Founding Recruiter

Allium

19d•Remote

About The Position

Allium makes blockchain data accurate, simple and fast Blockchain data is hard, messy, and chaotic When we started out in late 2021 our thesis was simple - blockchain data, despite it being public and free, was difficult to understand, clunky to access and troublesome to maintain. Answering a simple question like “Who are the biggest Ethereum token holders over time?” requires an engineering team to run their own RPC nodes, ingest the full history of the blockchain, clean the data, transform the data and finally summon a wizard to cast a complex SQL query. Accessing data is hard because blockchains are optimized for Writes and not Reads Why is it so hard? Blockchains have historically been optimized for Writes (getting data onto the blockchain) and less for Reads (getting data OUT of the blockchain). This is because optimization efforts were focused on increasing transaction throughput and building fault tolerant and scalable consensus algorithms. This neglect makes it hard to get data out efficiently and reliably at scale. Parsing and interpreting blockchain data requires both deep domain expertise and data manipulation To quote Tim Roughgarden, Columbia Professor, “Blockchains are (virtual) computers, not databases.” They are Turing machines that support general computations, and anyone can write and deploy their own smart contract for their own use case. This nearly infinite number of use cases leads to the fragmentation of data schemas for different purposes. Standardizing these schemas requires deep domain expertise to turn esoteric technical outputs into clear information for specific concepts like tokens, NFTs, stablecoins and DEXs. Allium abstracts the complexity with a simple way to query blockchain data Allium tames the chaos by ingesting, sanitizing, and standardizing all this data. As of this post, the data we’ve archived across 100+ blockchains is in the petabytes and growing exponentially. Google and Bloomberg had to organize the world's public financial and webpage data, Allium is on a mission to do the same for blockchain data This is one of the rare times in history where indexing a giant public dataset is sorely needed by all - similar to what Bloomberg did for financial data and what Google organized for public webpage data. With this indexed data, we are fortunate to support trailblazers in this industry and play some role the industry’s most exciting trends: About our customers We serve 2 groups of customers today with the same data but different platform. Analysts who need to answer data questions about the blockchain (think BI) and Engineers who need highly reliable data queryable in near realtime (think Application backends). Our customers include the biggest institutions Visa, Stripe, Grayscale and also the biggest crypto companies such as Phantom, Uniswap. Allium is one of the unique companies in the industry that bridge blockchain and non blockchain worlds.

Requirements

5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally including high-growth startup experience.
Demonstrated ability to hire technical and GTM roles with high talent bars.
A track record of building and operating early-stage recruiting systems from scratch.
Strong sourcing abilities, especially outbound; excellent storytelling and selling skills.
Exceptional communication skills and the ability to influence founders & senior candidates.
Highly organized, metrics-oriented, and comfortable operating autonomously.
Thrives in 0→1 environments—scrappy, creative, resourceful, and high-velocity.
Deep empathy for candidates and a commitment to delivering a great experience.

Nice To Haves

Bonus: experience setting up ATS systems, compensation frameworks, or employer branding, experience in Web3/ Crypto Native companies

Responsibilities

Own full-cycle recruiting across Engineering (backend, full-stack, infra, ML), GTM (sales, CS, marketing), and G&A roles.
Build a repeatable, data-driven hiring engine—including pipeline generation, interview loops, scorecards, and closing strategies.
Develop Allium’s talent brand through outbound campaigns, creative sourcing, and compelling candidate experiences.
Collaborate with founders and hiring managers to define role requirements, success criteria, and ideal candidate profiles.
Serve as a culture carrier during our earliest growth phase; help shape hiring philosophy, values, and operational rigor.
Manage recruiting tools, systems, and analytics; introduce scalable processes as we grow.
Build and nurture a diverse, high-caliber talent network that gives Allium a long-term recruiting advantage.
Run founder-level searches and close candidates in highly competitive markets.
Optionally: own contract pipelines, university recruiting experiments, or initial people-ops workflows.