Chainlink Labs - Executive Recruiting Lead

• 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. • 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). • The closing date is listed on the job advert, so we encourage you to take the time to thoughtfully prepare your application. • Commitment to Equal Opportunity