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Senior Talent Researcher

Remote within the United States

Build to Protect Civilization

TRM is a blockchain intelligence company that’s on a mission to build a safer financial system 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.

About the Position

As a Talent Researcher at TRM Labs, you’ll play a foundational role in enabling high-quality, high-velocity hiring. You will lead research efforts to uncover top talent in highly specialized domains, develop market intelligence, and build strategic longlists to accelerate hiring across technical teams. This role sits at the intersection of research, analysis, and recruiting execution — ideal for someone who is deeply curious, analytically sharp, and excited to build highly specialized team at scale.

The impact you’ll have here:

  • Build organizational charts and talent maps across high-priority companies and sectors, surfacing high-potential candidates and under-the-radar talent.
  • Partner with recruiters and hiring managers to define research questions and clarify search criteria. Translate fuzzy ideas into actionable frameworks and longlists.
  • Deliver competitive talent insights (e.g., compensation, location trends, hiring velocity) that shape hiring strategy and increase hiring precision.
  • Proactively maintain and refresh longlists in core verticals to support just-in-time sourcing when a new role opens.
  • Drive efficiency across the research function by improving tooling, workflows, templates, and data accuracy.

What we’re looking for:

  • 5+ years of experience in talent research, executive search, or sourcing with a strong research component.
  • Demonstrated ability to build talent maps and org charts across technical or executive roles.
  • Experience using sourcing/research tools like LinkedIn Insights, LinkedIn Recruiter, Gem, deep research techniques, and Airtable or GSheets.
  • Analytical mindset with ability to generate insights from data and present them in concise, actionable formats.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills; ability to collaborate asynchronously across time zones.
  • Comfortable working in ambiguity and shifting priorities in a high-growth, fast-paced environment.
  • Bonus if you’ve done research within: blockchain infrastructure, crypto security, fintech fraud, or government threat intelligence.

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 role intake, deliver a longlist of 30–50 uncontacted profiles, a draft org chart, and relevant market snapshots for recruiter and HM review.
  • Provide 2–3 competitor org breakdowns, compensation benchmarks, and job description comps within the first week to support calibration.
  • Identify 3–5 teammates with strong networks in target areas to drive referral mapping and increase pipeline depth.
  • Refresh and re-rank passive candidate pools bi-weekly, applying input from hiring team and market shifts.
  • Develop and maintain research templates, dashboards, and longlist hygiene best practices to help the team scale.

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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