Principal Technical Recruiter – Engineering Leadership

TRM Labs

full-time

Posted on: 9/18/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States

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About the role

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 niche leadership roles across infrastructure, security, platform, product, and data.
Build and manage pipelines of passive leadership talent, map org charts, lead proactive outreach, and develop strategic sequencing.
Partner with founders and executives to define excellence through scorecards, rubrics, and interview design.
Deliver data-driven insights to refine search direction, improve conversion rates, and enable faster decisions.
Champion a world-class candidate experience and act as a thought partner to senior-level candidates.
Be embedded with founders and leadership from intake to close and drive hiring speed and quality.

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.
Maintain at least a 4-hour overlap with PST business hours; most team overlap between 7am-12pm PST.