Technical Recruiter

About Valon

Valon is innovating the AI-native operating system designed specifically for regulated finance sectors, beginning with mortgage servicing. As a Series C backed company by a16z, Valon challenges the status quo by building and running its own mortgage servicing business managing over $110 billion in loans. This strategic approach enables Valon to develop software that effectively navigates regulated industries, turning mortgage servicing from a zero-margin business into one with margins exceeding 60%, while enhancing the customer experience significantly. Their unified platform, ValonOS, structures and automates processes to harness AI's potential not just for task automation but for continuous operational improvements across regulated industries.

Role Overview

The Technical Recruiter position at Valon is integral to the company’s mission: fueling growth by hiring top technical talent. This role demands treating recruitment as a system to be engineered, refined, and optimized with the aid of AI to maximize efficiency. The recruiter will manage the entire hiring lifecycle for critical technical roles, emphasizing rapid and precise delivery with a strong intellectual curiosity and data-driven decision making. This role is not about simply filling positions but building a robust recruiting infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-end ownership of talent pipeline management for engineering, product, and data roles, ensuring no candidates or hiring managers are left waiting.
• Be a proactive strategic partner by providing market insights and advising on job descriptions, compensation alignment, and interview process improvements backed by data.
• Communicate Valon’s unique value proposition to attract exceptional technical professionals by explaining the company’s complex, regulated finance technology stack.
• Design and maintain a positive, precise, and trustworthy candidate experience from initial contact through onboarding.
• Leverage AI tools proactively to enhance sourcing, candidate personalization, pipeline analysis, and automate repetitive recruitment workflows.
• Develop recruitment processes as products by creating/streamlining job descriptions, interview formats, sourcing strategies, and tracking recruitment metrics for reproducibility and continuous improvement.

Candidate Profile

• Demonstrable success in recruiting technical talent for roles in engineering, product, or data within fast-growing or complex companies.
• Hands-on experience experimenting with AI in recruitment workflows, including sourcing automation and outreach personalization.
• A high degree of ownership and initiative to independently identify issues and implement scalable solutions.
• Ability to articulate complex and regulated business environments compellingly to attract top-tier candidates.
• Strong intuition for identifying exceptional technical talent across various disciplines.
• Persistence in overcoming challenges such as slow candidate movement, rejection, and ambiguous scenarios.
• Experience using data analytics to monitor recruiting performance, interpret trends, and optimize decisions.
• Excellent communication skills to foster trust with candidates and hiring managers.

Why Join Valon?

• Direct impact on the development of a pioneering AI-native operating system transforming regulated finance.
• Work in an innovative environment where AI permeates product architecture and internal processes.
• Collaborate with a compact, talented recruiting team where ideas are valued and quickly implemented.
• Contribute to scaling efforts beyond mortgage servicing into wider regulated financial sectors.

Benefits

• Competitive salary ranging from $149,000 to $175,000 annually with equity participation and 401(k) plan options.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance supporting physical and mental well-being.
• Pre-tax commuter benefits for public transport, rideshares, and parking to ease commuting.
• Extensive onboarding and continuous learning opportunities including regular performance reviews with 360-degree feedback.
• Allocated budgets for team and company social events fostering workplace camaraderie.
• Flexible paid time off policy, sick leave, and 11 company holidays.
• Fully paid 12-week baby bonding leave for all new parents.

Additional Information

All recruitment communication will only come from verified valon.com email addresses, and no personally identifiable information will be requested during the hiring process. Valon is committed to equal opportunity, diversity, and inclusion and strictly prohibits any discrimination or harassment based on protected characteristics. Hiring decisions are purely made based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.