Senior Talent Partner

Shakepay is a Canadian financial services company that lets Canadians buy, sell, send, and hold bitcoin and ethereum. It also offers bitcoin rewards, direct deposit, cashback, and wallet transfers.

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About Shakepay

Shakepay provides a Canadian crypto platform for buying and selling bitcoin and ethereum, sending money, and moving bitcoin to private wallets or cash to banks. Its offerings include recurring bitcoin buys, bitcoin rewards for shaking and shopping, direct deposit, referrals, business services, and private-client services. The company states that it is a CIRO member, registered as an Investment Dealer across Canadian provinces and territories, and licensed by FINTRAC as a Money Service Business.

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About the Role

You will own high-impact, full-cycle searches across technical and business functions. You will partner with hiring managers and senior leaders to define roles, develop recruiting strategies, source passive candidates, run structured interviews, maintain accurate applicant-tracking data, communicate pipeline performance, and improve hiring processes and tools.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including meaningful in-house experience in a high-growth startup environment.
  • Experience building passive candidate pipelines and closing hard-to-fill roles across multiple functions.
  • Experience advising hiring managers and senior leaders on role outcomes, leveling, market realities, and trade-offs.
  • Structured-assessment skills and technical fluency to translate engineering, product, data, or security requirements into sourcing and screening plans.
  • Experience managing concurrent searches, configuring applicant tracking systems, and managing recruiting data.
  • Communication, prioritization, and judgment skills.
  • Interest in Bitcoin and non-sovereign money.
  • English fluency.

Responsibilities

  • Own full-cycle recruiting for engineering, product, design, GTM, and other business roles.
  • Partner with hiring managers and senior leaders to define roles, scope, interview processes, and recruiting strategy.
  • Build proactive candidate pipelines through direct sourcing, research, referrals, communities, and employer-brand content.
  • Provide market mapping, compensation context, timelines, and expectation calibration.
  • Run structured hiring processes, including job descriptions, interview plans, candidate communication, scheduling, scorecards, and debriefs.
  • Maintain accurate Greenhouse ATS data and coach interviewers.
  • Track and communicate pipeline health, conversion, candidate experience, responsiveness, decision speed, and close risks.
  • Provide progress updates, surface bottlenecks, and improve recruiting playbooks, tools, automation, and AI practices with human oversight.

Benefits

  • Stock options for every employee.
  • Yearly salary assessments.
  • Health and dental coverage, including health and wellness spending accounts.
  • Remote work anywhere in Canada, with optional office access in Montreal and Toronto.
  • 20 vacation days per year and a $1,000 bonus for using all vacation.
  • Parental leave top-up to 100% of salary for 18 weeks.
  • Quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsites.