Executive Recruiting Lead

About the role

As an Executive Recruiting Lead at Chainlink Labs, you will be responsible for driving the recruitment of senior leadership across various functions, focusing on roles at the Director level and above. You will partner with executives to define role scopes and candidate profiles while ensuring a high-quality candidate experience throughout the hiring process.

Chainlink is a leading oracle platform in the blockchain space, powering a significant portion of decentralized finance. The company values a strong execution-focused mindset and seeks someone who can thrive in a fast-paced, asynchronous environment while maintaining attention to detail in complex executive searches.

Who this role suits

• Experienced in delivering complex executive searches within technology organizations.
• Strong communicator with the ability to distill complex information into clear updates.
• Proven track record of partnering with executive leaders on hiring strategies.
• Comfortable working in a remote, distributed team environment.

From the employer

Your Impact

• 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.

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, Fintech 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.