Senior Executive Recruiter – G&A

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

📋 Description

• Effectively oversee intricate executive and senior leadership recruitment processes from the initial intake and position definition through to market analysis, candidate assessment, offer negotiation, and acceptance.

• Collaborate with senior leadership to outline role specifications, success profiles, evaluation criteria, search strategies, and hiring timelines.

• Discover, engage, and foster relationships with top-tier passive executive talent across industries such as aerospace and defense, AI, autonomy, software, enterprise technology, and other relevant sectors.

• Create focused executive talent pipelines to address both immediate and future leadership hiring requirements.

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

• Ensure consistent communication and reporting with stakeholders.

• Shape hiring decisions through market intelligence, candidate insights, and data-driven recommendations.

• Perform thorough executive assessments and present candidate evaluations.

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

• Collaborate with interview teams on candidate calibration and selection processes.

• Enhance knowledge of the executive talent market and conduct competitive research and talent mapping.

• Utilize recruiting technology, research tools, analytics, AI, and automation to boost search efficacy.

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

• Monitor and report on search metrics, including pipeline health, candidate conversion rates, search speed, and hiring results.

• Work together with Talent Sourcing, Recruiting Operations, Total Rewards, PX, and business stakeholders.

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

• Report directly to the Head of Executive Search.

• Independently manage searches within Shield AI's Hivemind Autonomous Software division.

⛳️ Requirements

• A bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant professional experience.

• Over 8 years of progressive executive recruiting or search experience, with a focus on independently managing complex senior leadership searches.

• Experience in recruiting VP-level and above executives across various G&A functions, including Sales, Marketing & Communications, Finance & Accounting, Legal, People Experience, Strategy, Operations, and other corporate roles.

• Proven experience in recruiting senior leaders within the aerospace, defense, artificial intelligence, autonomy, or similar technology sectors.

• Strong abilities in executive sourcing, market mapping, engaging passive candidates, and conducting assessments.

• Capacity to establish credibility, provide advice, and influence senior-level hiring stakeholders.

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

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

• Ability to handle multiple complex searches simultaneously while upholding high standards of quality, execution, and candidate experience.

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

• All job offers are contingent upon a cleared background and potential reference checks.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus.

• Comprehensive benefits package.

• Equity opportunities.

• Temporary benefits package provided after 60 days of employment.

• Commitment to equal employment opportunity and affirmative action in the workplace.

• Accommodations for disability or special needs.