--- title: 'Senior Associate, Recruiting at Talos' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-associate-recruiting-talos-new-york-nt7cag93ap9c' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-08' --- # Senior Associate, Recruiting at Talos - **Company:** Talos - **Location:** New York, NY - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-08-06 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/talos-trading/827ce474-38b6-4640-b3cc-58528e54aac6 ## Job description ## TALOS: INSTITUTIONAL FABRIC FOR DIGITAL ASSET MARKETS Founded in 2018, Talos provides institutional-grade trading technology for the global digital asset market, powering many of the major players in the crypto ecosystem. Our mission is clear: to advance the mass adoption of digital assets by seamlessly connecting institutions to the digital asset ecosystem. We are committed to building the most innovative and trusted platform in the world, supporting the entire trading lifecycle. At Talos, you’ll find an environment that champions kindness and respect, values diverse perspectives, and upholds inclusivity at every turn. We believe every member of our team brings invaluable insights and abilities that drive Talos forward. In our pursuit of excellence, we foster a culture of trust, integrity, collaboration, and mutual growth. We are a tight-knit yet globally distributed team of highly experienced engineers and business leaders, with hubs in New York, London, Singapore, and Cyprus. You’ll be part of a hybrid-friendly environment where your unique talents and insights will play a crucial role in building something extraordinary. ## WE'RE HIRING: SENIOR ASSOCIATE, RECRUITING We are looking for a Senior Associate, Recruiting to own hiring across our Revenue & Operations organizations. In this role, you will manage the full recruiting lifecycle for a broad and varied set of business-critical roles — spanning sales, account management, marketing, finance, and business operations — partnering directly with hiring managers and senior leaders across the business. You will report to our Head of Talent Acquisition and work closely with our Co-Founders and leadership team to translate business priorities into hiring plans that keep pace with Talos’s growth. This role is highly focused on sourcing, relationship building, and execution. We have an established Recruiting Operations (RecOps) function in place to enable our recruiters who handle scheduling, coordination, and administrative tasks. This allows you to dedicate your time to engaging with the strongest talent in the market and driving high-quality outcomes across a fast-moving, cross-functional pipeline of open roles. ## Responsibilities - Own end-to-end recruiting for roles across Talos’s Revenue & Operations organizations, partnering with hiring managers to define role scope, hiring strategy, and candidate profile. - Source, engage, and close candidates across a wide range of commercial and operational functions, adapting your approach to each function’s market and talent pool. - Develop and execute creative sourcing strategies to build strong, diverse pipelines of passive and active talent. - Drive the full recruitment lifecycle within Ashby, while leveraging RecOps support for scheduling and administrative needs. - Act as a trusted advisor to hiring managers and senior stakeholders, providing guidance on market dynamics, compensation benchmarking, and hiring best practices. - Ensure an exceptional, high-touch candidate experience that reflects Talos’s standards from first touch through offer. - Use data and reporting in Ashby to track pipeline health, forecast time-to-fill, and share hiring insights with leadership. - Continuously improve recruiting processes and playbooks as the Revenue & Operations orgs scale. ## Qualifications & Attributes - 3–5 years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally including both agency and in-house recruiting across commercial or business operations functions. - Demonstrated ability to source and close candidates across a diverse set of roles simultaneously, in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. - Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build credibility and influence with hiring managers and senior leaders. - ATS Proficiency: Familiarity with an Applicant Tracking System is required; experience with Ashby is a significant advantage. - Baseline understanding of capital markets, fintech, or digital assets is preferred but not essential. - Attributes: Detail-oriented, adaptable, proactive, and professional, with strong ownership over your requisitions. - Education: Bachelor’s degree preferred but not required. ## BENEFITS You will also enjoy a comprehensive array of competitive benefits, regardless of your location, within our warm, welcoming, and ambitious company culture. Our offerings include a monthly wellness credit for personal use, such as gym memberships, massages, or even a ski pass for your next holiday. Additionally, we provide paid lunches in the office, monthly fitness and evening socials to foster connections with colleagues, and annual offsite events to engage with the wider team. In New York City, the annual base compensation range is $120,000 - $150,000. This position is eligible for discretionary bonus. GET IN TOUCH! Sounds compelling? We’d love to hear from you. Contact us directly careers@talos.com. Also, check out other open positions https://talos.com/company/#join-the-team listed on our website. Talos is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer.  We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.  Talos is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process.  If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at careers@talos.com. To protect the interests of all parties, Talos Trading, LLC and its affiliates (“Talos”) strongly discourage submission of unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate. Talos will NOT pay fees, commissions or compensation of any kind (“Fees”) for any placement or hire resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. Talos will consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume to have been referred by the Agency free of any charges or fees and Talos reserves the right to contact, interview, and hire the candidate directly. Agencies, search firms, recruitment firms and similar organizations (“Agencies”) must obtain advance written approval from Talos’s internal recruiting team to submit resumes, AND must sign a valid fully executed placement agreement with Talos in order to be eligible to receive any Fees from Talos. Talos will not pay a Fee to any Agency that does not have such agreement in place.  By submitting a resume without a signed agreement, you acknowledge and accept these terms. © Talos Trading, careers@talos.com By submitting your application and pursuing job candidacy, you consent to the processing of your personal information in connection with our Applicant & Employee Privacy Notice https://www.talos.com/legals/employee-privacy-policy. ## About Talos ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Talos provides an institutional-grade digital asset trading platform that covers the full trade lifecycle—from price discovery and execution to settlement—for asset managers, hedge funds, neobanks, and other financial institutions. - **Entity Type**: Private (funding rounds not disclosed in available sources) - **Headquarters**: New York, USA (with offices in London, Singapore, and Cyprus) - **Founded**: Not publicly available - **Founders**: Not publicly available ## Core Business - Primary industry: Digital asset trading infrastructure / Financial technology - Target customers: Institutional investors (B2B) including asset managers, ETF issuers, RIAs, systematic hedge funds, neobanks, and prime brokers - Mission: “Reshaping an industry needs a team at their best” – the company is built to bring the best institutional-grade technology to digital asset trading, combining traditional finance best practices with crypto-native design. ## Products & Services - **Trading Platform**: A low-latency, high-throughput platform supporting multi-dealer RFQ, execution algorithms, smart order routing, and connectivity via FIX, REST, or WebSocket. Handles spot, perpetuals, futures, and options across ~60 venues. - **Portfolio & Risk Management**: Real-time, unified view of multi-asset portfolios across all trading instruments, with P&L tracking, risk analytics, and robust permissioning. - **Post-Trade Analytics**: Advanced TCA, custom trade analytics, and real-time & historical market data aggregated for 8,630 symbols. - **White Label Solution**: Allows institutions to offer crypto trading to their own customers via Talos APIs or a custom-branded GUI, connecting them to multiple liquidity providers. - **Treasury & Settlement**: Single-point solution to manage credit risk, working capital, and settlement, integrating with existing OMSs/PMSs. - **Portfolio Construction**: Systematic investment applications that enable asset managers and ETF issuers to build and manage customized portfolios at scale. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Over $850 billion in volume has been processed through the Talos platform since inception (as of end Q1 2026) [talos.com](https://www.talos.com/). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not explicitly listed in provided sources; the platform integrates with ~110 providers including prime brokers, exchanges, OTC desks, and lenders. Clients include well-known global financial institutions. - **Growth Signals**: - Named one of Forbes’ America’s Best Startup Employers in both 2023 and 2024 [talos.com](https://www.talos.com/working/life-at-talos). - Won “Pricing and Analytics – Digital Assets” at the Risk.net Markets Technology Awards 2026 [talos.com](https://www.talos.com/). - Serves clients in 38 countries. - SOC 2 Type 2 compliant (per third-party audit). ## Competitive Advantages - **Institutional DNA**: Built by experts from the highest performing trading systems, designed specifically for the unique challenges of digital assets rather than retrofitting legacy infrastructure. - **End-to-End Coverage**: Single platform covering the entire trade lifecycle—from portfolio construction to settlement—reducing complexity for clients. - **Deep Connectivity**: Access to ~60 venues and 110 providers, with 8,630 symbol coverage, making it a central hub for digital asset trading. - **Trust & Reliability**: Isolated and encrypted client environments, 24/7 white-glove support with direct communication lines, DR/failover capabilities, and SOC 2 compliance. ## Strategic Focus - Continue expanding the Talos Network to onboard more liquidity providers and venues. - Strengthen white-label offerings to enable new entrants (e.g., neobanks, fintechs) to offer crypto trading. - Maintain a product-led approach, with engineers involved in market research and full development-to-release lifecycle to keep pace with the dynamic digital assets market. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Described as a supportive, go-the-extra-mile environment where employees work “at the intersection of creativity & analysis.” Engineers are deeply involved in product decisions and market research. - **Policy**: Remote and flexible working; global offsites and team outings for collaboration and socializing. Offices in New York, London, Singapore, and Cyprus. - **Benefits**: Competitive salary, pension, bonus, and stock ownership plan; comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, vision, flexible spending); unlimited vacation policy; paid parental leave; wellness incentives. - **Recognition**: Twice named a Forbes Best Startup Employer in America, signaling strong internal reputation. ## Sources 1. [talos.com](https://www.talos.com/) – Company overview, products, platform stats 2. [talos.com](https://www.talos.com/working/life-at-talos) – Culture, benefits, Forbes award 3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Talos-Trading) – Careers page (open roles) 4. [talos.com](https://www.talos.com/working/open-roles) – Open roles and application process 5. 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