Senior Executive Recruiter

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

📋 Description

• Oversee intricate senior leadership recruitment for Shield AI's Hivemind Autonomous Software division.

• Manage the complete executive search process from initial intake and market analysis to candidate evaluation, offer negotiation, and finalization.

• Collaborate with senior leaders to establish role specifications, success criteria, evaluation standards, search methodologies, and hiring timelines.

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

• Create focused executive talent pipelines for current and future leadership hiring requirements.

• Provide guidance to senior leaders, hiring managers, and People Experience Business Partners regarding talent availability, market trends, compensation expectations, and competitive positioning.

• Set up communication and reporting rhythms to ensure stakeholder alignment and accountability.

• Perform executive assessments that evaluate technical proficiency, leadership skills, business impact, and alignment with mission and values.

• Utilize structured interviews, competency frameworks, and assessment tools effectively.

• Present candidate evaluations and assist in candidate calibration and selection processes.

• Develop expertise in the executive talent market and collaborate with Global Talent Sourcing for market mapping and competitive analysis.

• Offer insights on talent availability, organizational structures, compensation trends, and competitive hiring practices.

• Maintain candidate and pipeline data in applicant tracking and recruiting systems.

• Monitor and report on pipeline, conversion rates, search velocity, and hiring outcome metrics.

• Enhance recruiting efficiency, assessment quality, stakeholder satisfaction, and candidate experience.

• Incorporate AI and automation into research, market mapping, sourcing, intake preparation, candidate engagement, interview preparation, and recruiting analytics.

• Test emerging AI tools and disseminate successful practices within Talent Acquisition.

• Collaborate with Talent Sourcing, Recruiting Operations, Total Rewards, People Experience, and business stakeholders.

• Share market intelligence, candidate insights, and best practices in executive search.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant professional experience.

• Minimum of 8 years of progressive executive recruiting or search experience, with a demonstrated ability to independently manage complex senior leadership searches.

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

• Experience recruiting senior technical leaders within aerospace, defense, artificial intelligence, autonomy, software engineering, or comparable technology sectors.

• Capability to translate intricate technical requirements into effective recruiting and sourcing strategies across specialized software engineering fields.

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

• Ability to build trust, offer advice, and influence high-level hiring stakeholders.

• Excellent business acumen, executive presence, communication, negotiation, and relationship management abilities.

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

• Capacity to manage multiple complex searches simultaneously while ensuring quality, execution, and candidate experience.

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

• Preferred: experience in recruiting executives for high-growth, mission-driven technology organizations.

• Preferred: familiarity with executive compensation, equity programs, and complex offer negotiations.

• Preferred: experience working in global or matrixed organizations.

• Preferred: ability to create diverse executive talent pipelines and support equitable hiring practices.

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

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

• Preferred: ability to bring structure to uncertainty and excel in fast-paced, evolving environments.

• Must be authorized to work in the United States.

• Must be capable of contributing in support of the U.S. military and allied forces.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus.

• Benefits.

• Equity.

• Temporary benefits package applicable after 60 days of employment for temporary employees.

• Full-time regular employee offer package includes pay within the listed range, bonus, benefits, and equity.

• Equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer.

• Reasonable accommodations available for disabilities or special needs.