Senior Manager, Technical Recruiting

As Marqeta's Senior Manager, Technical Recruiting, you will play a crucial role in driving Marqeta's success by leading a team of recruiters focused on acquiring exceptional talent for our Product and Engineering roles. We are a dynamic and inclusive team that is constantly evolving to support Marqeta's growth with a diverse workforce. If you are a strategic leader, adaptive, and passionate about shaping recruitment initiatives and developing a high-performing team, we invite you to be a part of our journey.

We work Flexible First. This role can be performed remotely anywhere within the United States or from our Oakland office. We’d love for you to join us!

The Impact You’ll Have

• Lead and manage a team of recruiters, focusing on hiring for positions up to the Senior Director level

• Occasionally manage searches yourself, typically for Director+ roles.

• Partner with & advise C-level leaders in Product and Engineering on hiring strategies

• Influence decision-making, processes, and outcomes using data and metrics.

• Develop and implement strategic hiring plans for the team or business group.

• Drive team-wide projects/programs and contribute to refining and improving recruitment processes, tools, resources, and strategies.

• Coach and develop team members, fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment that ensures each team member feels that they belong.

• Build strong partnerships with senior leadership and other cross-functional partners.

• Oversee the creation of hiring strategies for roles and profiles, ensuring fair and consistent structured interviews.

• Lead complex offer negotiations, providing guidance on compensation and benefits.

• Develop and maintain talent pipelines, utilizing multiple channels for sourcing, conducting market research, and leading collaborative sourcing efforts.

• Ensure a healthy, representative pipeline across all roles.

Who You Are

• 10+ years of experience in full life-cycle recruiting, with a minimum of 3 years in a people-management role, preferably in-house at product-led tech companies.

• Proven experience in executing high levels of productivity and developing high-performing recruiting teams.

• Highly emotionally intelligent, with the demonstrated ability to lead and inspire a team that has a collaborative, empathetic, and high-performance culture.

• Excellent communication, adaptability, resilience, and problem-solving skills.

• Demonstrated experience driving sourcing and recruitment strategies as well as process and tool optimization.

• Familiarity with a variety of ATS and other recruiting tools; experience with Greenhouse and Ashby is a plus.

Nice-To-Haves

• Experience in the FinTech or Payments space.

• Experience in leading remote teams.

Typical Process

• Application Submission

• Hiring manager video call

• Virtual “Onsite” consisting of up to five 45 minute calls

• Finalist Interview

• Offer!

Compensation and Benefits

Marqeta is a Flex First company which allows you to choose your best working environment, whether that be from home or at a company office. To support Flex First, we calibrate pay to a competitive value according to working location. Compensation is aligned according to three tiers within the United States:

• National: A baseline tier that applies to most of the geographic territory of the United States.

• Premium: Slightly elevated from the National tier, and oriented toward a narrower set of higher cost-of-living areas, such as Los Angeles CA and Seattle WA

• Premium Plus: A tier for the most expensive working areas, like the San Francisco Bay area and New York City.

Visit this page or consult with a Recruiter to determine which tier would be applicable to you.

When determining salaries, we consider several factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior experience, and work location. The new-hire base salary range for this position is:

• National: $169,400 - $211,700

• Premium: $175,800 - $219,800

• Premium Plus: $182,200 - $227,800

We also believe in recognizing the contributions of our people. That's why we award annual bonuses to eligible employees, rewarding both individual performance and the success of the entire company.

Along with monetary compensation, Marqeta offers

• Multiple health insurance options

• Flexible time off – take what you need

• Retirement savings program with company contribution and after tax contributions

• Equity in a publicly-traded company and an Employee Stock Purchase Program

• Family-forming benefits, fertility support, and up to 20 weeks of Parental Leave

• Free therapy sessions, financial and professional coaching, and legal advice

• Monthly stipend to support our remote work model

• Annual “development dollars” to support our people growth and development

• Through Flex First, the freedom to live and work wherever you and your family thrive

About Marqeta

Marqeta is on a mission to change the way money moves. We’re one of the earliest enablers of embedded finance, a market opportunity sized up in the trillions. Our card issuing platform provides unprecedented flexibility and control for companies to issue cards, authorize transactions, and manage payment operations in real time. Marqeta is powering the most well known brands in the new economy (Block, Cash App, Affirm, Instacart, Doordash, Uber, Walmart, etc). You don’t need to be a Payments expert to join the Marqeta Team, let us help you with that. This is the opportunity of a lifetime to work with innovators around the world and unlock equitable financial access for all.

Marqeta’s Values

– Solve for the Customer: With a deep understanding of our customers' business and empathy for their needs, we deliver products and services that drive their success. Earning and keeping their trust guides everything we do.

– Do What's Right: Knowing businesses and livelihoods depend on us, we pursue solutions that disrupt responsibly and deliver high-quality results that our customers count on. We own our work from start to finish.

– Simplify and Innovate: We approach challenges with curiosity and take smart risks. Innovation comes from finding better, simpler ways to achieve extraordinary outcomes.

– Win as a Team: We succeed together by embracing diverse perspectives and pushing each other to raise the bar. We lead with humility and set aside hierarchy to work as a team.

– Make it Count: We drive forward with focus and agility. With a sense of urgency and purpose, we get the job done, and done right.

Equal Employment Opportunity, Accommodations and Privacy

Marqeta is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace that fosters belonging. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, childbirth, or related medical conditions), veteran status or uniformed service member status, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship or immigration status, physical or mental disability, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information (including testing or characteristics) or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

Marqeta endeavors to make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to submit this application, complete any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participate in the employee selection process, please submit this form with your specific accommodation request.

Personal data that is provided as part of the application and recruitment process is processed in accordance with the Applicant Privacy Notice. Additional information for California residents can be found here.