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RenoFi is seeking a full-cycle Mortgage Sales Recruiter to build its pipeline of experienced Senior Loan Officers. The role owns candidate outreach, screening, interview coordination, offer and reference stages, while partnering closely with sales leadership on market hiring needs. The recruiter will source talent through recruiting platforms, validate mortgage production data using tools such as MMI, and maintain accurate ATS records in Lever. This is a remote role in a fast-growing, early-stage fintech environment with an emphasis on responsiveness, stakeholder management, and recruiting sales talent. Prior experience recruiting loan officers or comparable sales roles is strongly preferred.
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Dear Hiring Team,
I am excited to apply for the Mortgage Sales Recruiter role at RenoFi. My full-cycle recruiting experience, stakeholder partnership skills, and focus on building high-quality sales talent pipelines would enable me to support the hiring of successful Senior Loan Officers. I am comfortable managing sourcing, candidate evaluation, interview coordination, ATS accuracy, and timely candidate communication in a remote, fast-paced environment.
I am particularly drawn to RenoFi's mission to make renovation financing more accessible and would welcome the opportunity to help scale the team advancing that mission. Thank you for your consideration.
Sample interview questions
I build a targeted outreach strategy using talent mapping, referrals, industry communities, and direct sourcing. I tailor outreach to the candidate’s performance history and career motivations, then maintain consistent follow-up and a clear, efficient interview process.
I would review verified production information, ask structured questions about lead-generation channels and conversion performance, and explore the candidate’s personal referral network. I would also validate relevant production data through approved sources such as MMI and use references to corroborate performance.
I begin by aligning on the ideal candidate profile, non-negotiable qualifications, interview process, market realities, and hiring timeline. I provide recurring pipeline updates with data on outreach, responses, interview outcomes, and obstacles so we can make fast, evidence-based adjustments.
I establish clear communication expectations, use ATS workflows and templates responsibly, and ensure candidates receive timely updates after each stage. I prioritize personalized communication for active finalists while keeping all candidates informed and documenting feedback consistently.
I would track time to fill, qualified candidates submitted, interview-to-offer conversion, offer acceptance rate, source effectiveness, hiring-manager satisfaction, and new-hire retention or production outcomes. These metrics help identify which sourcing channels and evaluation methods produce successful loan officer hires.
RenoFi is hiring a recruiter to join our fast-growing, early-stage startup. As a sales-focused recruiter, you will be responsible for recruiting Senior Loan Officers with a proven track record of self-sourcing leads. Senior Loan Officers are able to offer the full range of RenoFi’s loan product suite, including RenoFi’s exclusive home equity renovation loans.
WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:
- Own the end-to-end recruiting process for Senior Loan Officer candidates – you’ll be their trusted contact and guide them from initial outreach and screening, to coordination of interviews with the team, and through the offer and reference check stages
- Engage with Sales leadership team to understand priorities for each market and corresponding resourcing needs
- Build trusted relationships with hiring managers and key stakeholders and coach them on hiring best practices
- Own the job posting process for various roles, including the drafting of job specs and posting to relevant sites including LinkedIn
- Manage and maintain the talent pipeline and leverage the data to inform hiring projections
- Maintain the ATS and provide timely and thoughtful feedback to all candidates to maintain data integrity
- Leverage all RenoFi recruiting platforms to actively engage and source candidates
- Validate potential candidate’s mortgage production using data sources such as MMI
- Provide weekly updates to key stakeholders on activities and pipeline
- Champion RenoFi’s culture & vision
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:
- Preference will be given to candidates with significant experience in recruiting loan officers and sales roles
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with proven negotiation skills
- Excellent time management and attention to detail
- Flexible and responsive to feedback, comfortable navigating ambiguity
- Committed to maintaining a high level of professionalism
- Proficient with Google Suite & ATS platforms – Our team uses Lever
Compensation
Compensation comprised of competitive base salary plus performance-based bonuses.
Additional Information
This role reports to our EVP of National Production and will work closely with our Retail Sales team.
We are committed to hiring and cultivating a diverse team. If you are uncertain about whether you meet our requirements, please apply anyway!
ABOUT US:
The demand for home renovations has never been stronger, yet, it’s surprisingly difficult for a new homeowner to renovate. It can take a decade to build up enough home equity and savings to pay for a major renovation. As a result, recent homeowners do a lot of financially-suboptimal things to compensate like borrow from their 401k, rack up credit card debt, and use high-interest personal loans. Or they just live unhappily for years in a home that doesn’t meet their family’s needs.
But by completing a major renovation, homeowners are increasing the value of their home. Professional real estate investors leverage this After Renovation Value (ARV) to roll the increase in value into new properties all the time. But there hasn’t been a great way for homeowners to take advantage of this. If homeowners had an ability to borrow against the ARV, they could increase their borrowing power up to 10x.
To meet this need, RenoFi created a platform that enables homeowners to borrow funds from RenoFi approved lenders in the form of the first home equity loan purpose-built for renovations! Unlike standard home equity loans, RenoFi Loans use the value of your home post-renovation which lets you borrow the most money at the best possible terms. RenoFi is creating a full suite of renovation loan products to better suit the needs of today’s homeowners!
For homeowners, RenoFi makes it possible to renovate years earlier than might be otherwise feasible. For contractors, we empower the financing of renovations at the point of sale, reducing instances of scope reduction, and ensuring prompt payment. Our lender partners, most often credit unions, rely on RenoFi’s platform to generate loans, create efficiencies, and grow membership. The lenders pay RenoFi for the new loans, which allows us to offer our services to homeowners for free. RenoFi is truly a win-win-win for everyone involved.
RenoFi is backed by some of the best startup investors in the world, including First Round Capital, Comcast Ventures, and Canaan Partners.
WE ARE A GLOBALLY DISTRIBUTED TEAM
RenoFi has been built from the start as a fully distributed team with an intentional focus on growing a strong team and culture that spans timezones and nationalities. Here’s one fun example!
Please highlight any prior experience working remotely when applying. US or GMT-adjacent timezones will be prioritized.
RenoFi offers competitive cash and equity compensation. Some benefit offerings will vary from country to country. In the United States, we offer competitive health and retirement plans. All staff across the globe enjoy a flexible vacation policy.
READ MORE ABOUT RENOFI
Our post announcing our funding: https://www.renofi.com/blog/financing-should-not-be-the-hardest-part-of-renovating/
Blog post by our lead investor announcing his investment in RenoFi: https://www.canaan.com/latest/brendan-dickinson-announcing-our-investment-in-renofi
National coverage by Housing Wire: https://www.housingwire.com/articles/renofi-raises-6-4-million-to-help-lenders-offer-home-renovation-loans/
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