Talent Team Lead, Product, Design, & Engineering

Technical Recruiting Lead (Protocols/Blockchain Engineering)

We're hiring a crypto-native technical recruiting lead to take ownership over our Protocols/Blockchain engineering teams. These teams build the financial infrastructure that lets institutions interact with hundreds of blockchain networks securely.

You'll own the full recruiting lifecycle for these roles: sourcing, screening, closing, and everything in between. This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll personally execute end-to-end while also serving as a mentor to other recruiters on the team, helping them sharpen their pipeline strategy and closing instincts.

We evaluate candidates across four key competencies: Technical Skills, Complexity and Impact of Work, Organizational Knowledge, and Communication and Influence. The sections below break down what we're looking for in each:

Technical Skills

• Owns end-to-end recruiting for the most technically demanding engineering roles. Executes creative sourcing strategies for deeply technical, hard-to-find talent (distributed systems, blockchain, cryptography).
• Constructs robust pipelines with measurable metrics. Reverse-engineers pipeline math independently (screens, loops, offers needed to hit hiring goals). Iterates to improve efficiency and scales what works.

Complexity and Impact of Work

• Independently owns hiring outcomes for high-stakes roles without hand-holding. Executes full-cycle recruiting with strong conversion metrics.
• Partners with engineering managers and technical leads to calibrate on bar, refine interview loops, and close competitive offers. Escalates appropriately on process changes, bar adjustments, and stakeholder commitments.

Organizational Knowledge

• Works cross-functionally with engineers, EMs, and executives, flexing communication style to build trust and drive alignment.
• Maintains tight feedback loop with leadership on progress, blockers, and learnings. Balances velocity with judgment on things that ripple across teams.

Communication and Influence

• Takes feedback cleanly, gives it constructively. Adapts approach based on stakeholder needs and hiring manager input.
• Mentors junior recruiters on pipeline strategy, technical calibration, and closing under pressure. Extracts playbooks from successes and teaches others to replicate.

You may be a fit for this role if you have:

• 8+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with significant time spent in crypto, fintech, or adjacent infrastructure spaces where you understand the talent landscape and candidate motivations.
• Track record of hiring for deeply technical roles (blockchain, distributed systems, security, or similar) where candidates are competitive and closing requires more than just meeting compensation expectations.
• Demonstrated ability to close competitive candidates with numbers to prove it: you can cite offer acceptance rates, wins against competing offers, or walk through creative close strategies under pressure.
• Experience pitching equity in a way that inspires candidates to bet on upside rather than just comparing cash offers.
• History of mentoring other recruiters on pipeline strategy, technical calibration, and closing.
• Willingness to get in the weeds when stakes are high: you source, screen, and close alongside your team when it matters, while also knowing what to delegate and when to ask for help.
• Experience in an environment where you were measured on placements or hires, not arbitrary activity: agency recruiting, quota-carrying in-house roles, or a sales-adjacent background where filling roles is the desired outcome.

Although not a requirement, bonus points if:

• You've worked at a crypto-native company where you already know the talent pools, compensation dynamics, and how to sell the opportunity to engineers who have competing offers.
• You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. :)

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