Senior Talent Acquisition Partner

What you will do

• Be a key business partner to global leaders, particularly supporting our New York and Washington based leadership across functions. Shape their experience, manage expectations, and own talent partnerships.
• Deliver key hires. Personally manage critical hires across New York, Washington and other target hubs while managing a complex workload.
• Drive senior stakeholder engagement using outstanding communication skills in person and async to drive alignment and outcomes.
• Up level capability and assessment. Understand tooling and technology as an enabler. Be AI fluent and inquisitive. Use Claude to shape the way we work.
• Use data to drive better outcomes, from pipeline data to market intelligence and footprint planning. Move fast based on experience to drive data driven decisions.

What you will achieve in the first 6 months

• Establish yourself as a key talent business partner.
• Develop a clear view of the US talent landscape across your functional remit and use that insight to advise stakeholders on hiring strategy and market reality.
• Identify and embed AI in our processes and systems to deliver efficiencies and give time to the team to focus on partnerships.
• Support the VP of Talent in key projects and planning.
• Deliver critical hires which help us deliver on our goals.
• Identify tooling and sourcing methods which directly engage high quality and marketing talent scalably.

You will be a great fit here if you

• Have a strong track record of delivering critical US hires in a fast-paced fintech, Web3 or SaaS organisation.
• Are genuinely curious about AI and how it can transform recruiting — whether as a user of emerging tools or as a builder of automations and workflows.
• Are comfortable operating at the most senior levels of a business — advising C-suite stakeholders and representing Talent in leadership forums.
• Bring experience; formal or informal, delivering key talent projects and headcount planning.
• Thrive in environments of ambiguity. You are a self-starter who sets the agenda rather than waiting for direction.

Our ideal candidate has

• A track record of consistent recruiting experience with demonstrable expertise in cross-functional US hiring, ideally in digital assets, fintech, or crypto/Web3 in organisations focused on building talent density.
• Experience partnering with C-suite or VP-level revenue leaders as a strategic talent advisor, not just an order-taker.
• Been building in AI tools such as Claude to improve workflows and experiences. Also trialed agentic.
• Deep proficiency in Ashby, LinkedIn Recruiter, and talent intelligence tools.
• Strong data literacy: use metrics to tell stories, challenge assumptions, and drive decisions.

Bonus Points for

• Experience as a people manager who has made the conscious choice to return to an IC role and thrives in that environment.
• Experience operating in a global context hiring for hybrid roles in competitive talent markets.
• Experience of running and presenting talent intelligence campaigns supporting footprint planning.

Benefits

• Hybrid working and the option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year.
• £500 Remote working budget to set up your home office space.
• $1,000 Learning & Development budget to use on anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth and development.
• 25 days of annual leave + 8 US Public Holidays. An extra day for your birthday.
• Enhanced parental leave: 16 weeks fully-paid leave.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage through a range of providers (including Tufts, Kaiser, Aetna, UHC, and Blue Shield of CA) with generous premium contributions for you and your dependents.
• 401k: Company match included.
• Full access to Spill mental health support.