Senior Recruiter

BitGo (NYSE: BTGO) is the digital asset infrastructure company delivering custody, wallets, staking, trading, financing, stablecoins, and settlement services from regulated cold storage. Since 2013, BitGo has focused on accelerating the transition of the financial system to a digital asset economy. BitGo maintains a global presence and multiple regulated entities, including BitGo Bank & Trust, National Association, the first federally chartered digital asset trust bank owned by a publicly traded company. Today, BitGo serves thousands of institutions, including many of the industry's top brands, financial institutions, exchanges, and platforms, and millions of investors worldwide. For more information, visit www.bitgo.com.

We are looking for a Headhunting Recruiter who excels at finding and engaging exceptional talent, especially for niche, specialized, and hard-to-fill roles. This role is heavily focused on proactive talent discovery, market mapping, passive candidate engagement, and building strong talent pipelines.

This is a 1-year contract position, based in Bangalore, India.

You will work closely with hiring managers and the broader recruiting team to understand hiring needs, identify the right talent pools, and proactively reach out to candidates who may not be actively looking for a new opportunity.

What You’ll Do

• Own proactive sourcing and headhunting for niche, specialized, and senior-level roles.
• Build targeted talent maps across companies, industries, technologies, and geographies.
• Identify and engage passive candidates through LinkedIn, professional networks, referrals, communities, and other sourcing channels.
• Develop creative sourcing strategies for roles where traditional job postings have limited impact.
• Conduct detailed candidate research to understand skills, experience, career trajectory, and potential fit before outreach.
• Write personalized and compelling outreach messages that drive meaningful candidate engagement.
• Build and maintain strong pipelines of qualified talent for current and future hiring needs.
• Partner closely with recruiters and hiring managers to understand role requirements, priorities, and candidate profiles.
• Use market intelligence to provide insights on talent availability, competitor hiring, compensation trends, and relevant talent pools.
• Track sourcing activity, conversion rates, pipeline health, and other recruiting metrics.
• Maintain accurate candidate information and sourcing activity in the ATS.
• Continuously experiment with new sourcing tools, platforms, communities, and techniques to improve hiring outcomes.
• Build long-term relationships with high-quality candidates, even when there is no immediate opening.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of experience in recruiting, executive search, talent sourcing, or headhunting, preferably in a high-growth or technology environment.
• Strong experience sourcing passive candidates for difficult-to-fill roles.
• Proven ability to identify and engage talent through LinkedIn and other creative sourcing channels.
• Strong understanding of Boolean search, X-ray search, talent mapping, and advanced sourcing techniques.
• Excellent research skills and the ability to identify talent beyond obvious candidate pools.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, particularly for candidate outreach and engagement.
• Ability to understand technical or specialized roles and translate hiring requirements into effective sourcing strategies.
• Comfortable working with hiring managers and challenging candidate profiles to build targeted search strategies.
• Data-driven approach with an understanding of sourcing and funnel metrics.
• Highly persistent, resourceful, and comfortable working on roles where the talent pool is limited.

Good to Have

• Experience hiring for Engineering, Product, Data, Security, Compliance, or other specialized technology roles.
• Experience working in startups, high-growth companies, or fast-paced environments.
• Exposure to executive search or senior-level hiring.
• Experience with sourcing tools, talent intelligence platforms, or recruiting automation/AI tools.

What Success Looks Like

• Strong pipelines built for hard-to-fill roles.
• High-quality passive candidates consistently entering the hiring funnel.
• Strong candidate response and conversion rates from outbound sourcing.
• Reduced time spent searching for qualified talent.
• High-quality hires generated through proactive talent identification.
• A continuously expanding network of relevant talent across key hiring markets.

Why Join BitGo?

Disrupting an industry takes vision, innovation, passion, technical chops, drive to deliver, collaboration, and execution. Join a team of great people who strive for excellence and personify our corporate values of ownership, craftsmanship, and open communication. We are looking for new colleagues who bring innovative ways of thinking and problem solving, and who want risks to be part of the team that changes the world’s financial markets.

Here are some of the benefits of working at BitGo:

• Competitive salary
• IT equipment support for work
• Meal and commute allowance
• Medical Insurance
• Attractive Well-being allowance (comprised of medical, wellness and fitness aspects)
• Snacks: on-the-house in the Bangalore office
• Great/Talented workforce to learn and grow with

Cryptocurrencies are the most disruptive change the financial services industry has seen in years. Join us and you'll be able to look back and say you were part of the team that transformed investing.

Note: This role requires working onsite (Monday to Friday) at the Bangalore office.