Recruiter (6+ month contract / full benefits)

Kiavi is one of the nation’s largest private lenders to residential real estate investors (REIs). We harness the power of data & technology to offer our customers a simpler, more reliable, and faster way to access the capital they need to scale their businesses. 

Formerly known as LendingHome, we’re committed to helping REIs revitalize the approximately $25 trillion worth of aged U.S. housing stock to provide move-in ready homes and rental housing for millions of Americans across the country.

Combining our technology and industry expertise, Kiavi has grown to a team of over 400 and has won many awards over the years including Forbes Fintech 50, Finovate Awards, Best Digital Mortgage Platform, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and many more. 

• Loans Funded: $28 billion in loans funded
• Homes financed: 100,000+ projects funded for our customers across the country
• Geography: 45 states + D.C. where we lend to REIs so they can revitalize neighborhoods
• Employees: Over 450 employees with competitive benefits and perks

This position can be based remotely in any of our approved hiring regions. Our hybrid distributed workforce philosophy allows us to find the best talent in the country and build diverse teams, while allowing our colleagues to work from the location that works best for them. 

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The Role

Talent Acquisition is the essential engine that fuels the scalable growth of our world-class business. We are a lean, results-driven team, committed to delivering measurable results while staying agile and adapting to the evolving needs of the business. We serve as trusted subject matter experts, providing real-time market data and advising our business leaders. 

We are seeking a remote Contract Recruiter to join our Talent Team. This role is a high-impact, full-cycle recruiting position focused primarily on supporting our Sales, Operations, and General & Administrative (G&A) teams. You will drive the entire hiring process—from requisition opening to candidate closing—with a primary focus on managing and converting inbound applicants.

Exceptional performance in this role may lead to the opportunity to convert to a full-time, permanent position in the second half of the year, based on business needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Full-Cycle Recruiting: Own the end-to-end recruitment process across multiple non-engineering business functions, with a distinct focus on maximizing the quality and conversion of inbound applicants.

• Strategic Partnership: Act as a strategic hiring partner for leaders across our Sales, Operations, and G&A teams.

• Process Optimization: Proactively identify interviewing bottlenecks and implement efficient, scalable solutions to improve the candidate experience and speed-to-hire.

• Influence & Execution: Navigate ambiguity and influence stakeholders to deliver high-quality talent and achieve aggressive hiring targets.

Qualifications

• Experience: 2+ years of in-house, full-cycle recruiting experience.

• Remote Hiring: Proven success hiring remote roles across various US markets.

• Communication: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a demonstrated ability to take initiative and build strong, productive relationships.

• Tech Stack: Prior experience using Greenhouse ATS is a significant plus.

• Industry Focus (A Plus): Experience recruiting within financial institutions, banks, or lending/FinTech organizations is a strong advantage.

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Kiavi takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. The expected annualized base pay range for this full-time role to be performed remotely is $70,000 to $96,000 + benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries. Within the range, the successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. Your recruiter can share more about the specific base pay range for your preferred location during the hiring process. Please note that the pay range listed above reflects the base salary only, and does not include the target value of benefits.

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Benefits and Perks 

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance: Kiavi offers free employee-only coverage for medical, dental, and vision plans. Dependents receive a heavily discounted premium, competitively placed in the 90th percentile for cost.
• Health Savings Account (HSA): For those enrolled in a High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP), Kiavi provides an annual employer contribution to HSAs: $1,000 for individual coverage and $2,000 for dependents.
• Disability and Life Insurance: Immediate access to short-term and long-term disability insurance, as well as group life and AD&D insurance, with coverage at 1x annual salary.
• Remote Work Policy: Kiavi supports working remotely for day to day activities for most roles and occasionally may ask employees to gather in person for key meetings, training, team building etc. For remote workers, Kiavi offers a one-time office setup reimbursement of up to $500 and a monthly $85 stipend for internet and phone expenses. For in-office workers, Kiavi offers employer contributions to commuter benefits account, either for parking or public transportation.
• Flexible Time Off: Employees are empowered to manage their own time off, with no strict limits, as long as it's approved by their manager.
• 401(k) & Company Match: A 401(k) plan managed by Fidelity, with Kiavi matching 100% of contributions up to 3% of compensation or $8,000 (whichever is less). All employer contributions are immediately vested.

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Protect yourself from recruitment scams:

• If you are offered an interview or a role with Kiavi, this will be communicated with you through email, via an official email address ending in @kiavi.com or @lendinghome.com. 
• You will never be asked for payments of any kind during the process.
• We also never communicate with candidates via Whatsapp at any point during the recruitment process. 
• We won’t ask for personal information or data via text message. If you have any concerns regarding how genuine a text message is, please contact your recruiter.
• You can find our official Kiavi careers page here. We advise you to check that the page details and website addresses match if you have any concerns.

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Kiavi is an Equal Opportunity Employer
San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance Police Code, Article 49

We use E-Verify to confirm the identity and employment eligibility of all new hires.