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# Head of talent at Uniswap Labs

- **Company:** Uniswap Labs
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $238k–$298k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-29
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/uniswap/222376e0-986e-478d-bdf5-6e01f215e5ff

## Job description

## About the role

The Uniswap Labs team is building products to unlock value through universal exchange. Our products, the Uniswap Interface, the Uniswap Mobile App and the Uniswap Extension, are powered by the Uniswap Protocol. When you join Uniswap, you become part of a team reshaping how value flows on the internet. We are looking for a Head of Talent to build and lead how Uniswap Labs finds, hires and develops great people. You will define the long-term talent strategy, lead the recruiting team, and partner with leadership to hire the engineers, designers and operators who build what comes next.

## Responsibilities

- Own Uniswap Labs' long-term talent strategy and workforce plan, working with the executive team on priorities, headcount, org design and timing
- Act as a trusted advisor to leaders on role scoping, leveling and compensation
- Set a high, consistent hiring bar and keep it as we grow
- Work with team leads on internal talent development: career paths, promotions, mobility and succession for key roles
- Help shape how we assess performance and growth
- Build, mentor, and scale the recruiting team, from in-house recruiters and coordinators
- Stay close to the work: take on key searches yourself, including senior and hard-to-fill roles
- Build proactive pipelines through sourcing, talent mapping and relationships across engineering, product, design within and beyond the industry
- Run a candidate experience that is fast, clear and respectful, from first call through offer and close
- Own recruiting operations: our ATS and tooling, interview process, interviewer training and scheduling
- Track pipeline, speed, quality and cost, and use the data to improve how we hire
- Work with other team leads on leveling, compensation, onboarding and a smooth first day for every new hire

## What we're looking for

- 10+ years of recruiting experience, including 3+ years leading recruiting teams in a fast-growing technology company
- A track record of building a recruiting function from a small team and scaling it, while staying hands-on
- Experience hiring senior engineering, product, design, and business talent in competitive markets
- Experience with long-term workforce planning, org design and talent strategy, working directly across the leadership team
- Strong judgment advising leaders on hiring strategy, role design, leveling and compensation
- Experience supporting internal talent development, such as performance, career paths and succession, alongside recruiting
- Comfort with data: you set metrics, read the pipeline and change the process when the numbers say so
- Hands-on experience with an ATS and recruiting tools, and the ability to choose and improve our stack
- A clear, direct communicator who builds trust with candidates, hiring managers and your own team
- Able to work from our SoHo, New York office

## Nice to have

- Recruiting experience at a crypto, tech or other high-bar, fast-moving company
- A network of senior engineering, product, design, and business talent in tech
- Experience leading or partnering on people work beyond recruiting, such as talent development, performance programs and succession planning
- Experience across recruiting and people operations, such as leveling, compensation design and onboarding
- Curiosity about crypto and the Uniswap ecosystem

Minimum full-time salary of $238,400-$298,000. Disclosure in accordance with New York City's Pay Transparency Law. Full Time employees at Uniswap Labs are also eligible for other compensation elements, including tokens, and benefits, dependent on the position type. Uniswap Labs' Full-Time employee benefits include company-paid medical, dental, & vision for you and your dependents, wellness offerings including a partnership with Equinox Fitness Clubs, 401(k) with 4% employer contribution, annual $1,500 education stipend, unlimited and encouraged time off, up to 16 weeks paid parental leave, home office setup stipend for remote employees and daily lunches at NY headquarters (all benefits are subject to applicable taxes and based on eligibility). Uniswap Labs is committed to diversity in our workforce and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO). We provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability (including gender dysphoria and similar gender-related conditions), sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation (including actual or perceived heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, and asexuality), veteran status, military status, domestic violence victim status, reproductive health decision making or any other protected category. In addition, Uniswap Labs participates in E-Verify. You can view the E-Verify poster [here](https://www.e-verify.gov/sites/default/files/everify/posters/EVerifyParticipationPoster.pdf) and the Right to Work poster [here](https://www.justice.gov/crt/case-document/file/1133936/dl).

## About Uniswap Labs

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Decentralized Finance (DeFi) / Cryptocurrency
- **Target customers**: B2C (retail traders, liquidity providers) and B2B (enterprise partners, developers using APIs)
- **Mission**: To create a better future for decentralized finance, enabling universal ownership and exchange without intermediaries.

## Products & Services
- **Uniswap Protocol**: The core decentralized trading protocol that uses Automated Market Makers (AMMs) to facilitate peer-to-peer swaps. Over $3 trillion in cumulative trading volume.
- **Uniswap Web App**: The primary front-end interface for accessing the protocol.
- **Uniswap Wallet**: A self-custodial mobile wallet for swapping, earning, and managing crypto assets.
- **Uniswap Trading API**: Infrastructure for developers and institutions to integrate Uniswap liquidity programmatically.
- **Unichain**: A Layer-2 blockchain built to scale DeFi and provide fast, low-cost transactions.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Over $3 trillion in cumulative trading volume processed through the Uniswap Protocol (as of 2025).
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Not explicitly listed in provided sources; however, the company is known to be backed by top crypto venture firms (common knowledge, but not cited here).
- **Growth Signals**: 105 total employees (LinkedIn); 10 active job postings as of mid-2025; monthly job posting growth of +25% (quarterly); hires from major crypto and tech companies (Coinbase, OpenSea, Consensys, Google, Amazon); expansion into Layer-2 infrastructure (Unichain).

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover & liquidity moat**: Uniswap pioneered the AMM model and remains the largest DEX by volume, creating deep liquidity that attracts traders and developers.
- **Decentralized governance**: The protocol is governed by UNI token holders, reducing platform risk and aligning incentives with the community.
- **Brand trust**: One of the most recognized names in DeFi, with a strong track record of security and uptime.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling DeFi**: Building Unichain to reduce transaction costs and latency, making DeFi accessible to a broader audience.
- **Product expansion**: Enhancing the Web App, Wallet, and API to serve both retail and institutional users.
- **Developer ecosystem**: Providing infrastructure (API, SDKs) to enable third-party applications to leverage Uniswap liquidity.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as building the future of decentralized finance with a strong emphasis on autonomy, ownership, and community. Employee Resource Communities (ERCs) and regular team on-sites foster inclusion.
- **Work environment**: Hybrid workspace (flexible remote/on-site) with HQ in New York City. Remote team members receive home office and co-working stipends.
- **Benefits**:
  - Unlimited PTO
  - 16 weeks paid parental leave
  - 401(k) with 4% employer contribution
  - Medical, dental, vision insurance (Anthem, Kaiser, Guardian, VSP)
  - Family planning & assistance (Maven with HRA)
  - Daily lunch and snacks at HQ
  - Wellness partnership with Equinox Fitness Clubs
  - Learning & development: peer-led UNIversity program, annual learning stipend, industry conference benefit
  - Competitive compensation including cash and token grants

## Sources
1. [about.uniswap.org](https://about.uniswap.org/)
2. [careers.uniswap.org](https://careers.uniswap.org/)
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/uniswap-labs)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/uniswaporg)
5. [gm.careers](https://gm.careers/blog/working-at-uniswap)

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