Senior Talent Partner

Accountabilities: Manage full-cycle recruitment: Lead end-to-end hiring processes across engineering, product, design, go-to-market, and other business functions, from initial role definition through candidate selection and offer closure. Partner with leadership: Collaborate with hiring managers and senior stakeholders to define role requirements, establish hiring priorities, develop interview strategies, and align expectations with business objectives. Build proactive talent pipelines: Identify and engage high-quality passive candidates through direct sourcing, market research, referrals, professional communities, employer branding, and other relevant channels. Provide market insights: Deliver market mapping, compensation benchmarks, talent availability assessments, and realistic hiring timelines while advising stakeholders on recruitment challenges and potential trade-offs. Drive structured hiring processes: Develop compelling job descriptions, coordinate interview plans and scheduling, maintain accurate applicant tracking records in Greenhouse, prepare scorecards, and facilitate effective interview debriefs. Monitor recruitment performance: Track pipeline health, conversion rates, candidate experience, hiring manager responsiveness, decision-making speed, and potential offer or closing risks. Improve recruitment operations: Provide regular progress updates, identify process bottlenecks, and continuously enhance recruiting tools, workflows, and playbooks. Leverage technology and AI: Explore responsible automation and AI-powered recruitment solutions while maintaining appropriate human oversight throughout the hiring process. Strengthen employer branding: Contribute to initiatives that improve talent attraction, candidate engagement, and the organization's reputation as an employer. Requirements Professional experience: At least 5 years of full-cycle recruitment experience, including meaningful in-house recruiting experience within a high-growth startup or technology environment. Recruitment expertise: Proven success building proactive talent pipelines, sourcing passive candidates, and closing challenging positions across multiple business functions. Strategic partnership: Demonstrated ability to advise hiring managers and senior leaders on role definition, seniority levels, compensation expectations, market conditions, and recruitment strategies, including the confidence to challenge assumptions constructively. Technical understanding: Sufficient technical fluency to understand engineering, product, data, and security requirements and translate them into effective sourcing and candidate assessment strategies. Recruitment operations: Experience managing multiple concurrent searches, maintaining applicant tracking systems, and ensuring accurate recruitment data and reporting. Assessment capabilities: Strong understanding of structured interviewing, candidate evaluation, interview scorecards, and effective hiring processes. Communication skills: Excellent verbal and written communication, interpersonal skills, and the ability to build trusted relationships with candidates, hiring managers, and senior stakeholders. Organizational skills: Strong prioritization, attention to detail, sound judgment, and the ability to manage competing deadlines independently. Adaptability: A proactive, resourceful mindset with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving startup environment. Mission alignment: Genuine interest in Bitcoin, financial innovation, and the possibilities of non-sovereign money. Additional assets: Experience recruiting for Canadian technology startups, fintech companies, or regulated organizations; experience with senior leadership and hard-to-fill searches; familiarity with Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, Pin, or similar sourcing platforms; experience developing employer branding, recruitment analytics, automation, or AI-supported hiring practices. Languages: Professional fluency in English is required. Bilingual English and French proficiency is considered an advantage. Benefits Competitive compensation: Annual base salary ranging from CAD 120,000 to CAD 155,000 , depending on experience, skills, and qualifications. Equity ownership: Employee stock options as part of the overall compensation package. Performance development: Annual salary assessments and opportunities for performance-based increases. Health and wellness: Health and dental insurance coverage, including health and wellness spending accounts. Remote flexibility: Work remotely from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to office spaces in Montreal and Toronto. Professional development: CAD 2,000 annual learning budget for courses, certifications, and professional training. Paid time off: 20 vacation days annually, with an additional CAD 1,000 bonus when all annual vacation days are used. Parental support: Parental leave top-up providing up to 100% of salary for 18 weeks. Team connection: Quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsites to encourage collaboration and strengthen relationships. Career growth: Opportunities to develop professionally, take on meaningful responsibilities, and contribute ideas in a collaborative, growth-oriented environment. Meaningful impact: The opportunity to contribute to the evolution of financial services and help expand access to Bitcoin and innovative financial products across Canada.