Responsibilities
- Own executive searches end to end across any function: intake and role scoping, market mapping, sourcing strategy, candidate engagement, process management, offer strategy, and close.
- Learn technical markets (Engineering, AI research, Product) and non-technical ones (Legal, Finance, People, corporate strategy) fast enough to advise credibly in each.
- Advise VPs, Directors, and senior hiring managers: set the hiring bar, align on profiles, and use market data to shape decisions.
- Design and run creative sourcing strategies for niche, hard-to-find senior talent, including passive candidates who aren’t looking.
- On confidential searches, keep hiring managers, HR business partners, compensation, and executive leadership aligned, with discretion.
- Give senior candidates a high-touch experience: thoughtful outreach, honest calibration, and careful handling through close.
- Bring market intelligence (talent availability, compensation expectations, org structures, competitor moves) to shape role design and hiring decisions.
- Run a focused set of senior searches at once, favoring depth over volume and using sound judgment as priorities shift.
Minimum Qualifications
- 10+ years of recruiting experience with a significant focus on Director-level and above searches, whether in-house, at an executive search firm, or both
- Experience recruiting across multiple functions and markets, not just one vertical
- Experience partnering with senior executives and influencing their hiring decisions
- Track record of closing passive senior candidates in competitive markets
- Experience owning significant scope independently on a lean, senior team
- Strong sourcing and research skills, including building a talent market from scratch for niche roles
- Experience handling confidential searches and sensitive candidate information with discretion
- Excellent written and verbal communication, from concise stakeholder updates to candidate-facing polish
- Experience working through complex offers with compensation partners, including unvested equity, sign-on structures, and level mapping
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading VP-level and above searches at a large, matrixed technology company or a top-tier retained executive search firm
- Experience recruiting AI/ML research leaders and placing leaders from AI labs, government, or regulated industries
- Experience building a market from zero for new or highly specialized roles with no obvious comparable talent pool
- Experience managing executive-sensitive and board-level searches
- Experience advising executives on org design and role scoping, beyond filling an approved role
- Comfort giving senior leaders difficult market feedback and using data to reset profile, level, or compensation expectations
- Experience structuring high-value offers with compensation teams, including equity make-whole, sign-on packages, and multi-year vesting comparisons
- Demonstrated use of AI tools to speed up recruiting work, such as market mapping, candidate research and synthesis, personalized outreach, interview note summaries, pipeline reporting, and competitive intelligence
- Experience linking AI tools into repeatable workflows that shorten search cycle time, rather than using them for one-off tasks
- Good judgment about AI output: spotting when research, summaries, or candidate matches are wrong or incomplete, and checking them before they reach a hiring manager or candidate
- Discretion about what belongs in an AI tool, handling confidential candidate and compensation data in line with data-privacy standards
- Ongoing experimentation with new AI capabilities, and interest in building reusable workflows and prompts that others can adopt
$230,000/year to $292,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
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