You understand that great hiring is about more than filling roles, it’s about building teams that drive meaningful impact. You are motivated by partnering with hiring managers, shaping hiring strategies, and delivering a best-in-class candidate experience.

You thrive in fast-paced environments where expectations are high, ownership is expected, and results matter.

You are proactive, accountable, and solutions-oriented. You don’t wait to be told what to do, you take the lead, bring structure to ambiguity, and follow through.

If you’re looking for a role where you can operate with autonomy, raise the bar, and make a tangible impact, this is the opportunity for you.

What you’ll do:

Lead Full-Cycle Recruiting: Own hiring processes end-to-end, from role scoping through to offer and acceptance. Build strong pipelines of qualified candidates for current and future hiring needs, using proactive sourcing strategies and market mapping.
Partner with Hiring Managers: Act as a trusted advisor to hiring managers and business leaders. Support with defining role requirements, shaping interview processes, and aligning on hiring strategy. Provide guidance to ensure effective and consistent decision-making.
Deliver a Best-in-Class Candidate Experience: Ensure every candidate interaction reflects Polly’s standards. Communicate clearly, provide timely feedback, and create a professional, transparent experience regardless of outcome.
Drive Hiring Outcomes: Focus on delivering the best hires, not just filling roles. Maintain a high bar for candidate quality and alignment. Take ownership of results and continuously look for ways to improve performance.
Manage Stakeholder Alignment: Maintain clear and structured communication across candidates, hiring managers, and People partners. Keep processes moving efficiently and proactively manage any challenges.
Leverage Data & Process: Maintain accurate data within ATS systems and use insights to improve hiring outcomes. Ensure compliance with all relevant policies, procedures, and local regulations.

What you have:

Full-Cycle Recruiting Ownership: Proven experience managing end-to-end recruiting processes, with the ability to independently drive multiple searches while maintaining quality and pace.
Technical Recruiting Expertise: Experience hiring for technical roles, with an understanding of how to assess talent and build strong pipelines in competitive markets.
Hiring Manager Partnership: Demonstrated ability to work closely with hiring managers, influence decisions, and provide guidance on hiring strategy, market conditions, and candidate evaluation.
Sourcing & Market Mapping: Strong experience proactively identifying and engaging talent using sourcing tools, including LinkedIn and Boolean search techniques, as well as building and maintaining pipelines.
Candidate Experience Excellence: A consistent track record of delivering a high-quality, professional candidate experience, with clear communication and strong stakeholder management.
Values Alignment
Mission focused: We cut through the distractions and the noise to dedicate our energy toward what accomplishes our mission and moves the needle.
United front: We operate as one team with one mission. We are collaborators, not critics; we choose alignment over division.
Strive for excellence: We bring our best to every interaction. We reject complacency, act with urgency and precision, and do what it takes to achieve success.
All-in: We take radical ownership and full responsibility for outcomes, we learn from failures, and we hold ourselves and others accountable to excellence.
Customer obsession: Customers are our only priority. We are endlessly empathetic and curious about their needs and challenges. We respond with urgency, care, and precision.
Here to WIN: We show up with solutions, not just problems. We move fast while preserving the highest standards and quality of work.

Why join Polly?

High Bar of Talent: Polly consistently performs in the top quartile of start-up companies, and we consider the people of Polly the engine helping us achieve success. Many candidates choose Polly because of the collaborative, smart, and fun people that work here. We strive to hire the best to continue to raise that bar, and <5% of those that enter the interview process are presented with an offer.
Disruptive Mission: Mortgage capital markets is historically an under-innovated space; Polly is committed to changing that. Our purpose-built platform has reimagined and reinvented the way that our lender customers operate. We are seeking passionate and driven builders who are not interested in accepting the status quo.
Individual Impact & Growth: Every day, the Polly team doesn’t just work—they contribute to our overarching mission. Individual impact is highly visible and everyone’s voice matters. You will have exposure to every level of leadership, cross-functional teams, and impactful projects, giving you a unique opportunity to build and hone your skills.
Hybrid Workplace with Innovation at the Core: Here at Polly, we believe in blending flexibility with in-person collaboration. With a hybrid model, our employees work on site three days a week at our Innovation Hub, located in Warsaw driving forward-thinking solutions and fostering teamwork

Let’s get to know each other.

Polly is transforming the mortgage industry with its modern, data-driven capital markets ecosystem. Banks, credit unions, and mortgage lenders nationwide trust Polly’s revolutionary Product and Pricing Engine (PPE), Loan Trading Exchange, and actionable data and analytics to automate and optimize the entire capital markets value chain, helping their secondary teams operate faster, smarter, and more profitably. Polly was founded in 2019 by a seasoned team of technology and mortgage experts and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

To learn more, follow Polly on LinkedIn or visit www.polly.io. Polly is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy status, disability status, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Beware of recruitment scams impersonating Polly brand or employees. Our team communicates only through official Polly channels, and we will never ask for sensitive information over text or conduct text-only interviews. If you are ever suspicious or in doubt, reach out to us directly at peopleteam@pollyex.com. We care deeply about this network and your experience.

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