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Senior Executive Recruiter

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🔥 3 minutes ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🎯 Recruiter

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Shield AI

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2015

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🚀 Aerospace

🎖️ Defense

Artificial Intelligence • Aerospace • Defense

Shield AI is a leading developer of AI-driven military solutions, focusing on enhancing mission autonomy and battlefield awareness. Their platform, Hivemind, enables rapid deployment of intelligent systems for various defense applications, including drone operation and surveillance. With a commitment to utilizing advanced technology, Shield AI aims to protect service members and civilians by revolutionizing defense technologies through autonomous systems.

📋 Description

• Lead complex senior leadership searches across Shield AI's Hivemind Autonomous Software business • Own the full executive search lifecycle from intake and market mapping through candidate assessment, offer negotiation, and close • Partner with senior leaders to define role requirements, success profiles, assessment criteria, search strategies, and hiring milestones • Identify, engage, and cultivate passive executive talent across aerospace and defense, AI, autonomy, robotics, software, and adjacent technology markets • Build targeted executive talent pipelines for immediate and anticipated leadership hiring needs • Advise senior leaders, hiring managers, and People Experience Business Partners on talent availability, market dynamics, compensation expectations, and competitive positioning • Establish communication and reporting cadences to maintain stakeholder alignment and accountability • Conduct executive assessments covering technical expertise, leadership capabilities, business impact, and mission and values alignment • Apply structured interviews, competency frameworks, and assessment tools • Deliver candidate evaluations and support candidate calibration and selection decisions • Develop executive talent-market knowledge and partner with Global Talent Sourcing on market mapping and competitive research • Provide insights on talent availability, organizational structures, compensation trends, and competitive hiring practices • Maintain candidate and pipeline information in applicant tracking and recruiting systems • Track and communicate pipeline, conversion, search velocity, and hiring-outcome metrics • Improve recruiting efficiency, assessment quality, stakeholder experience, and candidate experience • Integrate AI and automation into research, market mapping, sourcing, intake preparation, candidate engagement, interview preparation, and recruiting analytics • Experiment with emerging AI tools and share successful practices across Talent Acquisition • Collaborate with Talent Sourcing, Recruiting Operations, Total Rewards, People Experience, and business stakeholders • Share market intelligence, candidate insights, and executive search best practices

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant professional experience • 8+ years of progressive executive recruiting or search experience, including independently managing complex senior leadership searches • Experience recruiting VP+ and other senior technical executives across Autonomy, Robotics, Perception, Planning, Controls, Embedded Software, Distributed Systems, Simulation, Machine Learning, Infrastructure, or related software engineering disciplines • Experience recruiting senior technical leaders within aerospace, defense, artificial intelligence, autonomy, software engineering, or related technology industries • Ability to translate complex technical requirements into actionable recruiting and sourcing strategies across specialized software engineering disciplines • Strong executive sourcing, market mapping, passive candidate engagement, and assessment capabilities • Ability to build credibility, advise, and influence senior-level hiring stakeholders • Strong business acumen, executive presence, communication, negotiation, and relationship-management skills • Experience applying structured executive assessments and competency-based interviewing methodologies • Ability to manage multiple complex searches simultaneously while maintaining quality, execution, and candidate experience • Proficiency with applicant tracking systems, candidate relationship management platforms, and recruiting analytics tools • Preferred: experience recruiting executives within high-growth, mission-driven technology organizations • Preferred: familiarity with executive compensation, equity programs, and complex offer negotiations • Preferred: experience operating within global or matrixed organizations • Preferred: ability to build diverse executive talent pipelines and support equitable hiring practices • Preferred: experience partnering with executive search firms and external research providers • Preferred: understanding of organizational dynamics and technical leadership structures • Preferred: ability to bring structure to ambiguity and thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments • Must be authorized to work in the United States • Must be able to contribute in support of the U.S. military and allied forces

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus • Benefits • Equity • Temporary benefits package applicable after 60 days of employment for temporary employees • Full-time regular employee offer package includes pay within range listed, bonus, benefits, and equity • Equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer • Reasonable accommodations available for disabilities or special needs

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