Principal Executive Recruiter

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About the role

  • Principal Executive Recruiter leading VP-level and senior leadership searches for GitLab, an intelligent DevSecOps orchestration platform. Advising executives and shaping research-driven executive recruiting practices.

Responsibilities

  • Lead VP-level and other senior leadership searches end to end, from search strategy and market mapping through assessment, selection, and closing
  • Advise C-suite executives and senior business leaders on hiring decisions, challenge assumptions, and navigate complex stakeholder dynamics
  • Develop talent strategies using market mapping, competitive intelligence, creative sourcing, and recruiting data
  • Build relationships with passive executive talent and connect opportunities to GitLab’s mission and business priorities
  • Partner with hiring leaders to define success profiles, assess executive capabilities and business impact, and guide evidence-based hiring decisions
  • Own executive candidate relationships and deliver a high-touch experience through compensation discussions, competing opportunities, and negotiations
  • Manage multiple confidential, business-critical searches with discretion while balancing urgency, quality, stakeholder alignment, and candidate experience
  • Collaborate with Talent Acquisition leadership and executive recruiting peers to improve search frameworks, assessment practices, reporting, and tools

Requirements

  • Experience independently leading 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 functions such as Sales, People, Legal, Finance, or other corporate teams
  • Ability to build trusted relationships with C-suite executives, influence senior stakeholders, and provide candid, evidence-based guidance on hiring decisions
  • 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
  • Ability to manage multiple high-priority searches independently and work through ambiguity
  • Experience in high-growth technology or enterprise software organizations, global executive searches, and distributed organizations is helpful

Benefits

  • Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
  • Flexible Paid Time Off
  • Team Member Resource Groups
  • Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Growth and Development Fund
  • Parental Leave

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$184,800 - $314,400 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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