Build to Protect Civilization
TRM is a blockchain intelligence company that’s on a mission to build a safer world for billions of people. We’re a lean, high-impact team tackling some of the world’s most critical challenges, ranging from human trafficking and financial fraud to terrorist financing. We are builders who power governments, financial institutions, and crypto companies when the clock is running and the consequences are real. This is why every TRMer is a bet on our future and has the power to change our trajectory.
Our ability to identify, hire, and retain exceptional talent is foundational to our mission. The Talent team at TRM is made up of seasoned professionals who have experience hiring world-class Engineering, Data Science, GTM, and People teams for the most notable startups in Silicon Valley. As a Technical Recruiting Manager, you will lead and scale a team of high-performing recruiters focused on delivering top-tier technical talent to TRM. Your success will be measured by your team’s hiring quality, velocity, stakeholder partnership, and operational rigor.
The impact you’ll have here:
- Manage and coach a team of technical recruiters, raising the bar on sourcing strategy, candidate experience, and closing excellence.
- Oversee delivery of high-priority engineering and technical roles; step in on complex searches as needed.
- Partner closely with executives and hiring managers to calibrate, forecast, and course-correct hiring plans.
- Optimize tools, processes, and systems to drive speed, precision, and data hygiene across the recruiting funnel.
- Build a culture of excellence, feedback, and continuous improvement within the recruiting team.
What we’re looking for:
- 10+ years of technical recruiting experience, including 2+ years managing high growth teams
- Proven ability to hire for complex technical roles in high-growth environments
- Demonstrated success coaching recruiters and raising execution quality across a team
- Strategic thinker with strong instincts for prioritization, stakeholder alignment, and problem-solving
- Operationally excellent with experience managing recruiting tools, dashboards, and workflows
- Clear, concise communicator comfortable working with execs and distributed teams
About the Team:
- Our Talent team is fully remote, embracing async collaboration via Slack, documentation, and proactive updates.
- We meet weekly for hiring syncs, sourcing jams, and team huddles to support shared momentum and alignment.
- The team is known for rigor, humility, and craft obsession—we continuously refine systems and raise our own bar.
- Most team members operate with a 4+ hour overlap with PST; we value flexibility and autonomy with accountability.
Learn about TRM Speed in this position:
- Within 72 hours of receiving a new headcount request, the Recruiting Manager ensures an intake meeting is scheduled and reviews sample profiles with recruiters.
- Within 48 hours of initial candidate feedback, partners with recruiters to synthesize insights and evolve search strategy; expects A/B tested outreach to be in-market within 24 hours.
- Within the first week of launching a new search, team has surfaced and messaged 100+ targeted candidates and flagged key conversion levers by channel or source.
- Conducts weekly review of team performance dashboards to identify gaps in pipeline velocity, sourcing coverage, and candidate experience NPS.
- Proactively identifies 3–5 key team members or leaders with networks for a role and initiates sourcing jam sessions to maximize referral pipeline.
- Drives continuous improvement by coaching recruiters to transform data into insights and course-correct in real time, ensuring time-to-fill targets are met.
The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:
- The estimated base salary range for this role is $170,000 - $190,000.
- Additionally, this role may be eligible to participate in TRM’s equity plan.
- Please note – we factor in the different costs for geographies outside the United States.
Life at TRM
We build to protect civilization. That promise shows up in how we work every day.
TRM runs fast. Really fast. We’re a high-velocity team that expects ownership, clarity, and follow-through. People who thrive here are inspired by hard problems, experimentation, direct feedback. If it takes months elsewhere, it often ships here in days. If you are optimizing primarily for consistent work-life balance, use the interview process to pressure-test fit. We want teammates who thrive here, not just survive here.
We coach directly, assume positive intent, and play for the front of the jersey.
Leadership Principles
- 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.
Want to learn more about how we interview at TRM Labs? Check out more about our leadership principles and hiring process here.
What You’ll Do Here
This work has teeth. At TRM, your week might include:
- Driving critical investigations that can’t wait for typical business hours.
- Shipping products in days when others would schedule quarters.
- Partnering with teams across time zones to deliver insights while the story is still unfolding.
- Building new solutions from first principles when the playbook doesn’t yet exist.
- Protecting victims and customers by tracing illicit activity and disrupting criminal networks.
Join our Mission
We look for people who want their work to matter, who build with speed and rigor, and who take pride in protecting others through their craft. If you’re excited by TRM’s mission but don’t check every box, apply anyway. We hire for slope, judgment, and the will to learn fast.
Build to protect civilization. Let’s do it together.
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