Principal Technical Recruiter - Engineering Leadership

TRM Labs • Full-time • Remote (United States) • 2m ago

TRM Labs is a blockchain intelligence company committed to fighting crime and creating a safer world. By leveraging blockchain data, threat intelligence, and advanced analytics, our products empower governments, financial institutions, and crypto businesses to combat illicit activity and global security threats. At TRM, you'll join a mission-driven, fast-paced team made up of experts in law enforcement, data science, engineering, and financial intelligence, tackling complex global challenges daily. Whether analyzing blockchain data, developing cutting-edge tools, or collaborating with global organizations, you'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful and lasting impact.

We’re seeking an experienced Principal Technical Recruiter to lead hiring for TRM's Engineering Leadership team—critical positions that will shape the future of our infrastructure, product, and team. You’ll be the tip of the spear in sourcing, engaging, and closing world-class engineering leaders who thrive in ambiguity, ship with urgency, and know how to scale systems and teams. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role: You’ll be embedded with our founders and the leadership team to hire top leadership talent from job intake to close.

The impact you’ll have here:

Own the full lifecycle of engineering leadership searches—Senior Manager to VP level—including calibration, sourcing, interviewing, offer negotiation, and onboarding transitions.
Design and drive bespoke search strategies for deeply technical and often niche leadership roles across infrastructure, security, platform, product, and data.
Build and manage pipelines of passive leadership talent, mapping org charts, leading proactive outreach, and developing strategic sequencing.
Partner with founders and executives to define what excellence looks like and shape TRM’s leadership bar through scorecards, rubrics, and interview design.
Deliver data-driven insights to continuously refine search direction, improve conversion rates, and enable faster, better decisions.
Champion a world-class candidate experience, acting as a thought partner to senior-level candidates navigating multiple high-stakes opportunities.

What we’re looking for:

10+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting, with 3+ years focused on hiring Engineering Leaders in high-growth US-based startups or fast-scaling companies.
Proven ability to run bespoke search strategies: you know how to find needles in haystacks and can explain how you got there.
Deep experience with sourcing tools, Boolean searches, org chart mapping, and building out high-conversion leadership pipelines.
Comfort operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments—you move fast, recalibrate often, and thrive with little hand-holding.
Data-literate: You leverage funnel metrics, candidate feedback, and market trends to improve outcomes and guide hiring teams.
Executive presence and storytelling: You can speak founder-to-founder and craft compelling narratives that resonate with senior technical leaders.

About the Team:

Our talent team is fully remote, embracing async communication and collaboration through Slack channels, thorough documentation, and proactive updates to keep work moving forward smoothly across time zones.
We’re committed to structured alignment, holding weekly hiring syncs for each role, weekly team sourcing syncs, and bi-weekly team meetings to ensure everyone is on the same page and to solve challenges collectively.
Driven by a dedication to our craft, we continuously refine our best practices and data quality to deliver an exceptional experience for both internal stakeholders and candidates, supported by precise, reliable reporting.
As a globally distributed team, we operate across various time zones, yet most of us overlap for collaboration and meetings between 7am-12pm PST, bringing flexibility and resilience to our work routines.
All team members, regardless of location, maintain at least a 4-hour overlap with PST business hours to enable real-time collaboration and drive solutions effectively across the team.

Learn about TRM Speed in this position:

Within 72 hours of receiving a position, you schedule the intake meeting, open the position in the ATS, post the description, design the interview process, configure the interview plan.
Within week of opening a position, you have conducted 5-10 Recruiter Screens and have conducted the first sync with the Hiring Team for calibration.
Two weeks after the initial interviews, you analyze the data to identify what is and isn’t driving pass rates and conversions. You share your insights and recommendations with the hiring team to refine and optimize the search, and you continue to monitor and adjust the approach until the position is filled.

Life at TRM Labs

Leadership Principles

Our Leadership Principles shape everything we do—how we make decisions, collaborate, and operate day to day.

Impact-Oriented Trailblazer – We put customers first, driving for speed, focus, and adaptability.
Master Craftsperson – We prioritize speed, high standards, and distributed ownership.
Inspiring Colleague – We value humility, candor, and a one-team mindset.

Accelerate your Career

At TRM, you’ll do work that matters—disrupting terrorist networks, recovering stolen funds, and protecting people around the world. You will:

Work alongside top experts and learn every day.
Embrace a growth mindset with development opportunities tailored to your role.
Take on high-impact challenges in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Thrive in a culture of coaching, where feedback is fast, direct, and built to help you level up.

What to Expect at TRM

TRM moves fast—really fast. We know a lot of startups say that, but we mean it. We operate with urgency, ownership, and high standards. As a result, you’ll be joining a team that’s highly engaged, mission-driven, and constantly evolving.

To support this intensity, we’re also intentional about rest and recharge. We offer generous benefits, including PTO, Holidays, and Parental Leave for full time employees.

That said, TRM may not be the right fit for everyone. If you're optimizing for work life balance, we encourage you to:

Ask your interviewers how they personally approach balance within their teams, and
Reflect on whether this is the right season in your life to join a high-velocity environment.
Be honest with yourself about what energizes you—and what drains you

We’re upfront about this because we want every new team member to thrive—not just survive.

The Stakes Are Real

Our work has direct, real-world impact:

Jumping online after hours to support urgent government requests tracing ransomware payments.
Delivering actionable insights during terrorist financing investigations.
Collaborating across time zones in real time during a major global hack.
Building new processes in days, not weeks, to stop criminals before they cash out.
Analyzing blockchain data to recover stolen savings and dismantle trafficking networks.

Thrive as a Global Team

As a remote-first company, TRM Labs is built for global collaboration.

We cultivate a strong remote culture through clear communication, thorough documentation, and meaningful relationships.
We invest in offsites, regional meetups, virtual coffee chats, and onboarding buddies to foster collaboration.
By prioritizing trust and belonging, we harness the strengths of a global team while staying aligned with our mission and values.

Join our mission!

We’re looking for team members who thrive in fast-paced, high-impact environments and love building from the ground up. TRM is remote-first, with an exceptionally talented global team. If you enjoy solving tough problems and seeing your work make a difference for billions of people, we want you here. Don’t worry if your experience doesn’t perfectly match a job description— we value passion, problem-solving, and unique career paths. If you’re excited about TRM’s mission, we want to hear from you.

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