Executive Talent Acquisition Lead, US Market

Role Overview

The Executive Talent Acquisition Lead is a strategic individual contributor responsible exclusively for leading Director-level recruitment across the United States and Canada. This role partners closely with senior business leaders to deliver exceptional talent outcomes for strategic, high-priority and highly visible positions that are critical to organizational success.

The successful candidate will manage multiple concurrent searches while providing consultative guidance, market insights, and a best-in-class candidate and stakeholder experience. This role requires a strong service orientation, exceptional relationship management skills, and a disciplined, process-driven approach to executive recruiting whilst maintaining our candidate and leader experience at the heart of what we do.

Responsibilities

Roles & Responsibilities

As the team member solely dedicated to leading end-to-end recruitment for Director-level and executive positions across North America, this role needs an experienced recruiter who can respond to a demanding workload across and client base.

The role includes but is not exclusive to:

• Managing end-to-end multiple simultaneous, high-priority requisitions while maintaining quality, speed, attention to detail and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Serve as a trusted talent advisor to senior leaders, providing guidance on hiring strategies, market conditions, talent availability, and competitive intelligence.
• Develop and execute proactive sourcing and talent attraction strategies to identify and engage top executive talent whilst assessing and evaluate, executive talent against leadership competencies, business requirements, and cultural fit.
• Build strong partnerships with executive stakeholders, Human Resources partners, and business leaders to understand talent needs and align recruitment strategies with organizational objectives.
• Drive a high-touch, high-quality candidate experience throughout the recruitment lifecycle.
• Facilitate and coordinate complex interview processes involving multiple senior stakeholders.
• Maintain regular communication with stakeholders, providing transparent updates, managing expectations, and mitigating hiring risks.
• Ensure adherence to recruitment processes, governance requirements, compliance standards, and service level expectations.
• Leverage recruitment data, market intelligence, and talent insights to influence hiring decisions and continuously improve outcomes.
• Build and maintain executive talent pipelines for current and future business needs.
• Represent Talent Acquisition as a strategic partner committed to delivering exceptional service and business results.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 15 years of progressive experience in senior-level recruitment, executive search, retained search, headhunting, or Talent Acquisition environments.
• Experience partnering with business leaders in the United States and a strong understanding of U.S. talent markets and recruitment practices.
• Demonstrated success recruiting Director-level, executive, and other highly specialized leadership positions.
• Experience navigating highly complex matrix environments, managing high-visibility searches with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities across all business areas.
• Proven ability to simultaneously manage multiple requisitions while delivering against quality, speed, and experience expectations.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build credibility and trust with senior leaders and executives.
• Fluency in English, with exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong sourcing, networking, assessment, and executive candidate engagement capabilities.
• Highly process-oriented with a demonstrated ability to drive consistency, governance, and operational excellence working to SLAs and CSAT expectations.
• Customer-focused mindset with a strong commitment to service, responsiveness, and relationship building.
• Passion for Talent Acquisition and a genuine interest in identifying, attracting, and securing exceptional talent.
• Experience working in fast-paced, matrixed, geographically dispersed organizations is preferred.
• Experience working through robust ATS is a must, ideally Success Factors and/or Smart Recruiters.