Head of Executive Recruiting

Hybrid

Posted about 3 years ago

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Zoox is seeking an impactful and visionary Head of Executive Recruiting to architect and scale our in-house executive search capabilities. Operating as a strategic player-coach and trusted advisor to leadership, you will engineer the executive recruiting strategy and infrastructure, personally lead high-impact Director+ searches, and manage a dedicated team to deliver our most mission-critical hiring needs.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will...

Leadership: Design and scale a world-class executive search function, including managing/coaching a small team, development of internal executive research capabilities and long-term succession planning.

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.

Hands-on Executive Search: While leading the function and team, remain actively involved in the full-cycle execution of high-priority, mission-critical searches, personally driving candidate generation, engagement, and closing for select senior-level roles.

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, Co-Founder, 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.

Location

This role will report out of our Foster City, CA office in a hybrid capacity (minimum of 3 days onsite).

Requirements

Qualifications

Experience: 8+ years of experience with executive searches (Director+) and 15+ total recruiting experience.

Technical 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).

Leadership: Successful multi-year track record as a player-coach, managing small team/direct reports.

Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence and present to C-level executives.

Closing: Expert-level negotiation and closing skills, particularly for complex executive compensation packages.

Executive Sourcing & Talent Mapping: Providing real-time competitive intelligence and talent benchmarking to the executive team, identifying shifts in the talent landscapes that may necessitate pivots.

Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

Bonus Qualifications

Experience at a retained executive search firm focused on technology.

Interest in the autonomous and electric vehicle industry.

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Posted on: Aug 1, 2023
Job type: Full-time
Location: Foster City, CAHybrid

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