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Head of Talent

Kastle· Operations
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$200k - $250kFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Talent leadership role at Kastle to build and scale the people function, aligning HR strategy with rapid growth in a regulated fintech environment.

Responsibilities

  • Manage our recruiting team and partner with leadership on hiring strategy and process improvements
  • Own and be responsible for building a recruiting machine that attracts the best talent across engineering, product, GTM, deployments, and operations
  • Build and own our people strategy - performance management, compensation, employee development, and culture
  • Partner with leadership on organizational design, headcount planning, and talent decisions
  • Evolve HR infrastructure - refine policies, ensure compliance, optimize benefits programs
  • Design and implement performance management frameworks - goal-setting, reviews, promotion cycles, career development
  • Lead compensation strategy - maintain equitable pay bands, manage equity grants, conduct market benchmarking
  • Drive culture and engagement initiatives - team events, values definition, employee feedback loops, DEI programs
  • Ensure compliance with employment laws and regulations across all locations

Qualifications

  • 5-8+ years in People/HR roles at high-growth startups, with at least 2 years in leadership
  • Experience scaling people functions at early-stage companies (50-200 employees)
  • Track record designing and implementing people processes (performance management, compensation, onboarding, career frameworks)
  • Business partner mentality - you advise leadership on strategic decisions, not just execute HR tasks
  • AI Native. Strong experience working with Claude Code, Cursor, etc to build sourcing agents.
  • Strong coaching skills - you develop managers and help them navigate people challenges
  • Comfort with ambiguity - you build infrastructure without waiting for perfect clarity
  • Excellent judgment on sensitive employee matters

Skills

Required:Talent strategyRecruiting leadershipHR policy and complianceCompensation designPerformance management
Nice to have:DEI and cultureAI sourcing tools

Benefits

  • medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • 401(k)
  • catered lunches and dinners
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Kastle

AI agents for mortgage servicing

Kastle is an AI voice agent for mortgage servicing. We help servicers collect payments, verify new borrowers, and qualify new loan inquiries over the phone. Rishi and Nitish met at UIUC where they graduated with degrees in systems engineering and computer science. Rishi was the founding Product Manager for Redfin’s Mortgage Marketplace at 22 and grew the business from $3M to $6M in revenue in 9 months. Nitish patented Verkada’s motion search system and was the youngest tech lead at the company at 23. While building Redfin's Mortgage Marketplace Rishi realized traditional lenders didn't have the infrastructure to service online inquiries and were losing customers. Nitish and Rishi are building Kastle to help traditional financial services companies better interface with their customers.

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