The Senior Corporate Executive Recruiter is a high‑impact, strategic talent advisor responsible for leading end‑to‑end recruitment for C‑suite, board‑level, and senior executive roles. This role partners closely with executive leadership, HR, and governance stakeholders to deliver best‑in‑class executive hiring outcomes while ensuring confidentiality, rigor, and alignment with long‑term business strategy.
Responsibilities:
- Lead full‑cycle recruitment for C‑suite, EVP, SVP, and other enterprise‑critical leadership roles, ensuring discretion, integrity, and alignment with corporate governance standards.
- Partner directly with CEOs, Presidents, Board members, and executive leadership teams to understand business strategy, leadership gaps, succession planning needs, and future capability requirements.
- Facilitate high‑caliber executive intake sessions to define success profiles, leadership competencies, cultural fit, and impact expectations for senior leadership roles.
- Design and execute bespoke executive sourcing strategies, including market mapping, competitive intelligence, and proactive identification of passive executive talent.
- Provide executive stakeholders with data‑driven insights on leadership market trends, compensation benchmarks, organizational design, and talent availability.
- Act as a trusted advisor on executive hiring best practices, inclusive leadership representation, confidentiality considerations, and risk mitigation.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for executive candidates, delivering a white‑glove, highly professional candidate experience from initial outreach through onboarding.
- Confidently represent the company’s executive value proposition, organizational vision, governance structure, and leadership expectations to senior‑level candidates.
- Manage highly sensitive searches with discretion, ensuring confidentiality for both internal stakeholders and external executive candidates.
- Lead executive‑level candidate assessment processes, including structured interviews, leadership competency evaluations, and executive debriefs.
- Guide executive panels through objective decision‑making, ensuring alignment with leadership frameworks, diversity goals, and succession strategies.
- Lead and manage executive offer negotiations, including compensation design, equity considerations, incentives, severance, and executive contract terms in partnership with HR and leadership.
- Partner closely with HR leadership, Legal, Compensation, and Governance teams to ensure executive hiring aligns with internal equity, compliance, and regulatory requirements.
- Contribute to board‑ready talent materials, succession planning insights, and leadership pipeline reporting as required.
- Mentor and guide recruiters supporting leadership hiring, executive mapping, and senior stakeholder engagement.
- Drive continuous improvement in executive recruitment processes, assessment rigor, and stakeholder experience.
- Champion ethical hiring, inclusive leadership representation, and enterprise‑wide talent excellence at the most senior levels of the organization.
- SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role and must be adhered to where applicable.