Senior Executive Recruiter (AI)

Location: Remote

Salary: USD 159,000–238,000 per year, plus bonus, benefits, and equity for full-time regular employees.

Company

hirify.global is a venture-backed defense-tech company developing intelligent systems, including Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and simulation and synthetic reality technologies.

What you will do

• Independently manage complex executive and senior leadership searches from intake and position scoping through market mapping, assessment, offer negotiation, and acceptance.
• Partner with senior leaders, People Experience Business Partners, and Talent Acquisition colleagues to define role requirements, search strategies, assessment criteria, and hiring milestones.
• Identify, engage, assess, and cultivate senior technical executives across autonomy, robotics, AI, machine learning, embedded software, distributed systems, simulation, infrastructure, aerospace, defense, and adjacent technology markets.
• Advise stakeholders on talent availability, market dynamics, compensation expectations, competitive positioning, and candidate insights.
• Maintain executive pipelines, recruiting metrics, candidate records, and communication cadences while managing multiple searches.
• Apply AI, automation, research tools, recruiting analytics, structured interviews, and competency frameworks to improve search effectiveness and candidate experience.

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.
• Strong executive sourcing, market mapping, passive candidate engagement, executive assessment, structured interviewing, and competency-based assessment skills.
• Ability to build credibility, advise, and influence senior hiring stakeholders, with strong business acumen, executive presence, communication, negotiation, and relationship-management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple complex searches while maintaining quality, execution standards, and candidate experience.
• Proficiency with applicant tracking systems, candidate relationship management platforms, and recruiting analytics tools.

Nice to have

• Executive recruiting experience in high-growth, mission-driven technology organizations.
• Familiarity with executive compensation, equity programs, and complex offer negotiations.
• Experience operating in global or matrixed organizations and partnering with executive search firms or external research providers.
• Experience building diverse executive talent pipelines and supporting equitable hiring practices.
• Understanding of organizational dynamics and technical leadership structures.
• Ability to bring structure to ambiguity and remain collaborative, adaptable, personable, and calm under pressure.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote full-time employee role within a fast-growing, mission-driven defense technology company.
• Values include integrity, sound judgment, transparency, accountability, servant leadership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Full-time regular employees receive pay within the listed range, bonus, benefits, and equity.
• Offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
• hirify.global is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and provides accommodations for disabilities or special needs.