Hire, scale, and grow on Avalanche

snowball /ˈsnəʊbɔːl/ verb

to rapidly grow, increase, or accumulate in size, intensity, or importance.

Ava Labs talent acquisition

The Talent Acquisition team at Ava Labs built Snowball Talent to extend the same recruiting infrastructure, frameworks, and domain expertise that powers Ava Labs' own growth directly to the partners and builders shaping the Avalanche ecosystem. We know the candidates, we know the roles, and we know how technically complex this hiring landscape is. Snowball Talent is how we share that edge.

Service 01

Snowball Talent Enablement

A discretionary ecosystem enablement initiative and retained talent enablement service delivered by Ava Labs' People and Recruiting leadership. Grounded in Ava Labs' own internal operating model, the goal is simple: improve recruitment maturity, effectiveness, and capability across partner companies, before hiring becomes a bottleneck to growth.

What's included

Strategic enablement time with Ava Labs' Director of Recruiting
Frameworks for workforce planning, hiring velocity, and process design
Playbooks, templates, and enablement materials developed in-house
Access to Ava Labs' talent community across blockchain, infrastructure, cryptography, and protocol engineering

Types of support

Structuring or improving interview processes and feedback systems
Designing sourcing strategies for hard-to-fill technical roles
Recruitment tooling advisory (Greenhouse, Gem, Ashby, etc.)
Headcount planning and long-term TA strategy
Preparing to make your first internal recruiter hire

Typical use cases

Moving from founder-led hiring to structured recruitment
Preparing for Pre-Seed to Series A growth phase
Building evaluation practices for technically complex roles
Establishing hiring infrastructure before scaling headcount

Service 02

Snowball Recruiting

A risk-free contingency hiring solution provided exclusively for Avalanche ecosystem partners. Referrals aren't enough, agencies charge 25%+ per hire, and a single technical role can result in a $50,000+ fee. Snowball Recruiting fills this gap using Ava Labs' internal TA infrastructure to serve partner hiring directly, without a profit-first agency model.

How it works

Partner submits a high-priority role
Ava Labs' TA team conducts intake and detailed briefing
Full-cycle sourcing, screening, and candidate management delivered
Contingency model: no hire, no cost, ever

Why it's different

Deep domain expertise in blockchain protocol, cryptography, and infrastructure hiring
Access to candidates already familiar with the Avalanche ecosystem
High-signal evaluation of technical talent, not resume-matching
Transparent, consistent pricing across all roles, no surprises

When to use it

Hiring your first protocol or infrastructure engineer
Filling a critical technical leadership role post-fundraise
Scaling headcount without the overhead of an agency relationship
Avoiding high agency fees during early-stage growth

pricing · snowball recruiting

Simple. Transparent. Fair.

A discretionary ecosystem enablement initiative and retained talent enablement service delivered by Ava Labs' People and Recruiting leadership. Grounded in Ava Labs' own internal operating model, the goal is simple: improve recruitment maturity, effectiveness, and capability across partner companies, before hiring becomes a bottleneck to growth.

First year base salary

10%

A straightforward percentage of the placed candidate's first-year base salary.

Flat fee cap · whichever is lower

$15K

Maximum fee per placement, regardless of salary level. The lower figure always applies.

If no hire

$0