Talent Acquisition Specialist

ABOUT RAVEN

Raven is a proprietary crypto market-making and high-frequency trading firm. We trade spot, perpetuals, and prediction markets with dedicated low-latency infrastructure across eight major trading regions.

We hire competitive individuals and natural problem solvers with a record of ranking at something hard, whether competitive programming, games, or mathematics, who treat an unfamiliar problem as a challenge rather than an obstacle. We can teach markets; we cannot teach drive.

We build our own stack end to end, from connectivity and pricing through execution, monitoring, and research data.

THE ROLE

We're looking for a Talent Acquisition Specialist who can own full-cycle hiring, build pipelines proactively, and help us scale with exceptional people across engineering, trading, and operations.

WHAT YOU'LL OWN

Own full-cycle recruiting, from intake through sourcing, screening, interviews, offer, and close

Partner with hiring managers to define role requirements

Build strong talent pipelines for priority roles, most of which are senior and technical

Proactively source passive candidates across Europe

Run first-stage screens, assessing skills, motivation, and culture fit

Coordinate and drive the interview process

Support offer preparation, negotiation, and closing top candidates

Represent Raven at events and in communities

Track and improve hiring metrics

Continuously improve recruiting workflows, templates, and hiring playbooks

Build and maintain Raven's employer brand in target markets

WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Qualifications

2+ years experience in recruiting or talent acquisition

Strong sourcing skills

Experience hiring senior technical profiles

Comfortable reaching out and building relationships across Europe

Organised, data-driven, high ownership mindset

Nice to have

Experience in crypto, HFT, fintech, or Web3 hiring

Familiarity with the Rust or systems programming community

Let's meet, if you...

Want full responsibility and ownership of your work from day one

Are excited to join a highly skilled, driven team

Thrive in a fast-moving environment with no bureaucracy

Want to win the candidate, not just fill the pipeline

Are genuinely curious about what makes people tick

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Life at Raven

We're an ambitious team building the future of algorithmic trading. You'll work closely with sharp engineers and traders who care deeply about the quality of their work, the systems they build, and the people they build them with.

We move fast, we think rigorously, and we take the time to do things right. If you're excited by hard problems, motivated by ownership, and want to help shape how we hire, we'd like to hear from you. Our teams are based in Sofia and Milan, and this role is based in one of those offices.

LOGISTICS

- Sofia (Bulgaria) or Milan (Italy), with no preference between them. Whichever city the right person is in

- In office, not remote

- Crypto trades around the clock. You will share a sane on-call rotation with the team that owns these systems