Manager, Technical Recruiting at Ripple · LumiJobs

Responsibilities

Build a contract recruiting team that performs like a top in-house team. You’ll set a high bar for your contract recruiters, assign searches by domain and capacity, coach them on sourcing and closing, and run pipeline reviews that lead to action. You’ll make direct calls on who stays, who grows and who rolls off.
Hire the technical talent and engineers who will shape Ripple’s next chapter. You’ll personally own Ripple’s most critical technical searches, including Staff+ and Principal engineers, engineering leaders, and domain specialists in protocol, distributed systems, security, and infrastructure. These are high-impact hires that define what our teams can build, and you’ll drive them from first outreach to signed offer.
Be the partner engineering and technical leaders turn to when a search is stuck. You use funnel data, market signals, and candidate feedback to diagnose why a role is off track, quickly pivoting the strategy to get hiring back on schedule before escalation is needed.
Find talent no one else is reaching. You’ll build pipelines in open source communities, GitHub, protocol and developer forums, conferences, academic labs and engineering referral networks. You’ll treat sourcing as an always-on advantage rather than something that starts when a req opens.
Raise the bar on how Ripple assesses technical talent. You’ll partner with technical and engineering leaders to design structured interview loops, calibrate on what great looks like for each role, and maintain rigorous evaluation standards to ensure hiring decisions are grounded in evidence rather than gut feel.
Use AI where it measurably helps. You’ll find where AI can improve sourcing, market research, outreach and screening prep. You’ll run focused pilots against a clear baseline, scale what works and drop what doesn’t, and keep humans in charge of judgment calls about candidates and how we treat them.
Turn what works into repeatable playbooks. Your best sourcing strategies, closing approaches and search playbooks become standard practice for the wider technical recruiting team.
Shape where we invest. You’ll feed hiring capacity planning, manage agency and contractor spend for cost and results, and bring leadership clear, data-backed recommendations on tradeoffs, not just status updates.
Keep the basics clean: consistent process, accurate data in the ATS, and full EEO/AA compliance across the team.
What you’ll bring:
8+ years in recruitment, with a heavy focus on software engineers and broader technical talent within tech, fintech, or crypto. Proven track record of creative problem-solving to source top-tier talent in highly competitive markets.
A track record of closing the searches that matter most. You’ve hired Staff+ and Principal engineers, technical leaders and narrow specialists (distributed systems, security, infrastructure, protocol or blockchain). You can walk us through the hardest one: how you found the person, why they said yes, and what nearly derailed it.

Manager, Technical Recruiting

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Ripple

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