- 200+Placements
- 47Countries
- 95%12-mo retention
- 33,000+Network
- 98%Client CSAT
- 2021Operating since
Hire Web3 & AI Talent.
Engineers, product managers, marketers, and leaders. Tell us what you need, we deliver a vetted shortlist of 3-5 candidates in under 72 hours. See the kinds of roles we fill →
Time to shortlist
12-month retention
Upfront fees
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DeFinitive is a specialist Web3 + AI recruitment firm. 200+ placements across 47 countries since 2021. $0 until your hire starts. 3 to 5 vetted candidates in 72 hours, 60-day replacement guarantee. Engineering, product, marketing and leadership. Our dedicated AI desk launches mid-2026, on top of an AI talent network cultivated since early 2025.
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Web3 + AI Recruitment That Delivers.
We know the talent pool
500,000+ Web3 + AI professionals indexed across every function. Engineers, product, marketing, and leadership.
We source from protocol contributor networks, DAOs, hackathons, and crypto-native communities that general recruiters never reach.73% response rate vs 20-30% industry avg
We vet like you would
Every candidate passes a 3-stage pipeline:01 Technical screen02 Portfolio review03 Culture fit assessmentOnly 12% make it through. You interview the top 3-5, not 50 unqualified CVs.
All four verticals
One agency. Every hire.▸ Engineering, Solidity, Rust, auditors, protocol engineers▸ Product, PMs, designers, analysts▸ Go-to-Market, community, DevRel, growth, BD▸ Leadership, CTO, VP Eng, CPO, CMO
You pay nothing until you hire
Pure contingency model.✓ No retainers✓ No upfront fees✓ No milestone paymentsPay only when a candidate starts. Every placement includes a 60-day replacement guarantee.
Roles we fill
See current salary benchmarks for these roles.
HOW A SEARCH RUNS
Brief. Source. Vet. Close.
Four stages from your hiring brief to a signed offer. Most searches close in 4–6 weeks. Principal-led from start to finish, you work with the same person the whole way through.
Brief
Day 0
30-minute call with the principal running your search. We map role scope, comp band, must-haves vs nice-to-haves, and hiring timeline. No retainer. No upfront fee. You leave with a written search plan.
Source
Days 1–3
Principal taps their named network first, warm intros where possible. Targeted outreach to 30–60 candidates from our 500K+ Web3 + AI index. Light-touch screen for fit, interest, and comp alignment.
Vet
Days 3–7
Three-stage internal pipeline: technical screen → portfolio review → culture-fit assessment. Only 12% of sourced candidates make it through. You see the 3–5 strongest with our recommendation and risk flags, not 50 raw CVs.
Close
Weeks 2–6
We coordinate interviews and debrief after each round. Offer negotiation backed by live data from our salary benchmarks. 60-day replacement guarantee from start date. $0 invoiced until your hire’s first day.
FOUR VERTICALS
Engineering, Product, Marketing, Leadership.
Web3 + AI is a four-function hiring problem. Most agencies cover one. We run searches across all of them, with dedicated engineering specialism pages where the keyword pool justifies it, and direct briefs everywhere else.
Engineering
Production smart contracts, protocol code, infrastructure, security.
- ·Solidity Developer→
- ·Smart Contract Engineer→
- ·Rust Developer→
- ·ZK Engineer→
- ·Smart Contract Auditor
+ 10 more
Product
PMs, designers and analysts who can ship Web3 + AI products.
- ·Product Manager
- ·Product Designer
- ·UX Researcher
- ·Data Analyst
- ·Tokenomics Researcher
+ 10 more
Go-to-Market
Community, DevRel, growth and BD with crypto-native fluency.
- ·Community Manager
- ·DevRel Engineer
- ·Growth Lead
- ·Business Development
- ·Marketing Manager
+ 10 more
Leadership
Executive search for protocols, exchanges, AI-native crypto teams.
- ·Web3 CTO→
- ·VP Engineering
- ·CPO / Head of Product
- ·CMO / Head of Marketing
- ·COO
+ 10 more
Linked roles have dedicated specialism pages. AI specialists run from the AI desk. Other roles run as direct briefs, submit yours below and we'll come back with a 3-5 vetted shortlist.
RECENT MANDATES
Trusted by Web3 + AI’s Sharpest Teams.
Three of the named teams behind our 200+ placements. Backed by Paradigm, Sequoia, a16z, Polychain, and Coinbase Ventures. Principal-led searches across protocol engineering, AI × Web3 hires, and ecosystem leadership.
Celo
Mobile-first L1 → Ethereum L2
a16z · Coinbase Ventures · Polychain
Mandate
Engineering and ecosystem hires across the migration to L2.
Outcome
Principal-led search across protocol, partnerships and growth functions.
Sorella Labs
MEV-resistant DEX (Uniswap v4 hook)
Paradigm
Mandate
Smart contract and protocol engineering search at the MEV/DeFi frontier.
Outcome
Vetted shortlist of senior protocol engineers familiar with v4 hook architecture.
Kaito
AI-powered crypto intelligence
Sequoia · Dragonfly · Jane Street
Mandate
AI × Web3 engineering hires for inference, search, and on-chain data.
Outcome
Crypto-native engineers with production AI/ML experience, a search type generalist agencies cannot fill.
7 verified client testimonials live on the home page. Mandates fillable across all four verticals, brief us below.
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