Paraform | The #1 Agentic Hiring Platform & Recruiter Marketplace. Backed by Felicis.
About the role
We have 15 engineers and more than $100M in ARR, and we're scaling the engineering team roughly 3x over the next year. The Marketplace team sits at the center of that: it owns how supply (recruiters) meets demand (companies and their open roles), and every improvement it ships moves revenue directly.
What they're looking for
- 2+ years managing engineers (Manager) or 5+ years including managing multiple teams or managers (Director), on top of a strong IC background
- You've worked on a marketplace, payments, pricing, or another domain where the system's incentives matter as much as its code
- Data-fluent: you can pull your own SQL, sanity-check an experiment readout, and push back on a bad metric
- AI fluency is a floor here, not a differentiator. You use AI tools in your own work and you know how to raise a team's leverage with them
- You write things down. Operating norms, decision docs, postmortems. Clarity in writing is how small teams stay fast as they grow
- Comfortable being hands-on in a fast-moving codebase
More about this role
We have 15 engineers and more than $100M in ARR, and we're scaling the engineering team roughly 3x over the next year. The Marketplace team sits at the center of that: it owns how supply (recruiters) meets demand (companies and their open roles), and every improvement it ships moves revenue directly.
We're hiring an engineering leader to own the Marketplace team. You'll manage a pod of strong engineers, partner closely with the marketplace product lead and data science, and be accountable for outcomes, not output: role coverage, recruiter activation and retention, hiring velocity for our customers. Title (Manager or Director) depends on your experience; the ownership doesn't.
This is a player-coach role. At our size, leaders still read PRs, debug incidents, and occasionally ship. You'll spend most of your time on people, prioritization, and system design, but you should be dangerous in the codebase.
The team. Hire, coach, and level a pod of senior-leaning engineers. We run small autonomous teams with high judgment expectations, and we promote on judgment, not lines of code.
Marketplace health. Liquidity is the core problem: making sure every open role gets real recruiter...
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