Lead Talent Partner, Engineering

About Chainlink
Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance (DeFi). The Chainlink stack provides the essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards needed to power advanced blockchain use cases for institutional tokenized assets, lending, payments, stablecoins, and more. Since inventing decentralized oracle networks, Chainlink has enabled tens of trillions in transaction value and now secures the vast majority of DeFi.

Many of the world’s largest financial services institutions have also adopted Chainlink’s standards and infrastructure, including Swift, Euroclear, Mastercard, Fidelity International, UBS, S&P Dow Jones Indices, FTSE Russell, WisdomTree, ANZ, and top protocols such as Aave, Lido, GMX and many others. Chainlink leverages a novel fee model where offchain and onchain revenue from enterprise adoption is converted to LINK tokens and stored in a strategic Chainlink Reserve. Learn more at chain.link.

About The Role

Chainlink Labs is looking for a Talent Lead to lead Technical hiring in a globally distributed Web3 environment. This role combines hands-on recruiting with people leadership, managing 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 we attract, assess and hire exceptional talent.

You'll operate in a high-ambiguity environment where talent density is a competitive advantage, and where exceptional hiring decisions directly impact product velocity and ecosystem growth.

Your Impact

• 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

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

All roles with Chainlink Labs are global and remote-based. Unless otherwise stated, we ask that you try to overlap some working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST).

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