Principal Executive Search Recruiter (Contract)

Micron Technology•Idaho - Remote, ID

About The Position

Micron Technology is seeking an accomplished Principal Executive Search Recruiter for its Global Executive Search team. This is a contract opportunity intended to provide a pathway to a regular full-time position for a successful incumbent, subject to demonstrated performance, continued business need, required approvals, and applicable employment processes. The recruiter will personally lead complex, confidential, end-to-end searches for senior leaders and distinguished technical talent, while helping build Micron’s internal executive search capability. The role combines executive research, market intelligence, sourcing, candidate assessment and engagement, and advisory partnership with senior leaders. Searches span leadership levels and technical and business functions across the global semiconductor and technology ecosystem. The recruiter will develop search strategies and talent-market perspectives, identify and engage passive candidates, advise hiring leaders, and guide candidates through assessment, interviews, offer negotiation, closing, and transition. The position also contributes to proactive leadership pipelines, reusable research practices, talent maps, and search methodologies. Approved AI and talent intelligence capabilities are used to enhance research and sourcing while maintaining human judgment, accountability, and disciplined data quality. The role requires significant progressive executive search or recruiting experience, a record of personally leading successful senior-level searches, deep hands-on research and sourcing expertise, and experience recruiting in a technically sophisticated global industry. Micron describes benefits including medical, dental and vision plans, income-protection programs, paid family leave, paid time off, and paid holidays.

Requirements

Significant progressive experience in executive search, executive recruiting, talent intelligence, or senior-level talent acquisition.
A demonstrated track record of personally leading successful in-house executive searches at the Senior Director, Vice President, C-suite, Fellow/Senior Fellow, or comparable level.
Deep hands-on expertise in executive research, direct sourcing, market mapping, passive-candidate engagement, assessment, and closing.
Demonstrated recruiting success in semiconductors, hardware, advanced manufacturing, AI, cloud infrastructure, engineering, or another technically sophisticated global industry.
Ability to understand complex business and technical requirements and translate them into differentiated search strategies.
Experience partnering directly with senior executives and influencing hiring strategy through market intelligence and sound judgment.
Exceptional written and verbal communication, executive-level storytelling, candidate presentation, and stakeholder management capabilities.
Strong executive presence, curiosity, humility, urgency, and a highly responsive approach.
Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships with senior passive candidates.
Experience managing highly sensitive and confidential executive searches with discretion.
Ability to succeed in a fast-moving, highly matrixed, global environment.
Advanced proficiency with executive sourcing platforms, professional networks, talent databases, research tools, ATS/CRM systems, and contemporary recruiting technology.

Nice To Haves

Experience combining in-house corporate executive search with retained executive search, an executive search boutique, or another research-intensive search environment.
Direct executive search experience within semiconductors, memory, storage, silicon, engineering, manufacturing, advanced packaging, AI infrastructure, or adjacent technology sectors.
Experience recruiting both senior business executives and distinguished technical leaders.
Advanced expertise in talent mapping, organizational research, competitive intelligence, succession pipelines, and executive talent landscapes.
Experience supporting global and cross-border executive searches.
Experience navigating sophisticated executive compensation, equity, relocation, and offer considerations.
Demonstrated use of generative AI and talent intelligence technologies to improve the speed, reach, and quality of executive search.

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end searches for senior leadership and distinguished technical talent, from search strategy through successful close.
Partner with executive hiring leaders, People leaders, and HR partners to understand business strategy, organizational context, leadership challenges, and future capability requirements.
Develop search strategies, success profiles, target-market hypotheses, candidate archetypes, and engagement plans.
Identify relevant industries, organizations, functions, geographies, leadership profiles, and adjacent talent markets.
Manage multiple complex and confidential assignments with quality, responsiveness, discretion, and candidate care.
Conduct executive research across semiconductor, technology, and adjacent industries; build company, organizational, and talent maps.
Assess leaders’ scope, accomplishments, technical or functional depth, organizational influence, and trajectory.
Develop evidence-based market intelligence on talent availability, competitive dynamics, talent adjacencies, and search challenges.
Create proactive pipelines for critical leadership and technical talent and preserve market intelligence for future searches.
Use professional networks, referrals, Boolean search, original research, talent platforms, competitive intelligence, public information, and other approved resources to find candidates.
Engage passive senior talent through personalized outreach and build long-term relationships with executives, referrals, prospects, and future succession candidates.
Advise senior leaders on talent markets, candidate availability, profile tradeoffs, search feasibility, and alternative strategies.
Lead calibration discussions and provide executive-ready search updates, market landscapes, candidate insights, and recommendations.
Manage confidential searches and sensitive succession, organizational, compensation, and candidate matters with discretion.
Conduct substantive executive conversations and assess leadership accomplishments, business impact, transformation experience, organizational scale, functional or technical depth, enterprise influence, leadership approach, and motivation.
Prepare candidate briefs covering relevant experience, strengths, potential concerns, open questions, and motivation; distinguish verified evidence from unverified information and recruiter observations.
Support structured, consistent, job-relevant candidate assessment and decision-making with hiring leaders.
Provide a personalized, discreet, responsive candidate experience and prepare candidates and hiring leaders for substantive conversations.
Guide candidates through compensation, equity, relocation, timing, career-risk, and other decision considerations; coordinate with relevant internal stakeholders.
Use approved AI and talent intelligence capabilities to support research, mapping, talent discovery, profile synthesis, outreach, market analysis, and reporting.
Identify automation opportunities, maintain data quality and candidate documentation, and develop reusable research practices, search methodologies, talent maps, and knowledge.