Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. East 57th Street Partners is seeking a Senior Recruiter to join their Executive Search team, responsible for managing full-cycle searches for senior roles. The role involves partnering with executive leadership, conducting candidate assessments, and advising on market conditions while maintaining confidentiality and professionalism.
Responsibilities
- Lead full-cycle executive search for C-suite roles (CEO, CFO, COO, CTO, CHRO, CMO, and equivalent) as well as Board of Directors and advisory appointments
- Partner with executive stakeholders and hiring committees to define role scope, success profiles, and search strategy
- Build and execute proactive sourcing strategies, market maps, and competitive talent intelligence for senior and board-level searches
- Manage sensitive, confidential relationships with executive and board candidates with a high degree of discretion and professionalism
- Conduct in-depth candidate assessments, structured interviews, and reference and background checks appropriate to senior appointments
- Advise leadership on market conditions, compensation benchmarks, diversity slates, and talent trends at the executive level
- Guide candidates and stakeholders through offer negotiation, close, and onboarding transition for senior hires
- Maintain accurate search documentation, pipelines, and reporting within the applicant tracking system
- Represent the organization's employer brand and value proposition to senior external talent
Skills
- Demonstrated success recruiting for C-suite roles; direct experience with Board of Directors searches strongly preferred
- Proven ability to run confidential, high-stakes searches and to build trust with senior executives and board members
- Strong sourcing, market-mapping, and talent-intelligence capabilities for hard-to-fill senior roles
- Excellent stakeholder management, consultative advisory, and executive communication skills
- Sound judgment, discretion, and comfort operating with ambiguity and shifting priorities
- Experience with applicant tracking systems and modern sourcing tools
- Based in the Dallas–Fort Worth, Austin, or Houston metro area, and able to travel to DFW quarterly
- Experience within a retained executive search firm or a corporate executive search / talent function
- Track record of building diverse candidate slates at the senior and board level
- Familiarity with executive compensation structures and governance considerations for board appointments
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