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# Talent Acquisition Specialist at Rewards Network

- **Company:** Rewards Network
- **Location:** Chicago, IL
- **Compensation:** $91k–$108k
- **Posted:** 2026-09-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-16
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/rewardsnetwork/jobs/5236862007

## Job description

## About Rewards Network

Celebrating 41 years, Rewards Network has helped restaurants increase their revenue, traffic, and customer engagement through our innovative financial, marketing services, and premier dining rewards programs. We connect diners to fantastic restaurant experiences by offering unique card-linked offers.  Our offers leverage advanced technology and powerful data analytics, providing value to our restaurants, diners, and strategic partners' loyalty programs.

Our Culture

At Rewards Network, you will find a passionate and diverse group of professionals that enjoy working collaboratively, solving problems, and taking ownership of not only their own careers and success, but the success and continued growth of the organization. We take pride in partnering with the world's most powerful loyalty programs to bring full price paying customers and better ways to access working capital options to local restaurants. We offer a challenging and rewarding environment where you can maximize your potential.

Job Overview

Rewards Network has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Talent Acquisition Specialist to join our team!

The Talent Acquisition Specialist will lead full-cycle recruiting across a diverse set of corporate functions, partnering closely with business leaders to identify, attract, and hire top talent.

This position requires the ability to recruit across all corporate departments, including bringing strong experience and credibility in technical recruiting. The Talent Acquisition Specialist will play a key role in building talent pipelines, delivering market insights, and ensuring a seamless, high-quality hiring experience.

## Responsibilities

- Lead full-cycle recruiting across corporate functions, including Finance, IT, Product, Marketing, Data Science, Sales, Customer Success, and Client Relations
- Partner with hiring managers and business leaders to understand hiring needs, define role requirements, and develop effective recruiting strategies
- Build and execute proactive sourcing strategies using tools such as LinkedIn and other platforms to attract high-quality, diverse talent
- Manage the end-to-end candidate experience, ensuring timely communication, strong engagement, and a positive brand impression
- Facilitate interview processes, drive alignment among stakeholders, and guide hiring decisions
- Leverage data and reporting to monitor pipeline health, improve recruiting effectiveness, and inform business decisions
- Provide market insights and talent intelligence to influence hiring strategies and workforce planning
- Represent Rewards Network at recruiting events, networking events, and industry engagements to build brand awareness and talent pipelines
- Contribute to employer branding initiatives to strengthen Rewards Network’s position as an employer of choice
- Partner cross-functionally with HR and business leaders on broader talent initiatives

This is a hybrid position that requires in-office presence 3 days a week in Chicago (Tuesday-Thursday).

Requirements:

- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent related experience
- 5+ years of corporate, in-house recruiting experience
- Proven ability to recruit across multiple corporate functions, including demonstrated success hiring for technical positions
- Strong communication (written and oral), organization and collaboration skills
- Proven ability to influence and partner with stakeholders at all levels, including senior executives, to drive hiring outcomes
- Strong sourcing skills and experience building proactive talent pipelines in competitive markets, including proficiency with LinkedIn Recruiter
- Experience with applicant tracking systems (e.g., Greenhouse preferred) and related recruiting technologies
- Strong track record of delivering against goals in fast-paced, high-volume environments with a high bar for execution
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and managing multiple requisitions and competing priorities under pressure
- Data-driven mindset with the ability to leverage metrics to influence outcomes
- Experience with visas and other employment-related immigration matters preferred
- Experience managing candidate onboarding process preferred

What you’ll love about us:

This is a full-time, exempt position, and the base compensation for this opening in Chicago is expected to be $85,000-100,000 annualized, depending on level, candidate experience, skills, and other factors. This position will be eligible for an annual bonus program with a target of 7.5% base annualized salary, for a total compensation of $91,375-107,500.

Comprehensive benefits package, which includes:

- Competitive paid time off and company holidays
- 401(k) plan with a company match
- Two medical plan options- Standard PPO or High Deductible Health Plan (HSA with company match for HDHP participants)
- Partnership with Rx n Go, offering certain prescriptions for free
- Dental plan options and a vision plan
- Flexible Spending Accounts and a pre-tax commuter benefit program
- Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity Insurance Plans
- Short Term and Long Term disability
- Company-paid life insurance and AD&D insurance, supplemental employee, spouse, and child life insurance
- Employee Life Assistance Program
- Generous dining reimbursement when you dine with our restaurant clients
- Hybrid working space in our state of the art office downtown located by the Metra and Ogilvie train stations

Rewards Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). We encourage and strongly support workplace diversity.

Expected Pay Range $91,375—$107,500 USD

## About Rewards Network

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Rewards Network partners with local restaurants to drive full-price paying guests through a card-linked dining rewards program funded by the world’s largest loyalty programs.
- **Entity Type**: Private (backed by TowerBrook Capital Partners)
- **Headquarters**: Chicago, Illinois, USA
- **Founded**: 1984 (over 40 years in operation)
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Dining rewards, marketing services, financial services for restaurants
- **Target customers**: B2B (local and independent restaurants) and B2B2C (via loyalty program partners such as airlines, hotels, and retail brands)
- **Mission**: “When local restaurants thrive, communities thrive.”

## Products & Services
- **Dining Rewards Program**: A card-linked offer platform where diners earn rewards (e.g., airline miles, hotel points) for full-price dining at partner restaurants. Restaurants pay only when a verified member visits — no upfront costs, no discounts required.
- **Marketing Services**: National and local restaurant marketing via loyalty partner channels (e.g., American Airlines, Hilton, Caesars Rewards) to drive new, full-price customers.
- **Working Capital Solutions**: Rewards Network pre-purchases food and beverage on behalf of diners, providing restaurants with fast, non-loan capital (over $3.4 billion funded to date).
- **Data & Analytics Portal**: Live sales reports, guest survey analytics, and verified review management tools for restaurant partners.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: $3.4 billion in total cash funded to restaurants; network of 20,000+ restaurant partners; 25 million+ dining members
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: TowerBrook Capital Partners (private equity backer). Strategic partners include American Airlines, United Airlines, Hilton Hotels, Caesars Entertainment, and other major loyalty programs.
- **Growth Signals**: Over 400 employees; expanding hybrid workforce with active hiring across Sales, Engineering, Product, and Data Science; investing in AI and advanced data analytics.

## Competitive Advantages
- **40+ Year Track Record**: Deeply entrenched in the restaurant financing and marketing ecosystem.
- **Unique Business Model**: Restaurants pay only for performance (actual customer visits), not for clicks or impressions — aligning incentives with restaurant success.
- **Exclusive Loyalty Network**: Access to 25 million+ verified, high-spend diners who are incentivized by top-tier loyalty currencies (miles, points) — not discounts.
- **Capital Without Debt**: Pre-purchase model provides restaurants with working capital without traditional loan terms.

## Strategic Focus
- **Technology & Data Analytics**: Renewed focus on advanced technology and more sophisticated data analytics under new leadership.
- **AI Investment**: Actively hiring an AI Operations Specialist, signaling a push into AI-driven marketing and operations.
- **National Sales Expansion**: Hiring Sales Account Executives in over 25 U.S. markets (from Seattle to Miami), indicating aggressive geographic growth.
- **Product Development**: Hiring Product Managers for B2C Offers and Senior Product Marketing Managers, suggesting new consumer-facing features.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Casual, collaborative environment with a “service mentality.” Emphasizes work/life balance, teamwork, and community involvement (e.g., volunteer events at Greater Chicago Food Depository).
- **Hybrid/Remote Policy**: Most corporate roles are listed as “Hybrid” (Chicago HQ). Field sales roles are remote in assigned territories.
- **Benefits**: Blue Cross Blue Shield medical, dental, vision; HSA with employer match; 401(k) with 50% match up to 8% of salary; generous PTO; 33% dining reimbursement at partner restaurants; commuter benefits; free on-site fitness center in Chicago.
- **Engineering Culture**: Agile development environment; teams include Scala, Python, and data engineering roles. Emphasis on iterative learning and fast execution.
- **Impact**: Directly helps local restaurant owners grow their businesses — a mission-driven role for those who care about small business success.
- **Fun Perks**: Ping pong tournaments, holiday parties, company lunches, volunteering events.

## Sources
1. [rewardsnetwork.com](https://www.rewardsnetwork.com/about-us/)
2. [rewardsnetwork.com](https://www.rewardsnetwork.com/)
3. [rewardsnetwork.com](https://www.rewardsnetwork.com/about-us/careers/)
4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/rewardsnetwork)
5. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rewards-network)

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