Executive Recruiter

Infoblox•Tacoma, WA

4d•$122,000 - $170,000•Remote

About The Position

Infoblox is hiring an Executive Recruiter for its Talent Acquisition team, based in Tacoma, Washington, or remotely within the United States. Reporting to the Vice President, Talent Acquisition, this role leads confidential, full-cycle executive searches for Senior Director, VP, and SVP-level positions. The recruiter partners with executive leadership, hiring managers, HR business partners, and cross-functional stakeholders to identify and hire leaders who advance the company’s business strategy and culture. The role provides talent-market counsel, delivers a thoughtful candidate experience, and uses data, approved AI-enabled tools, and sound judgment to support efficient, high-quality hiring outcomes. The position works across corporate, go-to-market, product, engineering, and other business functions. It includes developing sourcing strategies and diverse executive pipelines, evaluating leadership talent, advising stakeholders on market conditions and compensation considerations, coordinating interviews and offers, and helping build scalable executive-search practices while maintaining confidentiality and human oversight of AI-enabled workflows.

Requirements

12+ years of progressive executive search or corporate Talent Acquisition experience, including meaningful experience leading Senior Director, VP, and SVP-level searches.
Demonstrated success managing confidential, complex searches in a high-growth, multinational technology, cybersecurity, or SaaS environment.
Experience recruiting across multiple functions, including Engineering, Product, GTM, and G&A, with understanding of organizational structures, leadership capabilities, business models, and role-specific outcomes.
Strong executive presence and ability to build trust, influence senior stakeholders, challenge assumptions constructively, and provide clear talent-market counsel.
Expertise in executive sourcing, research, market mapping, passive-talent engagement, relationship development, and high-touch candidate management.
Ability to assess leadership talent through structured, evidence-based interviews and consistent, job-related evaluation criteria.
Experience using applicant tracking systems, executive-search workflows, recruiting analytics, and talent-intelligence platforms.
Ability to use approved AI and automation tools for research, analysis, productivity, documentation, and content creation while maintaining confidentiality, accuracy, privacy safeguards, and human oversight.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, sound judgment, discretion, attention to detail, and ability to manage competing priorities independently.
Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Psychology, Communications, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience explaining and delivering private-equity packages is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead confidential, full-cycle executive searches from intake through offer and onboarding handoff.
Partner with executive leaders and hiring managers to define role outcomes, leadership competencies, organizational context, search strategy, and evaluation criteria.
Build internal executive-search capability and reduce agency reliance through hands-on sourcing, candidate engagement, and consistent search practices.
Develop targeted research and sourcing strategies using direct outreach, executive networks, referrals, professional associations, internal talent, and appropriate search partners.
Build and maintain high-quality, diverse pipelines for Senior Director, VP, and SVP-level positions across corporate, go-to-market, product, engineering, and other business functions.
Assess executive talent through structured, competency-based conversations aligned with role outcomes, leadership expectations, and Infoblox values.
Prepare candidate profiles, interview briefs, gap analyses, and decision-support materials for hiring leaders and interview teams.
Use approved AI-enabled tools for executive-search research, market mapping, candidate documentation, and stakeholder decision support while protecting confidentiality and applying human judgment.
Advise stakeholders on talent-market conditions, candidate availability, compensation considerations, competitive positioning, and search risks.
Manage executive candidate relationships with discretion, timely communication, and a high-touch, inclusive experience.
Coordinate interview planning, feedback collection, debriefs, references, assessments, and offer processes with Talent Acquisition Operations and People teams.
Build trusted partnerships with executive leaders, hiring managers, HR business partners, and Talent Acquisition stakeholders.
Establish consistent intake, calibration, search-strategy, and candidate-evaluation practices.
Use market intelligence, recruiting analytics, and approved AI-enabled workflows to improve research quality, search efficiency, documentation, and stakeholder decision support.
Identify opportunities to strengthen executive candidate experience, interview readiness, debrief practices, and leadership-search processes.
Influence leadership hiring strategy through actionable market insight, organizational context, and evidence-based recommendations.
Improve scalable executive-search practices, including responsible use of AI and automation.
Share knowledge, mentor recruiting colleagues, and raise team capability through consistent executive-search standards and best practices.