Executive Recruiter

Your Impact

Requirements

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.
• Chainlink Labs is a remote-first organization and employment eligibility is contingent upon residing in an approved hiring jurisdiction. Team members may work outside their primary country of legal residence for a maximum of 90 days per calendar year. Please discuss your current location, legal residence, and work authorization with your recruiter during your initial conversation. Unless otherwise stated for a specific role, we require working hours that overlap with Eastern Time (ET).
• We carefully review all applications and aim to provide a response to every candidate within two weeks after the job posting closes. The closing date is listed on the job advert, so we encourage you to take the time to thoughtfully prepare your application. We want to fully consider your experience and skills, and you will hear from us regarding the status of your application shortly after the closing date.

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