Founding Talent Partner
About the job
- Has 3–6+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally with 1–2 years at a high-growth startup.
- Has personally closed hires across go-to-market and technical roles.
- Has experience as an AI-native recruiter, leveraging new technologies to find candidates.
- Sources proactively through outbound channels rather than relying only on inbound applications.
- Can sell a mission-driven startup to candidates weighing offers from larger companies.
- Can manage 8–12 open roles at a time.
- Uses sound judgment to assess people and identify candidate quality beyond credentials.
- Is comfortable building processes from scratch rather than inheriting an established playbook.
- Is based in the Bay Area or willing to relocate to Palo Alto, California.
- Own the full recruiting life cycle, including sourcing, screening, interview coordination, offer management, and candidate closing across go-to-market, engineering, product, and operations roles.
- Partner with founders and hiring managers to define role requirements, build scorecards, and calibrate on candidate quality.
- Build recruiting infrastructure from scratch, including applicant tracking, interview processes, structured and automated feedback loops, and employer branding.
- Source proactively through LinkedIn, networks, events, and creative channels.
- Track and report recruiting metrics, including pipeline health, time-to-fill, and conversion rates, to continuously improve the process.
- Represent the company as a first point of contact for candidates.
- Work in person at the downtown Palo Alto location 4–5 days per week.
- Recruited for applied AI and/or fintech companies in the Bay Area and/or Toronto.
- Built recruiting technology and processes from the ground up.
- Hired for accounting, bookkeeping, or financial services roles.
- Worked at a company during its growth from 20 to 100 employees.
- Has a network in the Bay Area and/or Toronto startup ecosystem.
- Partnered with or managed external recruiting agencies.
About the company
Kick.co is a fintech platform that helps small business owners, freelancers, and creators manage money with automated bookkeeping, tax-deduction optimization, and cash-back opportunities, using Blue Ridge Bank N.A. as its banking partner. Transactions are connected via users’ debit or credit cards, and the platform automatically categorizes income and expenses to save time and reduce audit risk, with AI guidance and human-assisted support. It stands out by blending automation with human help and community-sourced tax tips, focusing on tax savings and cash back while outsourcing banking. Its goal is to simplify financial management for its users, helping them save time and money through better bookkeeping and ongoing access to tax and cash-back opportunities.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Seed
Total Funding
$12M
Headquarters
Palo Alto, California
Founded
2021
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Kick raised $20 million by November 3, 2025, backing product expansion.
- Agent Builder Club launched August 10, 2026, deepening accountant adoption.
- Kick says it serves thousands of U.S. businesses, signaling real market traction.
What critics are saying
- FreshBooks partnership makes revenue concentration dangerous if channel economics deteriorate in 2026.
- Bookkeeping automation faces Intuit, Xero, and FreshBooks bundling similar workflows quickly.
- Negative trust issues from 2025 streamer-death investigation still threaten brand credibility.
What makes Kick unique
- AI-native bookkeeping plus human review targets accountants, not just solo founders.
- FreshBooks named Kick its official bookkeeping partner on January 7, 2026.
- Kick’s accountant programs and community agents build distribution inside firm workflows.
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- Paid Vacation
- Company Equity