Team Lead, Sales Recruiter

BUILD A SAFER WORLD. TRM Labs provides AI-powered intelligence solutions that help public and private sector agencies investigate and disrupt crime. TRM's platforms enable investigators to trace illicit activity, build cases, and construct operating pictures of threat networks. Leading agencies and businesses worldwide rely on TRM to make the world safer and more secure. "At TRM, we believe the people we hire will determine how far and how fast we can go in our mission to build a safer world for billions of people. That’s why we’re building a Talent team that sees recruiting as a craft and a competitive advantage, people who challenge assumptions, move with urgency, and are energized by building exceptional teams to solve incredibly hard problems. If that sounds like you, we’d love to meet you." – Alicia Strait https://www.linkedin.com/in/alicias11/, VP of Talent, TRM Labs   The people who build TRM’s Sales organization determine how far and how fast our mission travels. Every hire shapes the markets we win-from public sector and defense to financial institutions and crypto—and how effectively our blockchain intelligence reaches the front lines of financial crime. As the Team Lead, Sales Recruiter, you’ll own TRM’s most critical searches across Sales and Go-to-Market while serving as a mentor and force multiplier for the recruiting pod. You’ll manage your own requisitions, but your impact will extend beyond your desk through team initiatives, stronger operating rhythms, shared best practices, and day-to-day peer leadership. You’ll help the team operate as a cohesive, high-performing unit while prioritization, calibration, problem-solving, and execution. Your success will be measured by the quality, velocity, and business impact of your hires—as well as your ability to mentor teammates and elevate the performance of the broader Sales recruiting pod. How this role differs from a Senior or Staff Recruiter: You’ll own not only your searches, but also the operating rhythm, unblocking, experimentation, and outcomes of the broader sales recruiting pod. You’ll set the standard for exceptional partnership with executive stakeholders and model excellence for the team. The impact you'll have: Leading the pod: - Run executive level Sales hiring syncs, driving the cadence, priorities, and follow-through for the team and its hiring managers. - Represent the Sales pod in headcount and workforce-planning discussions with Talent leadership, bringing the on-the-ground view from being closest to the department leads. - Bubble up what's happening across the Sales recruiting team — risks, wins, market signals, and blockers — so the manager and VP stay informed. - Drive solutioning and experimentation with the team, testing new sourcing angles, processes, and ideas and unblocking searches when they stall. - Help the team execute on retros and decision docs, turning what you learn into durable improvements. - Shape and roll out new processes and changes to the pod: when the team adopts a new way of working, much of it comes from you. Owning your own searches: - Own full-cycle recruiting for Director+ Sales leadership searches across TRM's global Sales organization. - Act as a strategic talent partner to executive stakeholders; advising on market dynamics, candidate calibration, hiring strategy, and close approach. - Build and execute targeted sourcing strategies that identify, engage, and close exceptional Sales talent from high-growth technology, fintech, crypto, public sector, and financial services environments. - Develop deep market maps for priority searches that include competitive talent, high-performing corporate functions, and referral-driven networks. - Create an exceptional candidate experience for senior