Senior Leadership Recruiter

Stripe • Chicago, IL

4d

About The Position

Stripe’s Leadership Recruiting Team is a high-performing group of strategic and creative problem solvers focused on finding and hiring exceptional leaders and experts worldwide. The Senior Leadership Recruiter partners directly with senior stakeholders to identify, attract, assess, and hire people for leadership roles across the company. The role manages searches from initial candidate contact through onboarding, works closely with executives and cross-functional partners, and contributes to recruiting practices, market intelligence, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• 10+ years of proven executive search experience.
• Proven experience identifying, engaging, and closing senior-level passive candidates.
• Outstanding sourcing skills and ability to think outside the box.
• Experience partnering with teams and hiring managers, including executive teams.
• Experience using talent market insights and data to influence decisions within leadership groups and cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated ability to build working relationships with leaders and cross-functional partners.
• Commitment to a positive experience for candidates and hiring managers.
• Evidence of creating and maintaining positive candidate experiences.
• Ability to distill complex information into a clear, organized format, with attention to content, tone, and structure.
• Ability to take ownership and effectively manage time and processes across roles.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in both search firms and in-house recruiting.

Responsibilities

• Strategically partner with executives to hire top talent for Stripe’s highest-priority leadership roles.
• Define, design, and implement recruiting processes and search engagements for a variety of senior leadership roles, including mapping talent landscapes, internal calibration and referrals, and assessing external talent supply.
• Manage end-to-end leadership searches from initial candidate contact through onboarding, including research, outreach strategies, candidate experience, negotiations, coordination with HR for onboarding, and stakeholder communications.
• Collaborate with People Partners, Compensation, Business Leads, and other cross-functional partners to align hiring goals with business needs.
• Develop competency-based interviews that assess candidates’ capabilities and aspirations and how their experience applies to leadership roles at Stripe.
• Build trust-based candidate relationships, understand candidates’ requirements and concerns, and serve as a problem solver, facilitator, and coach during final negotiations.
• Use team-wide systems and tools to capture market, client, and candidate information to support searches and market intelligence initiatives.
• Contribute creative ideas and support continuous improvement within the team.
• Promote Stripe’s culture and values as a member of the recruiting team.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed