Senior Leadership Recruiter
Leads executive recruiting searches for senior engineering leadership roles, partnering with executives and cross-functional teams from talent mapping through onboarding. Requires 10+ years of technology-industry executive search experience and strong sourcing, stakeholder management, and negotiation skills.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Partner with executives and senior stakeholders to hire engineering leaders for the company’s highest-priority roles.
- Define, design, and implement recruiting processes and search engagements for senior leadership positions.
- Map talent landscapes, conduct internal calibration and referral efforts, and assess external talent supply.
- Manage end-to-end executive searches from initial candidate contact through onboarding, including research, outreach, candidate experience, negotiations, HR coordination, and stakeholder communication.
- Collaborate with People Partners, Compensation, business leads, and other cross-functional partners to align hiring goals with business needs.
- Develop competency-based interviews that evaluate candidates’ capabilities, aspirations, and leadership-role fit.
- Build trust-based relationships with candidates and support final negotiations as a problem solver, facilitator, and coach.
- Use recruiting systems and tools to capture market, client, and candidate information for search execution and market intelligence.
- Contribute creative ideas and continuous improvements to recruiting processes.
Requirements
- 10+ years of executive search experience in the technology industry.
- Experience identifying, engaging, and closing senior-level passive candidates.
- Outstanding sourcing skills and creative talent-identification approaches.
- Experience partnering with hiring teams and executives.
- Experience using talent-market insights and data to influence leadership and cross-functional decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to build effective relationships with leaders and cross-functional partners.
- Track record of creating and maintaining positive candidate experiences.
- Ability to distill complex information into organized, consumable content with strong attention to tone and structure.
- Ability to take ownership and effectively manage time and recruiting processes.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience working in both executive search firms and in-house recruiting.
Skills
Executive Search, Talent Sourcing, Candidate Assessment, Passive Candidate Recruiting, Talent Market Insights, Competency-Based Interviews, Stakeholder Management, Candidate Experience, Recruiting Systems, Negotiation
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