Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Chainlink Labs is hiring an experienced Executive Recruiter to lead global searches for Director+ and executive-level talent across technical and business functions. The role owns searches end to end, partners with executive leaders on hiring strategy and assessment, and develops recruiting practices and processes across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Own and personally deliver global executive and senior leadership searches across technical and business functions, taking accountability for quality, pace, and outcomes throughout the search
- Partner directly with executive leaders to shape role scopes, candidate profiles, search strategies, assessment approaches, and compensation discussions
- Act as an influential talent advisor, bringing external market perspective and challenging assumptions where needed to improve hiring decisions
- Build comprehensive talent maps and candidate pipelines using multiple channels, including direct sourcing, executive networks, referrals, advisors, researchers, and external search firms
- Develop clear, concise, and high-quality search documentation, including briefing materials, market maps, candidate profiles, pipeline reporting, and executive updates
- Build and evolve executive recruiting practices, assessment frameworks, and processes that can be adopted consistently across the organization
- Deliver a thoughtful, high-touch candidate experience while maintaining the rigor required for complex executive hiring processes
- Develop trusted networks with senior leaders and executives globally, creating an ongoing source of market intelligence, referrals, and future candidates
- Partner effectively across a globally distributed organization, balancing urgency and an execution-focused mindset with thoughtful decision-making and attention to detail
Skills
- Significant experience personally delivering complex, multi-source executive searches within fast-paced technology organizations, including senior technical leadership hiring
- A track record of successfully hiring Director, VP, and/or C-level talent across multiple functions
- Demonstrated experience partnering directly with executive leaders as an influential advisor, including shaping role scopes, search strategies, assessment approaches, and compensation discussions
- Strong ownership mentality with a bias toward execution and a track record of delivering high-quality searches at pace
- Exceptional attention to detail and written communication skills, with the ability to distill complex searches into concise, decision-useful executive updates and candidate materials
- Experience developing executive recruiting processes, practices, and assessment frameworks that have been adopted more broadly within an organization
- Experience delivering executive searches across multiple international markets, ideally including North America and Europe
- A strong track record of balancing rigorous, multi-stage executive hiring processes with an excellent candidate experience
- Ability to operate effectively in an asynchronous, globally distributed environment and maintain momentum across multiple complex searches
- Experience partnering with founders and/or founder-led leadership teams on executive hiring strategy
- Experience within Web3, blockchain, crypto, Capital Markets, Fitech or another highly technical and rapidly evolving industry
- Demonstrated ability to combine multiple talent intelligence sources—including direct research, executive referrals, advisors, researchers, and search firms—to develop a comprehensive view of a market and its strongest talent
- A strong existing network of executives and senior technology leaders
- Experience building or materially improving an executive recruiting capability within a scaling organization
Benefits
- Remote-first organization
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