Talent Partner

About Us

Key Responsibilities

• Recruitment Delivery & Sourcing
• Manage end-to-end recruitment for assigned roles, ensuring quality, pace, and candidate experience.
• Proactively source and engage top talent across the Bay Area, wider West Coast, and global markets using a mix of direct sourcing, networking, and creative outreach.
• Screen, assess, and present candidates with clarity, ensuring alignment on both skills and culture.
• Maintain accurate candidate data, pipelines, and reporting in our ATS (Ashby).
• Partner with hiring managers to ensure smooth process flow, timely feedback, and aligned decision-making.
• Collaboration & Stakeholder Partnership
• Build trusted relationships with hiring managers, understanding their teams, goals, and priorities.
• Partner with the Senior Talent Partner to forecast hiring needs and contribute to workforce planning discussions.
• Collaborate with the People Ops Lead to ensure seamless onboarding, contracts, and compliance.
• Share market intelligence, competitor insights, and candidate feedback to inform hiring strategies, including West Coast compensation and talent trends.
• Employer Brand & Candidate Experience
• Champion Sokin’s culture and values through every touchpoint of the recruitment process.
• Deliver a consistent, transparent, and inclusive candidate experience from application to onboarding.
• Contribute to employer brand and talent attraction initiatives in collaboration with the Brand and Communications teams.
• Represent Sokin externally, through digital engagement, events, or partnerships that build our presence in the fintech and payments space, including the Bay Area fintech community.
• Data, Insights & Continuous Improvement
• Track and analyze recruitment metrics to identify bottlenecks, trends, and areas for improvement.
• Support the TA Leads in developing dashboards and data insights for leadership reporting.
• Share recommendations to enhance recruitment processes, tools, and candidate engagement.
• Special Projects & Growth Initiatives
• Lead or contribute to projects that elevate our Talent function, e.g. diversity and inclusion initiatives, market mapping, or global recruitment campaigns.
• Collaborate on process improvement, new sourcing tools, or candidate experience enhancements.
• Partner with the Senior Talent Partner on content creation, social media strategy, and storytelling for our employer brand.
• Support wider People Team projects, such as onboarding improvements, workforce data accuracy, or engagement initiatives.

Requirements

• 3–4 years of end-to-end recruitment experience, ideally within fintech, payments, or technology-driven environments, in-house or agency.
• Proven experience delivering end-to-end recruitment, with a strong focus on Sales and Commercial hiring in the US (ideally the West Coast), and the flexibility to support roles across Finance, Operations, Compliance and Product & Technology.
• Strong knowledge of the Bay Area and West Coast talent market.
• Excellent sourcing skills across LinkedIn, job boards, social channels, and networks.
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills with the ability to manage multiple roles at pace.
• Proven stakeholder management, confident, professional, and collaborative, with the ability to work effectively with colleagues across time zones.
• Experience using ATS tools (Ashby preferred) and maintaining accurate data pipelines.
• Curious and creative, someone who enjoys problem-solving and improving how we do things.
• Passionate about people, culture, and delivering a best-in-class recruitment experience.
• Please note, candidates must be authorized to work in the United States.
• Sokin is an equal opportunity employer and committed to maintaining an inclusive work environment. As a growing global startup with bases across multiple countries, we were established on and continue to promote an agile, flexible working culture. Please reach out to discuss any accommodations you may require during the recruitment process.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using ATS tools (Ashby preferred) and maintaining accurate data pipelines.