Lead Recruiter

Location: Hybrid; New York, NY (HQ), San Francisco, CA, or remote within the US. Relocation expense coverage to NYC or SF is available if needed.

Target base salary: $180,000–$250,000 for SF/NY; final compensation depends on location and hiring level. Equity is offered.

Company

Ramp builds smart financial infrastructure that automates payment authorization, risk flagging, spend categorization, and book closing for more than 70,000 companies.

What you will do

• Own full-cycle recruiting for Director-level and above roles across G&A and business functions, from intake and market mapping through offer and close.
• Build functional fluency and translate ambiguous business needs into clear hiring strategies and role definitions.
• Develop proactive pipelines through market research, targeted sourcing, referrals, and engagement with passive candidates, including confidential searches.
• Design assessment approaches that evaluate leadership effectiveness, functional expertise, and ability to operate at Ramp’s pace and scale.
• Advise executives and senior stakeholders, challenge assumptions, and maintain a high bar for talent, execution, and candidate experience.
• Manage sensitive candidate information and stakeholder communication with sound judgment.

Requirements

• 6+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience.
• Independent experience leading complex senior-level searches from initial scoping through accepted offer.
• Ability to advise senior leaders, challenge requirements, and influence hiring decisions through clear communication, market insight, and data.
• Ability to build fluency in unfamiliar functions, context-switch across different searches, and maintain strong judgment as priorities and scope change.
• High ownership and comfort with ambiguity, including turning open-ended business needs into actionable searches, building pipelines from scratch, and driving progress independently.
• Strong closing skills, including experience with competing offers, senior candidates, and sensitive searches.

Nice to have

• Experience in executive search or dedicated leadership recruiting, particularly across G&A or business functions.
• Experience partnering directly with CEOs or other C-suite leaders on critical hires.
• Experience improving interview architecture, scorecards, market maps, or recruiting processes where structure was limited or still being built.
• Experience developing AI-enabled recruiting workflows adopted beyond individual searches.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible PTO, home-office equipment ordering, health and wellness stipend, intra-office travel budget, and weekly coffee stipend.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, including 100% employee coverage in the US plan and partial dependent coverage.
• 401(k) with employer match, retirement plans in applicable regions, and life, disability, and employee assistance coverage.
• Parental leave of up to 16 weeks for birthing and bonding or 8 weeks for bonding only at 100% pay, with additional regional provisions.
• Fertility benefits, pet insurance, One Medical membership, virtual care, and in-office meals, snacks, and drinks.
• Relocation expense coverage to New York City or San Francisco if needed.