- We are looking for a Leadership Recruiter, where you’ll partner directly with executives and senior leaders to identify and hire exceptional leadership talent across the company
- You’ll operate as an internal executive search partner, owning searches from profile development and deep market research and mapping through candidate engagement, assessment, and close
- You’ll develop a strong point of view on where the best talent sits, identify both obvious and non-obvious candidate pools, and use market intelligence to help leadership continuously calibrate what great looks like
- Own end-to-end searches for leadership roles across the company, with a focus on Director, VP, and executive-level hiring
- Partner directly with executives and hiring leaders to translate business needs into clear leadership profiles, competencies, and search strategies
- Lead the research and market-mapping strategy for each search, developing a comprehensive view of the relevant talent landscape before and throughout execution
- Build detailed target-company ecosystems, identifying companies based on stage, scale, business model, functional maturity, growth trajectory, and other factors relevant to the search
- Map leadership teams and organizational structures within target companies to identify the individuals who own the relevant scope, as well as high-potential leaders operating one level below
- Use research to identify non-obvious and adjacent talent pools, rather than relying solely on obvious competitors, titles, or previously known candidates
- Develop and continuously refine hypotheses around where the strongest talent is likely to sit, using candidate conversations and market intelligence to improve the search
- Translate research into actionable market insights for hiring executives, including talent availability, compensation, organizational structures, candidate patterns, and potential tradeoffs
- Proactively identify and engage passive leadership candidates through thoughtful, highly personalized outreach and relationship building
- Conduct substantive candidate conversations that assess leadership trajectory, scope, impact, motivations, and alignment with the opportunity
- Serve as a trusted advisor to hiring executives throughout the search, providing market intelligence, candidate calibration, and recommendations rather than simply facilitating the process
- Design and drive disciplined search processes, including kickoff, research strategy, market mapping, candidate development, interview strategy, references, compensation discussions, and closing
- Maintain a high bar for candidate experience and discretion, particularly for confidential or highly sensitive searches
- Build long-term relationships with exceptional leaders who may become relevant to the company over time
Benefits
- Health insurance: Enjoy top-notch health, dental, and vision insurance. Your health matters
- Unlimited PTO: Assume responsibility for how much time you take off. Trust is everything
- Competitive 401k: Leverage a Peregrine-sponsored 401k plan. And think of your future
- Wellness stipend: Use Peregrine’s wellness stipend to focus your body and mind
- HSA: Set aside money to pay for qualified medical expenses with a HSA
- Parental leave: Because we want to support the Peregrine parents out there
- Professional development: Access a range of professional development courses and resources
- Recreational perks: Enjoy a whole host of travel and leisure discounts, and explore new things- A highly proactive approach: you systematically build the market rather than waiting for candidates to appear
- 6+ years of recruiting, executive search, or executive talent research experience, with meaningful exposure to leadership hiring
- Strong candidate assessment skills and the ability to distinguish scope, trajectory, and leadership impact from title or company pedigree
- Demonstrated experience owning or materially contributing to searches for Director, VP, and/or C-level leaders
- Strong judgment and discretion when handling confidential searches and sensitive organizational information
- In-house leadership/executive recruiting within a high-growth technology company
- Experience in one or both of the following environments:
- Ability to synthesize large amounts of market information into a clear point of view and communicate that perspective to senior stakeholders
- Exceptional research and market-mapping capabilities, with demonstrated experience building leadership talent markets from scratch
- Executive search, ideally supporting venture-backed, growth-stage, or technology companies; or
- Experience partnering directly with executives and senior hiring leaders
- Strong investigative instincts and intellectual curiosity; you enjoy figuring out where talent sits and finding people who aren’t immediately obvious
- Ability to develop sophisticated target-company strategies based on company stage, scale, business model, growth trajectory, organizational maturity, and functional relevance
- Experience researching organizational structures and identifying the actual scope and reporting relationships of executives and senior leaders—not simply searching by title