Company Overview

Onyx Odds is a social sports prediction platform poised to shake up the world of sports. Onyx has seen immense growth in user activity and positive feedback resulting in an expansion of the team.

Onyx is a venture backed startup, having raised millions in VC funding. The founder is a Harvard grad with a background at Jane Street.

Onyx Odds is based in New York City with its offices in downtown Manhattan.

Job Description

We are looking to add someone to own Recruiting + People as we scale. This person will work directly with the founders to build the team and formalize the internal systems that support it.

This role combines full-cycle recruiting with early-stage people operations. You will drive hiring across the company while helping shape onboarding, performance processes, and team structure.

High-growth companies in sports, fintech, and prediction markets typically invest early in disciplined hiring and strong internal foundations. This role is critical to that effort.

Responsibilities

Talent Acquisition

• Own full-cycle recruiting from sourcing through offer

• Partner with leadership on hiring roadmap and headcount planning

• Build outbound sourcing pipelines across engineering, trading, operations, and CX

• Define role scopes and interview scorecards

• Track recruiting metrics and improve funnel conversion

• Manage candidate experience and offer closing

People Operations

Own onboarding experience and first 30 day plans

Maintain recruiting documentation and hiring systems

Help structure performance review cycles

Support compensation benchmarking and leveling frameworks

Partner with leadership on org design and team planning

Background

• 3 to 6 years of recruiting, talent acquisition, or people operations experience

• Experience in tech, fintech, gaming, trading, or high-growth startup environments

• Strong sourcing ability and comfort with outbound recruiting

• Experience building or improving people systems in a lean organization

• Highly organized with strong written and verbal communication

• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced startup environment

• Entrepreneurial mindset and strong ownership mentality

• Experience recruiting for engineering or quantitative roles is a plus

• A background or interest in sports, trading, predictions, or crypto is a plus

Visa Sponsorship: We are unable to offer employment visa sponsorship for this position.

What You'll Get

• Very competitive compensation bands with regular growth in pay scales

• Robust health, dental, and vision plans covering 100 percent of premiums

• Meaningful equity

• HSA account with significant company contributions

• Free in office lunch daily

Location

We are based in FiDi in New York City. This role is in office.