Senior Talent Acquisition Partner
Nascent
The Opportunity
Nascent is hiring a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner to own and elevate how we spot, attract, and close world-class talent across our investing, engineering, and platform teams. This is a high-agency, high-impact role: you’ll design sourcing systems that scale, map talent markets with precision, and build hiring strategies that help our people leaders move faster and make sharper decisions.
You’ll operate as a strategic advisor and thought partner—someone who brings structured thinking, crisp synthesis, and deep recruiting craft to every search. You’ll build evidence-driven processes, architect outreach that punches through noise, and shape candidate experiences that reflect Nascent’s competitive, curious, truth-seeking culture.
If you’re an exceptional sourcer with mastery of LinkedIn Recruiter, talent intelligence, and AI-accelerated workflows—and you love working in environments where speed, ownership, and clarity matter—you’ll thrive here. This role is remote with occasional in-person work and one annual team retreat. We welcome candidates within ±4 hours of EST.
Key Responsibilities
Lead Full-Cycle Recruiting
- Own searches end-to-end for high-priority roles across investing, engineering, and platform teams—designing the strategy, sourcing the talent, and closing the hires.
- Partner deeply with leaders to define success profiles, build competitive hiring plans, and pressure-test assumptions with market data.
- Architect clear, high-signal funnel stages that enable fast calibration and evidence-based decision-making.
- Communicate with discipline—transform messy inputs into structured, actionable summaries; synthesize signals quickly for hiring teams; drive clarity at every touchpoint.
- Deliver crisp, compelling outreach and candidate communication that reflects Nascent’s tone and values.
- Run fast, tight interview loops—driving alignment, quality, and velocity from intake to offer.
Onboarding & Integration Support
- Partner with People Ops to ensure new hires ramp fast, feel connected, and understand how to win in their first 90 days.
- Conduct structured onboarding check-ins; surface insights that improve future ramp cycles.
About You
- You are an elite sourcer—deep LinkedIn Recruiter fluency, Boolean that actually works, and a track record of breaking into hard, opaque talent markets (crypto, AI/ML, infra, trading, frontier tech).
- You think in structure. You synthesize messy information into crisp insights, see patterns quickly, and bring clarity to ambiguous or evolving role needs.
- You value ownership. You run toward hard problems, move with urgency, and find creative paths around blockers.
- You thrive in lean, distributed teams—self-directed, adaptable, and always holding a high bar for yourself and others.
Required Experience
- 8–12 years of technical recruiting experience in high-performance, high-velocity environments (startups, trading, infrastructure, frontier tech, or similarly demanding domains).
- Expert-level sourcing capability—deep mastery of LinkedIn Recruiter, advanced Boolean, talent mapping, and creative outbound strategies that surface candidates others miss.
- Demonstrated success breaking into hard markets (crypto, AI/ML, engineering infrastructure, quant/trading, deep technical or niche leadership roles).
- Proven ability to build structured, evidence-based hiring strategies—assessment mapping, signal extraction, funnel design, and fast, disciplined decision-making.
- High-agency communication—concise synthesis, strong written instincts, and the ability to translate complexity into crisp recommendations.
- Data fluency—comfortable using funnel metrics, market intelligence, and performance signals to shape search strategy and diagnose bottlenecks.
Nice to Have
- Background building sourcing automations, AI-driven workflows, or dashboards that increase throughput and insight quality.
- Exposure to organizational design, role scoping, or workforce planning for technical or ambiguous roles.
- Experience running competitive intelligence: compensation benchmarking, talent heat maps, or competitor org analyses.
- Familiarity with assessment design—behavioral interviewing, structured evaluation, or assignment creation for technical and leadership roles.
- Experience thriving in lean, distributed teams with strong internal standards, direct feedback, and high expectations.
About Nascent
Founded in 2020, Nascent exists to build, expand, and capture opportunity in open markets and permissionless technologies. With permanent capital as our foundation, we deploy assets across both liquid and long-term strategies, and have invested in over 100 early-stage teams shaping the future of crypto and open finance.
We’re an interdisciplinary team of investors, builders, and creators—drawn together by curiosity, competition, and a shared drive to win. Our culture pairs autonomy with accountability and honest feedback. We invest deeply in our people and believe in combining the freedom to explore with the discipline to execute.
Principles That Drive Our Team
- Compete to win
- Explore, experiment, play
- Always be building
- Seek and speak truth
- Own your shit
What We Offer
- Competitive total compensation package
- Remote and distributed working environment
- Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision, life)
- 16 weeks fully paid parental leave + supported return to work
- Home office setup stipend + health and wellness stipend
- Retirement plan with matching contributions
- Flexible hours and open vacation policy
We are an equal opportunity employer and celebrate diversity and differences of perspectives. We do not discriminate on the basis of any status, inclusive of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.