Executive Recruiter (Remote)

Role Overview

This position is designed to tackle the most difficult hiring challenges that conventional approaches often cannot resolve—such as positions requiring a unique mix of skills in limited locations or ones with pay and onsite requirements that restrict candidate availability. You'll be the sole individual responsible for solving these complex searches, handling conflicting stakeholder demands, and reestablishing faith in skills-based hiring through well-documented processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Successfully close challenging job requisitions involving scarce talent, exceptions to hiring processes, or previously unsuccessful searches.
• Facilitate alignment among executive stakeholders with varying or conflicting hiring criteria and rebuild trust in hiring processes.
• Identify and address systemic recruitment issues, such as ineffective assessments, drifting AI grading rules, or misdirected job advertisements.
• Rapidly develop custom technological solutions using tools like Claude Code and low-code platforms, subsequently collaborating with engineering to implement scalable fixes.
• Deliver actionable analyses on candidate pipelines, compensation benchmarks, and market sizing within short turnaround times.
• Manage incomplete or ambiguous recruitment inquiries, follow through on open commitments, and maintain ownership until resolution.

What This Role Does Not Include

• Routine resume screening or conducting initial interviews.
• Dependence on stakeholder-initiated status requests.
• Team or headcount management responsibilities.
• Repetitive creation of temporary workarounds for recruitment challenges.
• Allowing non-compliant or risky hiring requests to proceed unchallenged.
• Operating within highly supervised environments or requiring detailed procedural guidance.

Required Qualifications

• At least 8 years' experience in recruitment, talent acquisition, or executive search, with recent focus on challenging or executive-level roles.
• Demonstrated track record of managing difficult searches end-to-end without predefined playbooks.
• Experience closing positions previously failed by others through innovative approaches.
• Direct collaboration with executive decision-makers, maintaining documented stances in case of disagreements.
• Capability to develop or modify hiring assessments using outcome data rather than solely administering pre-existing ones.
• Proficient daily user of AI-related tools with demonstrable outputs created within the last three months, including building custom tools or workflows.
• Skilled in producing compensation benchmarking and market analysis for executive consumption.
• Awareness of US hiring compliance concerning pay bands, worker classification, and pay transparency.
• Experience creating documents used organization-wide like SOPs, process guides, or post-mortem analyses.
• Availability for at least 6 hours daily overlapping US business hours.

Preferred Additional Experience

• Repeatedly refining recruitment systems based on performance and retention data rather than single implementation efforts.
• Background in talent acquisition within private equity, venture-backed companies, or diverse business holdings.
• Trusted resource for other recruiters needing assistance with difficult searches.

Company Overview

The company pioneered remote work since 2014, offering long-term full-time remote positions rather than temporary gigs, focusing hiring decisions 90% on objective skills assessments. It supports global applicants with consistent and competitive compensation regardless of location.

Work Terms and Compensation

This is a long-term, full-time independent contractor position requiring 40 hours weekly. Compensation is $100 USD per hour, equivalent to approximately $200,000 USD annually assuming 50 weeks of work. Payments are made weekly. Immediate availability is expected.