Crypto recruiter: 12 talent and people leads at 12 teams

NAUT tracks 12 crypto recruiter and people-lead contacts at 12 live crypto project teams, read from its database on 14 November 2026: 5 hold a talent or recruiting title, 2 are head of people and 5 are a chief people or HR officer. To find the recruiter or head of talent at a crypto company, search those titles on NAUT's People tab, open the team's company page, then write on LinkedIn, where all 12 have a profile on file and 2 also have Telegram.

Data note. Every count comes from NAUT's own database, read-only, on 14 November 2026. A title search for recruiting, talent, head of people, chief people and HR titles at live project rows found 23 contacts at 23 organisations. 11 stay out, each for its own reason. 5 have no NAUT person page of their own, so a reader has no page to open: the HR or people contacts at DATA Network, Kelp DAO, Orderly Network, SingularityNET and VeChain. 1 sits at Macrocosmos AI, which has no NAUT company page. 1, at Felix Pago, works at a team whose NAUT description is about sending money over WhatsApp and names no crypto product. 1, at Easy Crypto (acq. by Swyftx), sits at a row NAUT names as acquired, so the seat may have moved. 1, at Gamic, splits the seat with finance (Head of Finance and Human Resources). 1, at RedotPay, is an HR business partner, a role below the head of the function. 1, at My Lovely Planet, holds Growth, Partnerships and Recruitment, a growth seat, with no channel on file. That leaves 12 contacts at 12 teams. 7 company descriptions were put to outside sources, 5 of them for teams on this list, and 3 of those 5 (Avalanche, Ondo Finance and Phantom) were confirmed with a quote found on the team's own page or a named source. No person's title was checked outside NAUT, so every title below is NAUT's record.

How do you find a crypto recruiter in 3 steps?

How do you find the recruiter at a crypto company? Search the titles, open the team, then write on LinkedIn. The talent lead owns who joins, so this is the seat to reach when you sell recruiting, payroll or hiring tools, when a founder needs to fill a BD or engineering seat at a partner, or when an investor wants to help a portfolio team hire.

Step 1: search more than 1 title on the People tab

The hiring seat goes by many names, and 1 search misses most of them. Of the 12, 5 carry a talent or recruiting title: Head of Talent at LayerZero, Head of Talent Acquisition at Bitquery_io, Head of Talent & VP, Human Resources at Animoca Brands, Staff Recruiting Lead at Avalanche and Talent Lead at Ondo Finance. 2 are head of people, at Phantom and Soter. 5 are a chief people or HR officer, at HashKey Group, Ink Kraken L2, =Nil; Foundation, Obol Network and Ubyx.

Step 2: open the company page

The company page shows the team NAUT holds, and the person page shows the title and which channels are on file. Worked example: Ondo Finance, whose own site says "Built for institutional investors, OUSG offers exposure to short-term US Treasuries with 24/7 instant mints and redemptions." Its NAUT team includes Josh Craven, Talent Lead, with LinkedIn and Telegram on file. A talent lead at a team selling to institutions is the person who knows which seats are open and which agencies or tools the team already uses, so a recruiting vendor or a candidate can start there.

Step 3: write on LinkedIn, with 1 note

LinkedIn carries this seat: all 12 have it on file, and 10 of the 12 have LinkedIn alone. Telegram is on file for 2, Reggie Panis at Avalanche and Josh Craven at Ondo Finance. Send 1 note on 1 channel, and name the seat or service in the first line.

Which crypto recruiter and talent leads does NAUT list?

The table lists all 12 by team name, A to Z, with the title on their NAUT page. Channels on file are listed above: LinkedIn for all 12, Telegram for 2. Every team has 1 contact in the list.

Team	Contact	Title on NAUT
Animoca Brands	JLJudy Lee	Head of Talent & VP, Human Resources
Avalanche	Reggie Panis	Staff Recruiting Lead
Bitquery_io	Rashid Tazitdinov	Head of Talent Acquisition
HashKey Group	RLRain Long	Chief Human Resources & Administrative Officer
Ink Kraken L2	Pranesh Anthapur	Chief People Officer
LayerZero	RDRichard Dietrich	Head of Talent
=Nil; Foundation	Elena Logutova	Chief Human Resources Officer
Obol Network	Nanni Sackmann	Chief People Officer
Ondo Finance	Josh Craven	Talent Lead
Phantom	Kirsten Lovely	Head of People
Soter	VWVanessa Warlow	Global Head of People
Ubyx	EAElsie Akinsanya	Chief People Officer

Every title is current on NAUT's record. Anyone listed can ask NAUT to remove their page at https://naut.so/legal/data-deletion.

What some of these teams do, from the outside check and NAUT's own descriptions:

• Avalanche "is a public blockchain and smart-contract platform launched in September 2020 by the American company Ava Labs", in Wikipedia's words.
• Phantom is a multichain wallet; its own blog says "With Phantom, you have the best of Solana, Ethereum, and Bitcoin all in one place."
• Ondo Finance offers OUSG, short-term US Treasury exposure for institutional investors.
• Obol Network builds distributed validator technology for Ethereum, and Ink Kraken L2 and =Nil; Foundation are Ethereum L2s, per their NAUT descriptions.
• Ubyx is a payment clearing system based on stablecoins, and Bitquery_io sells a blockchain data API, per NAUT.

Which channel reaches a crypto head of talent?

LinkedIn, in NAUT's data on 14 November 2026: all 12 talent and people leads have LinkedIn on file, and 2 of the 12 have Telegram.

• For a recruiting or hiring-tool pitch, the 5 talent and recruiting titles at Animoca Brands, Avalanche, Bitquery_io, LayerZero and Ondo Finance run the hiring itself.
• For payroll, benefits or an employer-of-record service, the 7 crypto head of people and chief people or HR titles own the policy and the budget.
• Web3 talent acquisition titles vary by team size, so read the full title before you write: a Staff Recruiting Lead and a Chief People Officer sit at different levels.

What this tells a founder or an investor

• A founder raising can use the same 3 steps to find the talent lead at a partner team and ask who they hire for BD, which shows where the team is growing.
• An investor sourcing can reach the people lead at a portfolio team to offer intros to candidates.
• A recruiting agency should start with the 5 talent and recruiting titles, since those people choose the agencies.

Related reading on NAUT: How to find decision makers in a company: 5 steps for crypto and Find crypto founder LinkedIn pages: 3 steps, 3,815 on file.

Can you pull this data through the NAUT API?

Yes: GET https://api.naut.so/v1/people?q=head+of+talent&limit=100 with the header Authorization: Bearer $NAUT_KEY returns people whose name, handle or title matches, each with jobTitle, company and the flags hasLinkedin and hasTelegram, for 5 credits a call; run it again with q=chief+people+officer and q=recruiting. To read 1 team, such as Ondo Finance, call GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/ondo-finance; the docs are at https://naut.so/docs/api and plans start at $49 a month on https://naut.so/pricing. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so start a 7-day trial to reach the talent leads above.

Crypto recruiter FAQ

How many crypto recruiter and talent leads does NAUT list?

NAUT lists 12 talent and people leads at 12 live crypto project teams with a public person page, read on 14 November 2026: 5 talent or recruiting titles, 2 heads of people and 5 chief people or HR officers.

Where can I find the recruiter at a crypto company, and their contact channels?

On NAUT: search head of talent, recruiting, head of people and chief people officer on the People tab, or call GET https://api.naut.so/v1/people?q=head+of+talent, and each person page shows which channels NAUT has on file for the 12 talent leads read on 14 November 2026. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so start a 7-day trial.

Which channel works best for a crypto head of talent?

In NAUT's data on 14 November 2026, all 12 crypto talent and people leads have LinkedIn on file and 2 have Telegram: Reggie Panis at Avalanche and Josh Craven at Ondo Finance.

Which crypto teams have a head of talent on NAUT?

On 14 November 2026, NAUT listed a talent or recruiting title with a public person page at Animoca Brands, Avalanche, Bitquery_io, LayerZero and Ondo Finance, 5 teams, plus a head of people at Phantom and Soter.

Sources

• NAUT database, read-only, 14 November 2026: contact titles, team pages and channel flags.
• ondo.finance, for Ondo Finance.
• Phantom's Bitcoin post, for Phantom.
• Wikipedia on Avalanche, for Avalanche.