Principal Executive Search Recruiter (Contract)

Description

The company makes memory and storage products that power AI, high-performance computing, data centers, vehicles, phones and edge devices.

It is building out its in-house executive search function to find senior leaders and distinguished technical experts who will shape its future.

This role runs complex senior searches end to end and helps build long-term leadership pipelines and the wider search function.

The work mixes research, market mapping, advising hiring leaders and personally running confidential searches.

Responsibilities

• Lead senior searches from strategy to close for roles such as Director, Senior Director, Vice President, Corporate Vice President, Senior Vice President, Fellow, Senior Fellow and other strategic positions.
• Work with hiring executives, People leaders and HR partners to understand strategy, organizational context, leadership gaps and future skill needs.
• Turn those needs into search strategies, success profiles, market hypotheses, candidate archetypes and engagement plans.
• Map industries, companies, functions, regions, leader profiles and adjacent talent markets.
• Guide candidates through identification, outreach, assessment, interviews, offer talks, closing and transition.
• Manage several complex, confidential assignments at once with high quality, responsiveness and discretion.
• Research the semiconductor and technology ecosystem in depth, including memory, storage, silicon, AI infrastructure, manufacturing, advanced packaging, equipment, materials, cloud and systems.
• Build company, organization and talent maps, and look past titles to judge a leader's scope, results, depth and influence.
• Produce evidence-based market intelligence on talent supply, competitive dynamics, adjacent talent and likely search obstacles.
• Build proactive pipelines for critical leaders ahead of demand, and record market knowledge so future searches move faster.
• Source talent through referrals, professional networks, advanced Boolean search, original research, talent platforms and public information, including adjacent industries, alumni, startups and supplier and customer networks.
• Contact passive senior candidates with personal, credible outreach grounded in their actual work.
• Keep long-term relationships with future candidates who are not ready to move yet.
• Advise senior leaders on talent markets, competition, candidate availability, trade-offs and search feasibility, challenging assumptions when the evidence points elsewhere.
• Lead calibration discussions that separate essential leadership capabilities from preferences.
• Deliver clear, executive-ready updates, market landscapes, candidate insights and recommendations.
• Handle confidential searches, succession matters, reorganizations and pay information with careful judgment.
• Hold substantive executive conversations on accomplishments, business impact, transformation, scale, technical depth, influence, leadership style and motivation.
• Write candidate briefs covering experience, strengths, concerns, open questions and motivation, separating verified facts, candidate-provided information, your observations and points still to validate.
• Support hiring leaders in structured, consistent, job-relevant assessment and decisions.
• Give candidates a personal, discreet experience, explaining the opportunity, strategy, technology, leadership and culture, and preparing them for senior conversations.
• Manage pay, equity, relocation, timing and career risk with Executive Compensation, HR, Global Mobility, Legal and executive support teams.
• Use approved AI and talent intelligence tools to speed research, mapping, sourcing, profile synthesis, outreach and reporting, while keeping human judgment and accountability.
• Keep candidate and market data accurate, and help build reusable search methods and knowledge.

Requirements

• Required: substantial, progressive experience in executive search, executive recruiting, talent intelligence or senior talent acquisition.
• Required: a proven record of personally running in-house executive searches at Senior Director, Vice President, C-suite, Fellow or Senior Fellow level, or a comparable level.
• Required: hands-on depth in executive research, direct sourcing, market mapping, passive candidate engagement, assessment and closing.
• Required: success recruiting in semiconductors, hardware, advanced manufacturing, AI, cloud infrastructure, engineering or another technically complex global industry.
• Required: the ability to grasp complex business and technical needs and turn them into distinct search strategies.
• Required: experience working directly with senior executives and shaping hiring strategy through market insight and sound judgment.
• Required: excellent written and spoken communication, executive storytelling, candidate presentation and stakeholder management.
• Required: strong executive presence, plus curiosity, humility, urgency and a responsive approach.
• Required: a proven ability to build trust with senior passive candidates.
• Required: experience running highly sensitive, confidential searches with discretion.
• Required: the ability to succeed in a fast-moving, highly matrixed, global environment.
• Required: advanced skill with executive sourcing platforms, professional networks, talent databases, research tools, ATS/CRM systems and modern recruiting technology.
• Highly preferred: experience combining in-house corporate search with retained search, boutique search or another research-intensive search setting.
• Highly preferred: direct executive search experience in semiconductors, memory, storage, silicon, engineering, manufacturing, advanced packaging, AI infrastructure or adjacent technology sectors.
• Highly preferred: experience recruiting both senior business executives and distinguished technical leaders.
• Highly preferred: advanced skill in talent mapping, organizational research, competitive intelligence, succession pipelines and executive talent landscapes.
• Highly preferred: experience supporting global and cross-border searches.
• Highly preferred: experience handling complex executive pay, equity, relocation and offer considerations.
• Highly preferred: proven use of generative AI and talent intelligence tools to improve the speed, reach and quality of executive search.

Conditions

This is a contract role intended as a route to a regular full-time position for a successful contractor, subject to demonstrated performance, continued business need, required approvals and applicable employment processes.

To learn about your right to work, check the right-to-work information on the company's careers website.

For US sites, accommodation requests and application help go to the company's People Organization.

The company prohibits child labor, complies with applicable labor laws, and does not charge candidates recruitment fees.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision plans in every location, so you can choose the coverage that suits your family and budget.
• Income protection for periods when illness or injury stops you from working.
• Paid family leave.
• A generous paid time-off program and paid holidays.
• Full benefit details are in the Benefits Guide on the company's careers site.