Senior 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 Senior Talent Partner to drive hiring across critical technical functions in a fast-scaling, globally distributed Web3 environment. This role goes beyond execution as you’ll act as a strategic partner to leadership, shaping hiring strategy, improving talent quality, and elevating how we assess and close top-tier candidates.

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

Your Impact

Partner with senior stakeholders within Engineering to define hiring strategy, role calibration and hiring execution

Own full-cycle recruiting for complex, high-impact roles (especially technical and niche Web3 positions)

Design and continuously improve structured hiring practices

Build and nurture high-quality talent pipelines using creative sourcing strategies and market insights

Act as a market expert, advising on talent trends, compensation expectations, and competitive positioning

Drive offer processes end-to-end, including closing strategy for senior and hard-to-close candidates

Contribute to employer branding and storytelling in the Web3 ecosystem

Requirements

Proven experience hiring top-tier talent in competitive, high-bar environments

Strong stakeholder management. You are able to influence and challenge hiring decisions

Data-driven mindset with a focus on quality, efficiency, and continuous improvement

Comfort operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments

Strong and proven resilience and ability to show up consistently through tough hiring cycles

Interest in or exposure to Web3, crypto, or deeply technical domains

All roles with Chainlink Labs are global and remote-based. Unless otherw