Senior Leadership Recruiter

Stripe
Seattle, WA
On-site

Who this role is best for

Candidates with executive search experience in technology and a focus on leadership roles will find this strategic and creative role at Stripe's Leadership Recruiting Team.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 10+ years of executive search experience in tech and a strong track record of closing passive senior-level candidates
    — “10+ years proven executive search experience within the technology industry
  • Individuals who can manage end-to-end leadership searches and prioritize positive candidate experiences
    — “Evidence of creating and maintaining positive candidate experiences
  • Candidates who can synthesize complex data into clear formats and align hiring with business objectives
    — “Ability to distill complex information into a consumable and organized format

Things to consider

  • The role demands direct engagement with executives and leadership teams across the company
    — “partnering with senior stakeholders to identify, attract, assess, and hire individuals for leadership roles
  • Candidates must be able to manage multiple roles and maintain ownership of the search process
    — “Ability to take ownership and effectively manage time and process across roles

How to stand out

  • Highlight your experience in both search firms and in-house recruitment settings
    — “Experience in both search firms and in-house
  • Emphasize your ability to design and implement tailored recruiting processes for leadership roles
    — “Define, design, and implement recruiting processes and search engagements for a variety of senior leadership roles
  • Showcase your skill in creating competency-based interviews that reveal leadership potential
    — “Develop competency-based interviews that surface a candidate’s full range of capabilities
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • 10+ years of executive search experience within the technology industry
Typical background
Recruiting experience in technology or software industry

Skills & requirements

Required

Executive Search ExperienceSourcing SkillsCandidate ExperienceCompetency-based InterviewsRecruiting Processes

Preferred

Search Firm ExperienceIn-house Recruiting ExperienceAI Integration In Recruiting

Stack & domain

Executive SearchRecruiting ProcessesSearch EngagementsCandidate ExperienceNegotiationsOnboardingMarket InsightsData AnalysisProven Track RecordSelf-motivatedHigh-ownership MindsetConsultative SellingValue-based Selling

About the role

Original posting from Stripe

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Businesses of all sizes—from new startups to public companies like Amazon and Salesforce—use our software to accept online payments and run technically sophisticated financial operations in more than 100 countries. By helping businesses accept payments from anywhere in the world and accelerating the economic shift from offline to online, we aim to increase the GDP of the internet.

About the team

Stripe’s Leadership Recruiting Team (LRT) is a high-performing group of strategic and creative problem solvers. We are passionate about finding and hiring the very best leaders and experts from around the globe to help drive the next arc of Stripe’s growth.  

What you’ll do

In this role, you will be directly responsible for partnering with senior stakeholders to identify, attract, assess, and hire individuals for leadership roles across the company.

Responsibilities

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. This includes 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. 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. A quick guide to Stripe’s culture is located here

Who you are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum 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 - we value a Users First approach to executive search, ensuring a positive experience for candidates and hiring managers alike.

Evidence of creating and maintaining positive candidate experiences

Ability to distill complex information into a consumable and organized format with a focus on content, tone, and structure - we value Craft and Beauty across all of our outputs.

Ability to take ownership and effectively manage time and process across roles

Preferred qualifications

Experience in both search firms and in-house

Source: Stripe careers

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