Principal Executive Recruiter

Location: Remote in Canada or the United States

Base salary: USD 184,800–314,400 annually; the stated range applies to United States residents only.

Company

hirify.global provides an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps that helps organizations improve developer productivity, operational efficiency, security, compliance, and digital transformation.

What you will do

• Lead VP-level and senior leadership searches end to end, from strategy and market mapping through assessment, selection, and closing.
• Advise C-suite executives and senior business leaders, challenge assumptions, and guide evidence-based hiring decisions.
• Develop talent strategies using competitive intelligence, creative sourcing, recruiting data, and executive market research.
• Build relationships with passive executive candidates and manage high-touch candidate experiences, including compensation discussions and negotiations.
• Manage multiple confidential, business-critical searches with discretion while balancing urgency, quality, stakeholder alignment, and candidate experience.
• Improve executive recruiting frameworks, assessment practices, reporting, methodologies, processes, and tools with Talent Acquisition leadership and peers.

Requirements

• Independently led VP-level and senior executive searches through successful hires in an executive search firm, an in-house executive recruiting function, or both.
• Executive recruiting experience across Sales, People, Legal, Finance, or other corporate functions, with the ability to learn new domains.
• Ability to build trusted relationships with C-suite executives, influence senior stakeholders, and provide candid, evidence-based hiring guidance.
• Skills in talent research, market mapping, creative sourcing, leadership assessment, and engaging and closing passive executive talent.
• Business judgment, communication, and negotiation skills for sensitive searches, complex compensation discussions, and competing executive priorities.
• Experience developing or improving executive search methodologies, frameworks, and processes while maintaining speed and flexibility.
• Hands-on ability to manage multiple high-priority searches independently and work through ambiguity.
• Remote eligibility is limited to Canada or the United States.

Nice to have

• Experience in high-growth technology or enterprise software organizations.
• Experience with global executive searches and distributed organizations.

Culture & Benefits

• Globally distributed, remote-first Talent Acquisition team focused on clear communication, reliable follow-through, ownership, speed with quality, and customer outcomes.
• All team members are expected to use AI as a core productivity multiplier in daily workflows.
• Health, financial, and well-being benefits, flexible paid time off, parental leave, and equity compensation with an employee stock purchase plan.
• Team Member Resource Groups and a Growth and Development Fund.
• Full-time employment with location-based eligibility determined during the recruiting process.