Lead Talent Partner, Engineering
Chainlink Labs helped pioneer decentralized finance and now works with the world's largest financial institutions to enable transactions across the tokenized asset economy. It builds and operates the Chainlink platform, serving financial market infrastructures, asset managers, and top DeFi protocols.
About Chainlink Labs
Chainlink Labs is a company at the center of the shift of global finance onchain, working with financial market infrastructures, asset managers, and leading DeFi protocols. The company employs a world-class team of over 600 developers, researchers, and capital markets experts with deep experience in cryptography and decentralized systems, working toward building Chainlink into the global standard for onchain finance. Chainlink Labs operates a unified platform powering a global system of onchain finance across DeFi and TradFi, enabling significant transaction value across a multi-chain ecosystem, and has been battle-tested on mainnet for years with a strong security track record. Its clients and partners span capital markets, DeFi, gaming, and other major verticals, including partnerships with institutions such as ANZ Bank, DTCC, Swift, Sygnum, Fidelity International, and Fireblocks.
Skills
About the Role
You will lead technical hiring in a globally distributed Web3 environment, combining hands-on recruiting with people leadership. You'll manage a small team of Talent Partners while acting as a strategic partner to Engineering, Product, Security and Research leaders. You'll shape hiring strategy, elevate hiring quality, develop recruiting capability, and continuously improve how the company attracts, assesses and hires exceptional talent. You'll operate in a high-ambiguity environment where talent density is a competitive advantage, and where your hiring decisions directly impact product velocity and ecosystem growth.
Requirements
- Proven experience hiring top-tier technical talent in competitive high-bar environments
- Experience leading mentoring or coaching recruiters and building high-performing recruiting teams
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence challenge and advise senior leaders
- Data-driven mindset with a focus on quality efficiency team performance and continuous improvement
- Comfortable balancing hands-on recruiting with people leadership in a fast-paced ambiguous environment
- Interest in or exposure to Web3 crypto or deeply technical domains
- Located in EST CT or MST time zones
Responsibilities
- Lead coach and develop a team of Talent Partners supporting their growth performance and delivery
- Partner with senior stakeholders to define hiring strategy role calibration and execution across multiple teams
- Own full-cycle recruiting for critical high-impact technical roles while supporting your team on their most strategic searches
- Set a high bar for recruiting excellence through coaching structured hiring practices and consistent hiring quality
- Design and continuously improve hiring processes interview frameworks and assessment methodologies
- Build and nurture high-quality talent pipelines using creative sourcing strategies and market insights
- Act as a market expert advising leaders on talent trends compensation expectations and competitive positioning
- Drive complex offer negotiations and closing strategies for senior and hard-to-close candidates
- Partner closely with Talent leadership on capacity planning hiring prioritisation and operational improvements
- Contribute to employer branding and storytelling in the Web3 ecosystem
Benefits
- Long-term incentives
- Comprehensive benefits