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Senior Leadership Recruiter

Stripe Seattle, Washington senior full-time

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Description

Job Overview

As a Senior Leadership Recruiter at Stripe, you will play a crucial role in identifying, attracting, assessing, and hiring top talent for leadership roles across the company.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with senior stakeholders to identify, attract, assess, and hire individuals for leadership roles across the company.
  • 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, including 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, and 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.

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.
  • Evidence of creating and maintaining positive candidate experiences.
  • Ability to distill complex information into a consumable and organized format.
  • Ability to take ownership and effectively manage time and process across roles.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in both search firms and in-house.

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • search firms
  • in-house recruitment

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