Founding Recruiter / Head of Talent

About Abode Money

Abode Money is the first-ever AI financial home manager, using AI to save homeowners on property taxes, insurance, mortgage and more. Homeowners spend $2T+ per year on their home. Not only is it difficult to buy a home today, but it’s become just as challenging to continue owning your home. We’re going to be the first to create a relationship with 80M+ homeowners in the US by saving them money year after year.

We’ve raised $23M from Permanent Capital, Drive Capital, Sequoia, Core VC and The 81 Collection.

The Role

We’re looking for a highly autonomous recruiter to help us build a world-class team at Abode Money. This role will work closely with the CEO and COO and will own recruiting across functions, with an initial focus on operations, product, engineering, growth, and customer-facing roles.

This role is built for someone who is scrappy, deeply organized, excellent with people, and excited to build the recruiting engine from the ground up. You should be comfortable sourcing candidates, running processes end-to-end, improving hiring systems, and holding a high bar for talent.

You will not just “fill roles.” You will help shape the company.

What You’ll Do

• Own Recruiting End-to-End: Manage the full recruiting process from sourcing to offer, including role definition, pipeline management, candidate outreach, screens, interview coordination, feedback collection, references, and closing.

• Build High-Quality Candidate Pipelines: Source exceptional candidates across startup operators, engineers, product builders, growth talent, customer operations leaders, and other high-priority roles.

• Partner Closely with Leadership: Work directly with the CEO, COO, and hiring managers to define hiring needs, calibrate profiles, improve interview loops, and move quickly on top candidates.

• Create a Best-in-Class Candidate Experience: Ensure every candidate has a thoughtful, fast, and professional experience that reflects Abode’s culture and ambition.

• Develop Recruiting Systems: Build repeatable processes for sourcing, tracking, interviewing, follow-ups, referrals, and offer management. Help us scale recruiting without adding unnecessary complexity.

• Use Data to Improve Hiring: Track pipeline metrics, conversion rates, sourcing effectiveness, time-to-fill, candidate quality, and offer acceptance rates. Use insights to continuously improve the process.

• Strengthen Our Talent Brand: Help communicate why Abode Money is an exceptional place to build, including through job posts, candidate messaging, referral campaigns, and recruiting collateral.
  
  

Who You Are

• You are a natural owner who thrives in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.

• You are highly organized and can manage multiple searches, candidates, and stakeholders without dropping balls.

• You are excellent with people and know how to build trust quickly with candidates and hiring managers.

• You are persuasive but authentic. You can sell the vision without overselling the role.

• You have high judgment and a strong bar for talent.

• You are biased toward action and comfortable figuring things out without a playbook.

• You are low-ego, high-accountability, and willing to do whatever it takes to help the company hire exceptional people.
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• You’re in Austin or willing to relocate. We’re in-person 4 days a week.

• You have 2+ years of experience in recruiting, talent, executive search, agency recruiting, startups, consulting, or another high-ownership talent-related role.

• You are comfortable using tools like LinkedIn Recruiter, Ashby, Clay, ChatGPT, or similar systems.

• Experience building recruiting processes from scratch and exeperience recruiting for early-stage startups.

• Experience hiring operators, engineers, product managers, growth marketers, or customer operations roles.

• Strong personal network across startups, consulting, banking, tech, or high-performing operator communities.
  
  

Our Core Values

The biggest thing we pride ourselves on is autonomy. You can’t move fast through committee decision-making, so we hire people who want to own workstreams outright.

Take ownership. This is yours. We build everything through single-threaded autonomy. One person owns the outcome, makes the calls, and sees it through. We believe in “asking for forgiveness, not permission” so you can make unencumbered decisions.

Move fast. Decide. Ship. Learn. Repeat. Speed is our edge. Perfection is the enemy of momentum. We will forever move faster than our competition.

Be resourceful. Find ways to do more with less. Constraints don’t slow us down. They make us inventive. There’s always a way through, and the people who own their work find it. “That’s not my job” isn’t a sentence anyone here finishes.

Think big and challenge convention. Dare to do things differently. You don’t change the world with incrementally better solutions. The systems we’re fixing are broken because everyone accepted them. We question the default, build the better answer, and refuse to blend in.

Measure everything. Data is the tiebreaker. We turn instincts into evidence, hunches into experiments, and opinions into numbers. If we can measure it, we can beat it.