# Senior Executive Recruiter - Hivemind (R6523) **Company**: Shield AI **Location**: Remote **Work arrangement**: remote **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: USD 159,000-238,000 per-year-salary **Category**: Human Resources **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/56aaf005-96b7-4490-9fa8-8dbf1cebfa23?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/senior-executive-recruiter-hivemind-r6523-0e834870-aa7/ ## Description We are seeking an intellectually curious, learning-agile, and strategic Senior Executive Recruiter to identify and attract exceptional leaders who will help shape Shield AI's future. As a fast-growing defense technology company, our hiring priorities evolve quickly, requiring adaptability, sound judgment, and the ability to navigate ambiguity while delivering results. ### Responsibilities - Independently manage complex executive and senior leadership searches from intake and position scoping through market mapping, assessment, offer negotiation, and acceptance. - Partner with senior leaders to define role requirements, success profiles, assessment criteria, search strategies, and hiring milestones. - Identify, engage, and cultivate relationships with high-caliber passive executive talent across aerospace and defense, AI, autonomy, robotics, software, and adjacent enterprise technology markets. - Build targeted executive talent pipelines supporting immediate and anticipated leadership hiring needs. - Execute searches across highly specialized software engineering disciplines, including Autonomy, Robotics, Perception, Planning, Controls, Embedded Software, Distributed Systems, Simulation, Machine Learning, Infrastructure, and related technical domains. - Anticipate search challenges, adjust strategies, and maintain accountability for hiring outcomes. ### Executive Stakeholder Partnership - Serve as a trusted advisor to senior business leaders, hiring managers, and PX Business Partners across assigned functions. - Provide consultative guidance on talent availability, market dynamics, compensation expectations, and competitive positioning. - Establish consistent communication and reporting cadences to maintain stakeholder alignment, transparency, and accountability. - Influence hiring decisions through market intelligence, candidate insights, and evidence-based recommendations. - Proactively manage expectations, resolve obstacles, and navigate competing priorities constructively. ### Executive Assessment & Candidate Experience - Conduct comprehensive executive assessments evaluating technical expertise, leadership capabilities, business impact, and alignment with Shield AI's mission and values. - Apply structured interviews, competency frameworks, and assessment tools to support informed hiring decisions. - Deliver clear, balanced candidate evaluations highlighting strengths, development areas, and potential risks. - Partner with interview teams to drive consistent candidate calibration and effective selection decisions. - Deliver an exceptional candidate experience while building long-term relationships with executive talent. ### Market Intelligence & Talent Mapping - Develop deep knowledge of executive talent markets across autonomy, robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, embedded software, and related software engineering disciplines. - Partner with Global Talent Sourcing to execute targeted market mapping, competitive research, and candidate identification strategies. - Provide actionable insights on talent availability, organizational structures, compensation trends, and competitive hiring practices. - Leverage recruiting technology, research tools, and analytics to improve sourcing effectiveness, candidate engagement, and search outcomes. ### Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement - Execute searches using established executive recruiting processes, assessment methodologies, tools, and templates. - Maintain accurate, timely candidate and pipeline information in applicant tracking and recruiting systems. - Track and communicate search metrics, including pipeline health, candidate conversion, search velocity, and hiring outcomes. - Identify opportunities to improve recruiting efficiency, assessment quality, and stakeholder and candidate experience. - Contribute executive search expertise and best practices to strengthen team processes and execution. - Collaborate with Talent Sourcing, Recruiting Operations, Total Rewards, PX, and business stakeholders to achieve shared hiring objectives. ### Leverage AI to Raise the Bar - Integrate AI and automation into recruiting workflows to improve speed, quality, and effectiveness throughout the executive search lifecycle. - Apply AI to talent research, market mapping, sourcing strategy, intake preparation, candidate engagement, interview preparation, and recruiting analytics. - Identify repetitive or low-value activities that can be automated, creating more capacity for strategic partnership, candidate relationships, and assessment. - Experiment with emerging AI tools, evaluate their impact, and share successful practices across Talent Acquisition. - Exercise sound judgment regarding where human expertise, discretion, relationship-building, and decision-making remain essential. ### Teamwork & Collaboration - Build trusted, collaborative relationships across Talent Acquisition, People Experience, Total Rewards, and business leadership. - Share market intelligence, candidate insights, and executive search best practices to strengthen team effectiveness. - Demonstrate humility, openness to feedback, and respect for diverse perspectives. - Contribute to broader recruiting priorities while maintaining ownership and accountability for assigned searches. For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - Executive Recruiting - Talent Acquisition - Leadership Development - Autonomy - Robotics - Artificial Intelligence - Machine Learning - Software Engineering ### Nice to have - Experience recruiting executives within high-growth, mission-driven technology organizations - Familiarity with executive compensation, equity programs, and complex offer negotiations --- Source: [Apply at jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/56aaf005-96b7-4490-9fa8-8dbf1cebfa23?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)