Senior Executive Recruiter

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee complex executive and senior leadership recruitment processes independently, from intake and position definition to market mapping, assessment, offer negotiation, and acceptance.

• Collaborate with senior leaders to outline role requirements, success profiles, assessment criteria, search strategies, and hiring milestones.

• Identify, engage, and nurture passive executive talent across aerospace and defense, AI, autonomy, robotics, software, and related technology sectors.

• Create focused executive talent pipelines.

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior business leaders, hiring managers, and People Experience Business Partners.

• Offer insights on talent availability, market dynamics, compensation expectations, and competitive positioning.

• Conduct thorough executive assessments and structured interviews.

• Provide candidate evaluations and facilitate candidate calibration and selection decisions.

• Enhance knowledge of the executive talent market and deliver market intelligence.

• Perform competitive research, talent mapping, candidate identification, and recruiting analytics.

• Keep candidate and pipeline information updated in recruiting systems.

• Monitor and report on search metrics and hiring results.

• Work alongside Talent Sourcing, Recruiting Operations, Total Rewards, People Experience, and business stakeholders.

• Incorporate AI and automation into recruiting workflows and assess emerging AI tools.

• Share best practices in executive search and contribute to team effectiveness.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant professional experience.

• Over 8 years of progressive experience in executive recruiting or search, including the independent management of complex senior leadership searches.

• Proven experience in recruiting VP+ and other senior technical executives in areas such as Autonomy, Robotics, Perception, Planning, Controls, Embedded Software, Distributed Systems, Simulation, Machine Learning, Infrastructure, or related software engineering fields.

• Experienced in recruiting senior technical leaders in aerospace, defense, artificial intelligence, autonomy, software engineering, or similar technology industries.

• Ability to convert complex technical requirements into effective recruiting and sourcing strategies.

• Strong capabilities in executive sourcing, market mapping, passive candidate engagement, and assessment.

• Skilled at building credibility, advising, and influencing senior-level hiring stakeholders.

• Proficient in applicant tracking systems, candidate relationship management platforms, and recruiting analytics tools.

• Experience utilizing structured executive assessments and competency-based interviewing techniques.

• Capacity to manage multiple complex searches simultaneously.

• Preferred: experience in recruiting executives within high-growth, mission-driven technology firms.

• Preferred: knowledge of executive compensation, equity programs, and complex offer negotiations.

• Preferred: experience working within global or matrixed organizations.

• Preferred: ability to develop diverse executive talent pipelines and promote equitable hiring practices.

• Preferred: experience collaborating with executive search firms and external research providers.

• Preferred: understanding of organizational dynamics and technical leadership structures.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Benefits

• Equity

• Temporary benefits package available after 60 days of employment (for temporary employees)

• Full-time regular employee offer package

• Background and potential reference check contingent offer process

• Equal employment opportunity and accommodation support