platform engineering. Open roles include Data Scientists, DevOps Engineers, Software Engineers, and Product Managers. - **Perks**: Competitive compensation and benefits; entrepreneurial environment with opportunities for ownership. ## Sources 1. [Pagaya Website](https://pagaya.com) 2. [Pagaya About](https://pagaya.com/about-us) 3. [Pagaya Careers](https://pagaya.com/careers) 4. [Pagaya LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pagaya) 5. 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