Recruiting Manager, Product & Engineering

As Recruiting Manager for Product and Engineering at TRM Labs, you lead the recruiting team responsible for hiring the talent that builds and brings to market critical features and products. You report directly to the VP of Talent and serve as a strategic recruiting partner to Product and Engineering executives, translating ambitious product roadmaps into hiring strategies, developing a high-performing recruiting team, and delivering exceptional talent at scale.

What you'll do

• Lead, coach, and scale a team of recruiters responsible for Product and Engineering hiring, raising the bar on sourcing strategy, candidate assessment, candidate experience, and closing.
• Drive high-volume recruiting across full-stack, backend, and frontend engineering, alongside strategic Product Management searches, consistently delivering against ambitious hiring goals while maintaining an exceptional bar for talent.
• Build trusted relationships with senior Product and Engineering executives, translate business priorities into hiring strategies, influence decisions, challenge assumptions, navigate competing priorities, and drive alignment and accountability on hiring outcomes.
• Anticipate Product and Engineering hiring demand, translate headcount plans into recruiter capacity models, and develop sourcing and execution strategies that enable TRM to scale ahead of need.
• Leverage funnel metrics, dashboards, and market insights to identify bottlenecks, improve conversion rates, accelerate hiring velocity, and increase recruiter productivity and forecasting accuracy.
• Leverage AI, automation, and emerging recruiting technologies to rethink traditional workflows, improve sourcing effectiveness, and build scalable recruiting systems.
• Establish clear performance expectations, deliver actionable coaching, and create an environment where recruiters take ownership of outcomes, challenge assumptions, and continuously sharpen their craft.

What you bring

• 10+ years of recruiting experience, with deep expertise hiring Product and Engineering talent, including Product Managers and full-stack, backend, and frontend software engineers.
• 4+ years of people management experience, including demonstrated success leading Product and Engineering recruiting teams in high-growth technology companies.
• Proven success delivering high-volume engineering hiring, with demonstrated ability to scale recruiting output while maintaining exceptional quality, efficiency, and candidate experience.
• Exceptional executive stakeholder management skills, with a track record of building credibility and trusted partnerships with senior Product and Engineering executives, influencing hiring strategy, navigating difficult conversations, challenging assumptions, and driving accountability across leadership teams.
• Demonstrated ability to coach, develop, and elevate recruiter performance through clear expectations, consistent feedback, hands-on problem-solving, and performance management.
• Deep understanding of Product and Engineering talent markets, technical sourcing strategies, candidate assessment, and the nuances of recruiting across Product Management and software engineering disciplines.
• Strong operational and analytical capabilities, including experience with recruiter capacity planning, funnel metrics, dashboards, and data-driven performance management.
• A builder's mindset with demonstrated success improving recruiting processes, experimenting with new approaches, and leveraging AI and automation to increase effectiveness.
• Exceptional communication, prioritization, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and drive alignment across distributed teams.

What we offer

• Base salary of $200,000-$220,000.
• Eligibility to participate in TRM's equity plan.
• Fully remote work with 4+ hour overlap with PST expected; the Talent team embraces async collaboration via Slack, documentation, and proactive updates.

About TRM Labs

TRM Labs is a Series C company with $220M in total funding backed by Goldman Sachs, Bessemer, Y Combinator, Thoma Bravo, and others. TRM provides AI-powered intelligence solutions that help public and private sector agencies investigate and disrupt crime. Headquartered in San Francisco, TRM operates as a distributed-first company with hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Washington D.C., London, and Singapore.