Talent Connect Protocol

Talent Connect Protocol (TCP) is a boutique technical recruiting firm partnering with VC-backed startups and privately held companies to hire exceptional software engineering and technical talent. We work with companies from pre-seed through Series C across AI, robotics, healthcare, manufacturing, energy, and enterprise software.

TCP was bootstrapped from the ground up with a simple belief: recruiting should be a true partnership, not a numbers game. Since day one, we've focused on building strong relationships, doing great work, and becoming a trusted recruiting partner to the companies we work with.

We're now looking for a Senior Technical Recruiter to join the team and help us continue scaling.

This person will take on some of TCP's most challenging and senior-level searches, working closely with our top clients to hire the engineers and technical leaders who are hardest to find. You'll work directly with founders, CTOs, and engineering leaders, own your searches from kickoff through close, and have the freedom to develop your own recruiting style.

We're a small team with a high level of autonomy, which means you'll have a meaningful impact on your clients, candidates, and how we continue to build TCP.

What You'll Do

• Own some of TCP's most challenging searches, with a focus on senior, staff, principal, and technical leadership-level engineering talent
• Work closely with our top clients and partner directly with founders, CTOs, and engineering leaders on critical hires for their teams
• Own the full recruiting lifecycle from search strategy and sourcing through candidate management, offer, and close
• Build genuine, long-term relationships with clients and candidates rather than treating recruiting as a transactional numbers game
• Take ownership of your desk while helping shape how TCP recruits, operates, and grows

What We're Looking For

• 3+ years of technical recruiting experience, ideally within an agency or search environment, with a strong track record of delivering on difficult technical searches
• Strong experience recruiting senior, staff, principal, and technical leadership-level engineering talent
• Ability to creatively identify, engage, and close highly sought-after candidates who aren't actively looking
• Ambitious, relationship-driven, self-motivated, and confident owning relationships with high-priority clients
• An entrepreneurial mindset and genuine interest in helping build a growing company not just filling another recruiting desk

Why TCP

• Freedom + autonomy: We care about results, relationships, and doing great work not where you sit, how many hours you're online, or hitting arbitrary activity KPIs
• Uncapped earning potential: Competitive base salary + tiered quarterly commission structure. The more you bill, the higher your commission rate and the more you earn
• Unlimited PTO
• Health + dental + vision insurance
• Remote flexibility: Work remotely, with a preference for candidates based in Austin
• Small-team impact: You'll have a real voice in how we build and grow TCP

Location: Remote | Austin, TX preferred

Compensation: Base Salary + Tiered Quarterly Commission (uncapped) + Health, Dental & Vision + Unlimited PTO

If you're an experienced technical recruiter who loves the relationship-building and earning potential of agency recruiting but wants more freedom, more ownership, and less of the traditional agency grind, we'd love to hear from you.