Marketplace Quant Lead

About this role

We’re looking for a Marketplace Quant Lead to own the intersection of user growth, data-driven experimentation, and marketplace performance. In this role, you’ll split your time between talking directly to top recruiters on our platform and designing the experiments and analytics that drive real business impact.

You’ll be a core operator in our growth engine — unblocking problems, surfacing insights, running incentive tests, and measuring what actually moves the needle on hires, revenue, and NPS. This is a high-context, high-autonomy role with direct P&L impact and the ability to shape the trajectory of our marketplace.

What you’ll do

• Spend ~50% of your time talking to users — joining calls with top recruiters, identifying bottlenecks, and helping them grow six-figure books of business.

• Spend ~50% of your time as an experiment engine — designing incentive tests, defining success metrics, building dashboards, and analyzing what levers drive hires, revenue, and NPS.

• Own marketplace performance metrics, including Hires per Recruiter, Experiment Velocity & Wins, and Recruiter NPS.

• Translate on-the-ground insights into product, operational, and growth improvements.

• Partner closely with leadership to set marketplace strategy, prioritize initiatives, and track ROI.

• Iterate quickly — test, learn, and implement improvements in short cycles.

Qualifications

• 2–8 years of experience in Operations, Strategy, or Data at a fast-growing startup OR from a tier-1 management consulting firm, private equity, or investment bank.

• Proven ability to work directly with customers/users to uncover insights and drive outcomes.

• Strong analytical skills — comfortable designing experiments, defining metrics, and working with data to inform decisions.

• Experience working in high-growth, ambiguous environments with high autonomy.

• Strong communication skills — equally comfortable in front of users and internal leadership.

• Bias toward action, rapid iteration, and measurable results.

About Paraform:

Paraform is a recruiting platform for elite recruiters helping companies fill their most critical roles faster. By combining a high-performance network of independent recruiters and search firms with modern AI tools, Paraform gives companies a faster, more reliable way to hire top talent and gives recruiters the tools and flexibility to thrive.

We partner with industry leaders like Cursor, Palantir, Windsurf, Decagon, Hightouch, and many more to hire world-class talent.

We've grown extremely fast in the past year to mid 8-figures in ARR and are backed by the best investors and technology leaders: Felicis, A*, BOND, Liquid 2, DST Global, the founders of YouTube, Instacart, Canva, and more.