Executive Recruiter
About The Position
Chainlink is seeking an experienced Executive Recruiter to lead complex, high-impact searches across its global organization, with a focus on Director+ and executive-level roles in technical and business functions. This hands-on role owns searches from initial scoping through close, using rigorous research and sourcing alongside stakeholder management, candidate assessment, candidate experience, and execution. The recruiter will also help strengthen executive hiring by building practices, frameworks, and processes that improve recruiting quality and consistency across the organization. Chainlink Labs is a remote-first organization. Employment eligibility depends on residing in an approved hiring jurisdiction, and team members may work outside their primary country of legal residence for up to 90 days per calendar year. Unless otherwise stated for a specific role, working hours must overlap with Eastern Time (ET).
Requirements
- Significant experience personally delivering complex, multi-source executive searches in fast-paced technology organizations, including senior technical leadership hiring.
- A track record of hiring Director, VP, and/or C-level talent across multiple functions.
- Experience advising executive leaders directly, including shaping role scopes, search strategies, assessment approaches, and compensation discussions.
- Strong ownership mentality, execution bias, and a track record of delivering high-quality searches at pace.
- Exceptional attention to detail and written communication skills, including the ability to produce concise, decision-useful executive updates and candidate materials.
- Experience developing executive recruiting processes, practices, and assessment frameworks adopted more broadly within an organization.
- Experience delivering executive searches across multiple international markets, ideally including North America and Europe.
- A track record of balancing rigorous, multi-stage executive hiring with an excellent candidate experience.
- Ability to operate effectively in an asynchronous, globally distributed environment and maintain momentum across multiple complex searches.
Nice To Haves
- Experience partnering with founders and/or founder-led leadership teams on executive hiring strategy.
- Experience in Web3, blockchain, crypto, capital markets, fintech, or another highly technical and rapidly evolving industry.
- Ability to combine 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.
- An existing network of executives and senior technology leaders.
- Experience building or materially improving an executive recruiting capability within a scaling organization.
Responsibilities
- Own and personally deliver global executive and senior leadership searches across technical and business functions, with accountability for quality, pace, and outcomes.
- Partner directly with executive leaders to shape role scopes, candidate profiles, search strategies, assessment approaches, and compensation discussions.
- Advise on talent and external market conditions, challenging assumptions where appropriate to improve hiring decisions.
- Build talent maps and candidate pipelines through direct sourcing, executive networks, referrals, advisors, researchers, and external search firms.
- Create search documentation, including briefing materials, market maps, candidate profiles, pipeline reports, and executive updates.
- Build and evolve executive recruiting practices, assessment frameworks, and processes for consistent organizational use.
- Deliver a thoughtful, high-touch candidate experience while maintaining rigor in complex executive hiring processes.
- Develop trusted global networks of senior leaders and executives to support market intelligence, referrals, and future candidate sourcing.
- Partner across a globally distributed organization while balancing urgency, execution, thoughtful decision-making, and attention to detail.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
