Senior / Lead IT Recruiter (Blockchain / Crypto)

We are looking for a Senior / Lead IT Recruiter with experience in the blockchain / crypto domain who can fully own and scale our hiring function. Your main mission will be to find and close top-tier talent, build a strong candidate pipeline, and develop recruitment processes and structure from scratch. You will work directly with company leadership, represent the company on the market, and gradually build a small recruitment team around you.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the full recruitment cycle: job descriptions, sourcing, screening, interviews, feedback, offers, and closing.
• Actively source and engage candidates through LinkedIn, Djinni, and other professional platforms and communities.
• Make sure every candidate, whether hired or not, leaves with a great impression of us.
• Build and constantly maintain a pool of candidates and run ongoing passive search to cover new and emerging hiring requests.
• Collaborate closely with CTO/COO/founders to clarify role requirements and prioritize vacancies.
• Represent and “sell” the company and roles to candidates, clearly communicating our culture, values, and growth opportunities.
• Analyze the IT and crypto labor market, salary ranges, and competitor activity; provide insights and suggestions.
• Track and analyze recruitment metrics (time-to-fill, conversion rates, pipeline quality) and improve processes based on data.
• Create and maintain internal standards and documentation for recruitment processes.
• Write recruitment-related articles, posts, or case studies to share our experience and strengthen the employer brand.
• Be proactive in introducing new approaches, tools (including AI), and methods to improve sourcing and selection.
• Build recruitment structure: set up processes, design methodologies, help hire and mentor additional recruiters in the future.

Requirements:

• Experience working with a blockchain / crypto domain company or recruiting for Web3 roles.
• 3+ years of experience as an IT recruiter / talent sourcer (experience in a Senior or Lead role is a strong plus).
• Understanding of the IT market, salary ranges, competitors, and current market tendencies.
• Strong sourcing skills using LinkedIn, Djinni, and other professional platforms.
• Proven successful experience in full life-cycle recruiting (from intake call to signed offer).
• Ability to manage multiple vacancies at once, prioritize, and deliver on time.
• Ability to create sourcing strategies for different roles and generate a steady pipeline for each position.
• Experience using AI models (ChatGPT or others) for sourcing, screening, communication, or process optimization.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills: you can build trust with both candidates and hiring managers.
• Strong conversational English (C1 level) for effective communication. Ability to conduct interviews with international applicants fully in English and assess language proficiency when needed.

Soft skills & mindset:

• Strong ability to understand a person’s “vibe”, soft skills, and culture fit.
• Ability to understand the philosophy of the company and find employees who match it.
• Polite, respectful, and friendly with candidates, able to stay professional and kind even in a bad mood or under pressure.
• Ready to be the “face” of the company for candidates and represent us consistently and clearly.
• Genuine passion for recruitment. You love being a Recruiter, like talking to people, and enjoy closing roles and improving the process.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with candidate screening optimization using AI tools.
• Experience writing public content (articles, LinkedIn posts, case studies) about recruitment or hiring practices.
• Experience introducing new approaches, tools, and methodologies to a recruitment process.

Basic HR experience (not mandatory, but a plus):

• Participation in onboarding, adaptation, and offboarding processes.
• Administrative support in HR systems (e.g. PeopleForce: tracking holidays, sick leaves, HR docs).
• Understanding of the full HR cycle in a company.

Compensation and Benefits:

• Top-market salary, discussed individually based on experience.
• Fully remote work within GMT—GMT+2.
• 16 paid working days of annual leave, 8 paid public holidays, and 5 paid sick days per year, plus an additional 15 working days of unpaid leave.
• English lessons coverage.
• Bonus system based on performance and closed positions.
• A flexible, remote-friendly environment with real opportunities to grow into a Lead of the recruitment function and build your own processes and team.