Principal Recruiter (Remote)

Position Overview

We created this role specifically to address the most challenging hiring requisitions that typically remain unresolved — searches requiring rare skill combinations, difficult location constraints, or compensation that isn't top-tier. Instead of letting these openings linger, you will single-handedly tackle them without a predefined playbook or team support. Your mission is to discover unconventional approaches to source candidates where others have failed.

Key Duties

• Resolving the toughest hiring requests including those involving limited talent pools, unusual processes, or conflicting stakeholder demands.
• Facilitating alignment among executive stakeholders with varying priorities and restoring confidence in a skills-first hiring approach.
• Diagnosing and improving broken hiring systems like ineffective assessments, outdated AI grading rules, or misdirected job postings.
• Developing quick, innovative point solutions using AI and automation tools such as Claude Code, Skills, Lovable, and Model Context Protocol servers, then collaborating with engineering to scale these tools.
• Producing actionable pipeline analyses, compensation benchmarking, and market sizing promptly for executive decision-making.
• Managing incomplete inquiries and maintaining accountability over all open commitments until resolution.

Exclusions

• Screening resumes or conducting initial interviews.
• Proactively providing status updates to stakeholders.
• Supervising teams or managing headcount.
• Rebuilding repetitive workaround solutions.
• Allowing non-compliant or risky hiring requests to proceed unchallenged.
• Operating under tight supervision or step-by-step instructions.

Candidate Profile

• At least 8 years of experience in recruiting, talent acquisition, or executive search, with a strong focus on highly challenging or executive-level roles.
• Regularly handled difficult-to-fill requisitions from start to finish, not as exceptions.
• Successfully closed searches previously failed by others by designing new approaches rather than following existing playbooks.
• Experience collaborating directly with executives as the accountable owner and substantiating decisions with thorough documentation.
• Involvement in building or updating hiring assessments through outcome data analysis, rather than simply administering existing ones.
• Daily use of AI tools with recent creation of AI-enabled work products using platforms like Claude Code or low-code/agentic workflows.
• Prepared compensation benchmarking and market analysis for senior leadership.
• Responsible for identifying US hiring compliance issues such as wage bands, worker classification, and pay transparency.
• Documented processes, SOPs, or post-mortem analyses used by other team members.
• Must be available for at least 6 hours overlapping US business hours each weekday.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience iterating talent acquisition systems multiple times based on real-world performance and retention data.
• Background in talent acquisition or executive search within private equity, venture-backed companies, or multi-business holdings.
• Recognized as a go-to expert for handling difficult or escalated recruitment cases.

Company Summary

The company is a pioneer of remote work since 2014, specializing in full-time remote careers rather than gig or freelance roles. It prides itself on objective assessment-driven hiring that allows candidates worldwide to earn competitive pay regardless of location.

Additional Details

This is a full-time remote role requiring 40 hours per week, with immediate availability. The employment agreement is as an independent contractor. Compensation is $100 USD per hour, equivalent to $200,000 annually based on 40 hours per week and 50 working weeks per year, paid weekly.