Executive Recruiter
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- End-to-End Recruitment: Own and drive the entire executive recruitment lifecycle, from initial strategy meeting to candidate offer and closing, ensuring a seamless and high-touch experience for all executive candidates.
- Market Mapping & Sourcing: Develop sophisticated, data-driven market maps of executive talent in relevant industries (e.g., autonomous technology, automotive, software, hardware engineering, operations, finance).
- Candidate Engagement: Articulate the Zoox mission, vision, and unique culture compellingly to high-profile executive candidates, often involving complex compensation, negotiation, and relocation strategies.
- Confidentiality & Discretion: Handle extremely sensitive and confidential candidate information and internal organizational details with the utmost professionalism and discretion.
- Partnering with Leadership: Serve as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to the CEO, C-suite, and other senior leaders on talent planning, and executive hiring best practices.
- Process Improvement: Drive continuous improvement in executive search processes, leveraging tools, metrics, and interview methodologies.
- Passive Candidate Conversion: Develop and execute tailored strategies to attract and successfully engage highly passive, hard-to-reach executive candidates, effectively converting passive interest into active candidacy.
- Experience: 8+ years of recruiting experience, with at least 3-5 years focused on senior level searches
- Domain Expertise: Proven experience recruiting executive talent in a highly technical and/or rapidly scaling environment (e.g., hardware, software, AI/ML, autonomous systems, high-growth tech).
- Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence and present to C-level executives.
- Negotiation: Expert-level negotiation and closing skills, particularly for complex executive compensation packages.
- Executive Sourcing & Talent Mapping: Demonstrated expertise in proactive candidate sourcing, including developing and maintaining complex talent maps and pipelines for future leadership needs.
- Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Interest in the autonomous and electric vehicle industry
- Expertise in leveraging ATS (we use Lever) to build metrics, sourcing strategies, and talent pipelines
- This role will report out of our Foster City, CA office in a hybrid capacity (minimum of 3 days onsite)
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