Talent Team Lead, Product, Design, & Engineering

Anchorage Digital is a crypto-native company seeking a technical recruiting lead for their Protocols/Blockchain engineering teams. The role involves owning the full recruiting lifecycle for technical roles, mentoring other recruiters, and executing creative sourcing strategies for deeply technical talent.

Responsibilities:

• Owns end-to-end recruiting for the most technically demanding engineering roles
• Executes creative sourcing strategies for deeply technical, hard-to-find talent (distributed systems, blockchain, cryptography)
• Constructs robust pipelines with measurable metrics
• Reverse-engineers pipeline math independently (screens, loops, offers needed to hit hiring goals)
• Iterates to improve efficiency and scales what works
• Independently owns hiring outcomes for high-stakes roles without hand-holding
• Executes full-cycle recruiting with strong conversion metrics
• Partners with engineering managers and technical leads to calibrate on bar, refine interview loops, and close competitive offers
• Escalates appropriately on process changes, bar adjustments, and stakeholder commitments
• Works cross-functionally with engineers, EMs, and executives, flexing communication style based on audience
• Builds credibility with skeptical hiring managers through technical calibration
• Maintains tight feedback loop with leadership on progress, blockers, and learnings
• Balances velocity with judgment on things that ripple across teams
• Takes feedback cleanly, gives it constructively
• Adapts approach based on stakeholder needs and hiring manager input
• Mentors junior recruiters on pipeline strategy, technical calibration, and closing under pressure
• Extracts playbooks from successes and teaches others to replicate

Requirements:

• 8+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with significant time spent in crypto, fintech, or adjacent infrastructure spaces where you understand the talent landscape and candidate motivations
• Track record of hiring for deeply technical roles (blockchain, distributed systems, security, or similar) where candidates are competitive and closing requires more than just meeting compensation expectations
• Demonstrated ability to close competitive candidates with numbers to prove it: you can cite offer acceptance rates, wins against competing offers, or walk through creative close strategies under pressure
• Experience pitching equity in a way that inspires candidates to bet on upside rather than just comparing cash offers
• History of mentoring other recruiters on pipeline strategy, technical calibration, and closing
• Willingness to get in the weeds when stakes are high: you source, screen, and close alongside your team when it matters, while also knowing what to delegate and when to ask for help
• Experience in an environment where you were measured on placements or hires, not arbitrary activity: agency recruiting, quota-carrying in-house roles, or a sales-adjacent background where filling roles is the desired outcome
• You've worked at a crypto-native company where you already know the talent pools, compensation dynamics, and how to sell the opportunity to engineers who have competing offers
• You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system