People & Talent Manager

Job Description

Job Description

THE OPPORTUNITY

Swish Breaks is redefining live shopping at scale. Headquartered in NYC, we’re the fastest-growing live commerce company in the U.S., powering 100,000+ orders per month across Whatnot, Fanatics Live, TikTok, and our own digital experiences. This isn’t a corporate job, it’s a front-row seat to building the future of live commerce. Our team moves fast, obsesses over the product, and is redefining the shopping experience for customers all over the globe. If you want to help change the game this is the place.

The People & Talent Manager owns how Swish hires, onboards, and develops great people while protecting culture and raising the talent bar as the company scales. This role ensures Swish grows fast without sacrificing quality, clarity, or standards. You’ll lead recruiting, build onboarding that ramps people quickly, and establish core people operations that support high performance. This is a hands-on builder role with a clear path to broader people leadership over time.

You will:

• Own end-to-end recruiting across Swish, from role scoping and sourcing to interviews, offers, and close

• Build a fast, repeatable hiring engine with clear workflows, scorecards, and interview loops

• Act as a hiring bar-raiser, empowered to challenge decisions and slow roles when candidates aren’t right

• Partner with leaders to clarify roles, leveling, and hiring priorities

• Design onboarding that helps new hires ramp quickly and feel connected from day one

• Own core people ops as the company scales, including feedback cycles, manager support, and basic performance processes

• Serve as a trusted point of contact for employees, handling sensitive issues with judgment and discretion

You have:

• 5-8+ years in recruiting, talent, or people roles at startups or fast-growing companies

• A proven track record of hiring strong operators and raising the talent bar

• Experience building or improving recruiting processes and onboarding systems

• Strong judgment around people, performance, and culture

• Comfort partnering directly with founders and senior leaders

• High emotional intelligence and clear communication skills

• A builder mindset—you move fast, iterate, and don’t wait for perfect conditions

• Experience in live shopping, creator marketplaces, ecommerce, sports, and/or TCG

• You are a culture warrior and thrive in expressive environments (streetwear, sports, gaming, media)

• You love creators, fans, collectors, and the culture that surrounds them — this isn’t just a job to you

• Model championship culture: speed, precision, no ego, no drama, high accountability

• High ownership: Leaders here solve, not wait

• No ego: We review, take feedback, fix mistakes fast

• Speed + judgment: You ship constantly

• AI-first: If it can be automated, you automate it

• In-office energy: Culture doesn’t build itself on Zoom

Compensation Range: $110K - $120K