Senior Leadership Recruiter
- Your empathy and insight into human motivations help you build deep trust with candidates and executives.
- You are skilled at crafting a positive candidate experience and aligning hiring goals with business needs.
- Your strategic vision enables you to understand complex leadership needs and map talent effectively.
- You naturally seek improvement and can contribute valuable ideas to the team.
- You may find the high-pressure, results-driven environment emotionally draining over time.
- Your perfectionism might slow down the pace of searches, causing frustration for hiring managers.
- You might struggle with direct negotiations and tough conversations, like discussing compensation.
- You may prioritize harmony over necessary conflict, potentially delaying decisive actions.
Who we are
About Stripe
Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Businesses of all sizes—from new startups to public companies like Amazon and Salesforce—use our software to accept online payments and run technically sophisticated financial operations in more than 100 countries. By helping businesses accept payments from anywhere in the world and accelerating the economic shift from offline to online, we aim to increase the GDP of the internet.
About the team
Stripe’s Leadership Recruiting Team (LRT) is a high-performing group of strategic and creative problem solvers. We are passionate about finding and hiring the very best leaders and experts from around the globe to help drive the next arc of Stripe’s growth.
What you’ll do
In this role, you will be directly responsible for partnering with senior stakeholders to identify, attract, assess, and hire individuals for leadership roles across the company.
Responsibilities
- Strategically partner with executives to hire top talent for Stripe’s highest priority engineering leadership roles
- Define, design, and implement recruiting processes and search engagements for a variety of senior leadership roles. This includes understanding and mapping the talent landscape, internal calibration and referrals, and matching those data points with the external talent supply
- Manage end-to-end leadership-level searches from inception of candidate contact to onboarding, including research, outreach strategies, candidate experience, negotiations, partnering with HR for successful onboarding, and communicating with stakeholders along the way
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners, such as People Partners, Compensation, and Business Leads, to align hiring goals with business needs
- Develop competency-based interviews that surface a candidate’s full range of capabilities, explore their aspirations, and gain insight into how their experience will apply to a leadership role at Stripe
- Foster trust-based relationships with candidates, gaining a close understanding of their requirements and concerns. Serve as a skilled problem solver, facilitator and coach in final negotiations
- Utilize team-wide systems and tools to capture current market, client, and candidate information to facilitate both the search process and market intelligence initiatives
- Contribute to a team that values creative ideas and constant improvement.
- Be a contributing member of the recruiting team that effectively embodies and promotes the culture and values of Stripe. A quick guide to Stripe’s culture is located here
Who you are
We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Minimum requirements
- 10+ years proven executive search experience within the technology industry
- Proven experience in identifying, engaging, and closing senior-level passive candidates
- Outstanding sourcing skills and ability to think ‘outside the box.’
- Experience partnering with team and hiring managers, including the executive team.
- Prior use of talent market insights and data to influence decisions within the leadership groups and cross-functional teams
- Demonstrated track record of building working relationships with leaders and cross-functional partners - we value a Users First approach to executive search, ensuring a positive experience for candidates and hiring managers alike.
- Evidence of creating and maintaining positive candidate experiences
- Ability to distill complex information into a consumable and organized format with a focus on content, tone, and structure - we value Craft and Beauty across all of our outputs.
- Ability to take ownership and effectively manage time and process across roles
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in both search firms and in-house
Best personality fits for this role
You excel at strategic planning and are methodical in mapping talent landscapes, which is critical for defining search engagements.
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